Letters to the Editor

From: Paul Gediman
Subject: (Voicemail Transcript)

Hello Justin, this is Paul Gediman. I am the communications director at the Business School. Now I was hoping to have a word with you about the Every Three Weekly and the Business School. Give me a call when you have the chance ***-***-****.

Basically I'm calling to offer a mea culpa for the way the school handled the Every Three Weekly and to let you know what we plan to do and to talk to you about it.

So give me a call, my name again is Paul Gediman and I look forward to speaking to you.

We at the Every Three Weekly are thankful that the Business School has seen the error of their ways. Our staff was skeptical that we would hear so much as a "We're sorry" coming from the administration, but we ended up pleasantly surprised. Our editors are also exceedingly lazy and loathe to think about a single issue over multiple days, so we were amazed at the convenience of your telephone call coming on the same day that the Michigan Daily interviewed both you and our Editor-in-Chief. A very convenient apology for us, indeed. We don't like it when our brains hurt.

As far as your offer of a mea culpa is concerned, I'm afraid we'll have to decline. We've been mulling this over for several days now and we're just not sure what shitting on our chest is going to accomplish. I hope you understand. Besides, no apology is necessary as long as the Every Three Weekly is left where it belongs, right next to all of the other student publications, and undisturbed by the faculty and administration at the B-School.

-The Eds

From: Nicole Thomas
Subject: Objectivity?

I can't express the disappointment I felt when I read your pieces after the passing of Michigan's Proposal 2. It reminded me of the racist and biased journalism from the 1960s. Obviously, you only try to represent a small minority of students, but many whites and blacks considered it offensive and repulsive. Interestingly enough, it it focused solely on the racial aspect of the proposal and not the devastating effect it will have on the women of Michigan. I never thought a piece like this would make it past an educated editor. I guess it didn't.

Nicole Thomas

Nicole is right: not only are at least two of us legally retarded, but we also missed a great chance to expose Proposal 2's harmful effects on women. We can't believe we consider us a real newspaper either. It's like how the Michigan Daily put it: we're nothing but a humor rag, though, in all fairness, it's the Daily that most students end up wiping their ass with.

Regardless, we've taken the opportunity to expose the harmful effects of Proposal 2 on women, and we encourage Nicole, and all those others who felt our coverage incomplete, to view the expose written below.

-The Eds