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LETTERS

Stop Printing Crap!!!

By Anonymous

If you want people to read your
paper, why don’t you include
some SUBSTANCE! (and i don’t
mean as in “substances”, and don’t
you dare think that you are being
witty and as a backlash print a
two-page article about all the other
kinds of “substances” that exist)
Instead of using the paper as your
and your staff’s wet dream on
print and writing whatever
you/they may have shat into the

A reply to

First of all, thank you for taking
the time to write to Over the Edge.
Usually we don’t print submis-
sions that come in after the dead-
line, however for you, we’re mak-
ing an exception.

First of all, I'd like to address
your concern that all our letters are
written by the staff. Did you know
that sometimes people do not feel
comfortable signing their name on
a letter to the editor? Well, obvi-
ously you do, since you also felt
uncomfortable signing your name
to you letter, so you must be aware
of this. What we do in these situa-
tions is list the writer as ‘anony-
mous’. This doesn’t mean we
wrote your letter, it just means
we're not printing your name.

Anyhow, it seems you don't like
something about our paper. You
also seem upset about it, and say
we lack any sense of responsible

toilet the night before deadline
without backing anything up with
FACT...why don’t you write about
something that has some kind of
importance to students!? This is
afterall “the official UNBC student
newspaper”, or haven’t you
noticed the letterhead lately? And
if you are going to print this letter
(which i doubt you will), please do
not include your own personal
opinion along side it in the form of
an “anonymous” letter and claim
to be “anonymous”. By doing this

as you have undoubtedly done in
the past, you not only ruin any
kind of credibility that Over the
Edge may be trying to keep but
you also make yourself and your
staff look S-T-U-P-I-D. If you, as
the editor of the paper have an
opinion that you would like to
express, it belongs in an Editorial
section! Or don’t you know. what
that is? It’s called “RESPONSIBLE
JOURNALISM” and this paper, as
for as 1 am concerned lacks it.

“Stop Printing Crap!!!”

journalism, and that the paper is
filled with crap. I ask you to
remember this, one person’s crap
is another’s pair of jewel encrusted
battle shorts (That’s not crap - it’s
Douglas Adams.) The point is,
while you may not think much of
our frivolously fun OTE content as
movie reviews, comics and stories
on local concerts is any good, I bet
the people that drew the comics,
played the shows and are thinking
of seeing the movies think it’s
important.

If you think that the paper is our
‘wet dream’ filled with whatever
we like, well, to an extent you are
right. OTE is completely volunteer
run. Volunteers write all the arti-
cles, take all the pictures and create
all the content. Unfortunately,
since nobody is paid, we try not to
force people to write about things
that are completely boring, unin-

teresting, and of little practical use
to students. Instead we focus on
different, interesting and hopefully
informative articles - like our
recent one on the status of the
English MA program, something a
small, but significant part of the
student body is interested in.

If you feel that OTE’s content is
crap, I bet it’s because you don’t
like the kind of articles we’re run-
ning. So I have a suggestion for
you. Why don’t you come to our
story meeting (every Monday, at
noon) and tell us what you'd like
to see in the paper.

This is your student paper, and
you can complain all you want,
however, things won’t improve if
we don’t get any helpful or infor-
mative criticism.

-Kathleen De Vere,

Editor in Chief