Mr. FarmerI would like to respond to your editorial, “Where is Student Government?” that appeared in the February 5th edition of the Activist, in which you complained that you knew little about Student Government, its’ accomplishments, the candidates and the election process.
Let me start off with saying that your editorial was an embarrassment to yourself and your paper. You admitted that you knew little about Student Government and its functions, of which I whole heartedly agree with you. However, I am perplexed as to how a so called journalist such as yourself can write a snippet of an article about Student Government’s special elections and follow it up with a behemoth editorial about how much you have no clue as to what you just wrote about. Your comments discredit yourself and your paper by stating that you publish articles in which you fail to research or even harbor a remote knowledge about.
Furthermore, I would say that if you were a true journalist you would have taken the time to seek out the officers of Student Government and ask them personally about the items that you found bewildering, rather than to waste a tree, and more importantly my time, by complaining about your informational deficiencies regarding Student Government. I can only assume that it would have been too much effort on your part for you to meet with the Student Government President or Treasurer, and ask them what their agenda has been for the past year and what they are doing to improve things at Raymond Walters. Again, I can only assume that you are too lazy to research the candidates and report on them thus providing an actual service to the students at Raymond Walters.
Maybe you think your job as a journalist is to criticize rather than inform? Or possibly you think that it is the student’s responsibility to seek out this information on their own, having been inspired by your journalistic brilliance, and report back to you their findings?
In the future, do yourself and the students of Raymond Walters a favor by researching your articles more thoroughly before spewing criticism about something you have no clue about.
Regards,
Mike C. Whitener
Evening Student, Raymond Walters
I respectfully and formally request that my letter be published in the next article of the Activist.