An item appeared in last week’s Clarion that I feel compelled to jump back into the shoes of an editorialist and make a comment about.
The senators of the university seemed to think that it was very important to comment upon a feature that also ran last week, wherein reporters asked senate if they wanted a Boone icon or not.
The last time I wrote about the Boone issue, some of you will recall that I felt the entire discussion was a waste of time and that we shouldn’t be devoting any more resources to the arguably unimportant issue of what cartoon sketch to stick on our banners at hockey games.
The response to that article was mostly negative, accusing me of being pointless and a windbag. It is with a sad heart that I realize that nobody is prepared to jump on this particular bandwagon with me and so I may as well weigh in on the discussion despite the fact that it makes me want to bash my head against the wall until blood comes out.
The senators quoted in last week’s article seem not to quite understand the fervor with which people cling to this discussion. That’s a frustration I understand since I also hadn’t realized the degree to which idiots refuse to be swayed from a pointless discussion.
The point here, then, is that despite what would be the case in an idealized world, the people are interested in the Boone discussion and so that’s what the Clarion reports on.
The people have spoken. They’ve clearly said that they’re not going to shut up about this and having the newspaper of the campus ignore the issue isn’t going to make it go away – it’s just going to convince readers that their student journalists don’t care about what they care about.
You know, kind of like the way they think their student government will only raise their activity fee and spend it on events they won’t be invited to. Oh, sorry, did I get some of my truth on your shoes?
One quote interested me a lot: “…we believe that the sole purpose of the Clarion’s actions is to be divisive and controversial.” The attitude here seems to be that the sole point is to cause trouble across the campus, to encourage strife, unhappiness and rioting in the streets. In addition, some senators seem to think that people will vote based only upon a candidate’s preference for Boone.
I may not hold the highest opinion of the people carrying on this foolish crusade, but saying that people are stupid enough to actually make their decision based on someone’s desire to have a Boone icon by their picture or not is one of the most ridiculous things I’ve heard in a long time, and it’s a major insult to voters, right up there with stealing someone’s bookbag and then beating them unconscious with it.
I try to keep these pieces from becoming personal in any way, but I have to take a minute to express my real displeasure with Dillon Doyle, who refused to make an actual statement for the editorials page and direct readers to his blog instead.
Congratulations, Mr. Doyle, for not only managing to make yourself look like a fool but also for what looks like a thinly veiled attempt to drive up readership for your blog. Class-A work, bud.
The question is still with me – what’s wrong with you people, and when will you allow this god forsaken argument with no foreseeable resolution in sight to just die?
