There is a box of text in the lower right-hand corner of this page. Yeah, to the right of the list of contributors for this issue and directly below this opinion piece.  My guess is that most people choose not to read this. 

Now, I could be wrong and everyone that reads the Clarion reads that little box with fervor each issue, just to affirm that they do, in fact, read the newspaper front to back and every word in between.

For those of you who choose not to read it, let me summarize.  The first paragraph essentially labels the Clarion as the official University of Denver student publication. It goes on to say which views belong to whom, but the most important part of the first paragraph occurs in the second sentence.

That sentence labels the Clarion “as the voice of the Pioneers.” That includes me, you and every other student here at DU.

Now that we have an understanding, let’s take a look at the second paragraph.  That’s the one that says that the Clarion accepts letters to the editor, provided that they are fewer than 300 words. I think I speak for everyone on staff when I say please feel free to submit however many editorials as you please.

Send them in by the fistful or the truckload; it makes no difference to us. All that I, and the rest of the staff, care about is that you make your opinions, whatever they may be, heard.

Part of being a Pioneer, nay, an American, is expressing your opinions on anything and everything from the administration to national politics.

I will readily admit that I am not nearly a good enough representative of the DU population to continue writing these opinion pieces without some of you, my fellow students, writing in as well.

To those students that wrote in last week, I commend you. That kind of reaction is what I, personally, would like to see  each and every week that the Clarion is published.

I am not writing this as a cheap ploy to get people to write in so that I have less to do. I assure you, I will continue to write every week. I merely ask that you, Pioneers, make your voices heard.