Wednesday, September 10, 2003
SOBs
Go Daily Cal! You don't hear that from me, very often, but for once, The Daily Cal is showing some backbone by refusing to sign a "code of ethics" to be approved by the "student body." (read CalSERVE)
But student board members said the code would ease tensions between the paper, and some students and student groups, which have flared in newspaper theft and protests about news coverage and advertisements.
So... because some other people are committing crimes, the newspaper should sign a code of ethics. I remember hearing this... "But the jury suggested that the woman should have worn more modest clothing, as her radical dress led individuals to rape her at every opportunity." Where's Take Back the Night when you need them?
"The code of ethics is the minimal way not to have controversy in the building and to maintain social responsibility," said Graduate Assembly President Jessica Quindel, one of the two students board members barred from voting yesterday.
And we don't want controversy in the building why? There already is controversy in the building. That's what most student groups are there for. And to say that "my particular vision of social responsibility is the right one, and all should conform to it" is ever-so-slightly arrogant.
Student leaders pointed to examples such as an advertisement against slavery reparations for African Americans, a cartoon students said unfairly portrayed Muslims, and coverage of a black football player's arrest last spring.
Paid advertisement by someone with an opinion: BAD! An editorial cartoon which used caricature and hyperbole: BAD! Covering a crime: BAD! Boy, those Daily Cal folks are just so unethical.
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