Hackel claims Quad obsolete

Hackel claims Quad obsolete

letter to the editor

Letter to the editor critiquing the Quad's current reporting practices in regards to current events in America and issues on campus.

Stu Hackel

Quad Angles

West Chester University

February 12, 1974

Jacquelynne Conyers-Jordan

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Campus paper To the Editor: So. Quad Angles is dying. Your editorial to that effect gave a very puzzled account of the situation and only ventured to say that the death will be due to lack of student interest. In your editorial cartoon next to the article you imply IGA's budget cuts might be responsible. But are these really the basic reasons? When you way that "There seems to be no core of dedicated staff to carry on the tradition of the student press at West Hackel claims Quad obsolete Chester," you should examine that tradition. Few of us have been here for the 40 years of West Chester student newspapers: But if that tradition has been to turn out the dull, dreary, banal, pointless, and uninteresting journalism we have been subjected to this year, then let that tradition die. It is wrong to say the students are to blame. You can't expect students to be excited about a newspaper that is not exciting. It is not the students who are apathetic, but your newspaper. In a time of such deep crises in the fabric of our entire society (such as the "energy crisis," Watergate, and the economic crisis), you have chosen to virtually ignore the situation where you could have explained, enlightened, and instructed students on how these events affect them. You have ignored the activities of Black students on this campus — next week is Black History Week but not one article appears about the events surrounding it. You have refused to take an editorial stand on the impeachment of the President; a president who has made life very difficult for most everyone — including American students. His policies have made the economy so shaky that all levels of education and student activities are in jeopardy. You might say that these topics are not the responsibility of your paper — that there are professional papers for this purpose. But what better organ than Quad Angles to explain the effects of these conditions from the unique perspective of students? Instead of challenging the crises on campus and in the nation, you have backed off. Even you admitted "in a way, perhaps it is the staff of the newspaper itself which has done Quad Angles in." You are obsolete and if you don't change you deserve to die. Stu Hackel 5 February 12, 1974 QUAD ANGLES