How Silly
Piedmont changed the name of its school newspaper from the Lion’s Roar to the Navigator to try to get people to take it a little more seriously. But with articles like, “Three Floors of Whores and the Virgin Vault”, and “Why Martin Luther King Day” people are now starting to question the Navigator. In fact a group of students even published a magazine to contradict the paper called the Contrarian. The credibility of the opinion column has been critically damaged. In the January 30th edition of the Navigator, Three Floors of Whores and the Virgin Vault, by Charron Davis graced the front page of the Opinions section. My problem with this article is this, who cares? Rumor spreading belongs out on the Quad, not the newspaper. I realize that this is the opinion section, and everyone has a right to free speech but Davis didn’t even have an opinion about anything he just talked gossip. “I guess all our “hot popular” girls live in Swanson and our “ugly” or “hard to get” girls live in Wallace,” said Davis. The funny thing is I’ve never heard these rumors and neither have my any of my friends. What’s to say Davis didn’t make the whole thing up his self? He never citied or attributed any of the information or quotes he used. Charron summed it up best in his article by saying, “People talk because there is nothing better for them to do.” I guess he didn’t have anything better to write about. Another article caught flak in the Opinion section. Justin Poole’s, “Why Martin Luther King Jr. Day?” outraged a number of people. In this case I might disagree with what Poole had to say, but at least he had an opinion and then backed it up with information. Jesse Thompson wrote her rebuttal in the following issue. Both side were weighed out, this is the point of opinion columns, not to spread gossip.
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