Editor’s note: This is in response to the Daily Lobo’s decision to censor its Wednesday edition in a show of solidarity with the Central New Mexico Community College’s newspaper The Chronicle, which CNM administrators shut down on Tuesday. All Daily Lobo stories for that day ran online, but the paper, with the exception of an explanatory editorial, had nothing but ads and Xs where content would have gone. The Chronicle was reinstated on Wednesday. For details, see “CNM paper back on stands, staff rehired,” published in Thursday’s Daily Lobo.
Editor,
Your decision to support a boycott as a show of solidarity for the CNM paper was a poor choice: You shut down a paper that belongs to the students while not consulting them for how they wanted to handle it. Portions of the CNM Chronicle are not news. They are solicitous, creepy individuals advertising what they like best sexually. I, quite frankly, think this is what the kids would call TMI — too much information. Where the Chronicle was remiss is that it didn’t gauge how that article might make other students feel. I personally don’t wish to sit next to someone who is proudly espousing their desires. I call that kind of behavior uncouth and creepy.
While I cannot control the presses and I feel that you robbed the students of an issue when you could have revamped it and run articles about First Amendment parameters, I personally think you owe the students an issue. Your moves were only blessed by arrogance and the need of self-service, and hence irresponsible toward the school. You might look tough on journalism, but the articles you ran — or in this case, didn’t run — were to get you, Elizabeth Cleary, a feather in your cap. I resent your choice.
Karen DeLeewerk
UNM student
