Letters

I want to thank you for once again proving that your publication lacks both journalistic integrity and newsworthy information. On page 22 of your Feb. 9 publication, you chose to make fun of my preference for the movie, "Dead Poets Society." You say that I was " sounding [sic] off as incoherently as possible on [my] gladstone account about 'Dead Poets Society', [my] pick for the best film of all time" (actually in your quote you wrote Dead "Poet's" Society, which is wrong, "Poets" does not have an apostrophe... great research guys!). Regardless of that little fact, there are two points that I wanted to get across.

First, the brilliant person who wrote that comment said that it was my pick for the best film of all time. HELLO... is anyone home? Why don't you try reading my quote again. I said, "I think this is the best movie every made [sic] by Williams", [sic] not "the best film of all time." Did you guys even bother reading my webpage? And besides, there are a million more ridiculous things about my page that you could have made fun of. However, I think that we both know that the reason you made fun of me had nothing to do with my taste in movies, but with the fact that I am a former Emerald employee. How's that for integrity?

Second, I wanted to remind you that if you decide to print your mission statement you should probably abide by it. In it you write " We [sic] believe that a code of honor, integrity, pride and rationality are the fundamental characteristics for individual success." I wasn't going to say anything about it, but last year you STOLE a picture off the Emerald website taken by yours truly. It was for some story about "tree huggers" saying goodbye to a tree the city was going to cut down. Don't you think that it takes a whole lot of integrity and honor to steal a photo and break numerous copyright laws in the process?

Way to go, and keep up the great work.

Scott Barnett
Former Photo Editor
Oregon Daily Emerald

I do not giver [sic] permission to print this letter unless it remains intact and unabridged.

Whatever you say, Scott. Thanks for the constructive criticism, and keep on reading!

-Ed.

Dear OC,

Kudos to the Oregon Commentator for setting Associate Law Professor Robin Morris Collins straight. I too have not seen any concentration camps in, near or around the Eugene/Springfield area. Lastly, if you are going to plaster asses all over the spew pages, make 'em pretty ones.

Gil Burgess III
College of Business, Finance

You know, when we get mail like this, sometimes we start to wonder if not everyone at the UO is a mindless drone. You know, every once in awhile.

-Ed.