Editor,
Last week I submitted a letter to you about the lack of sensitivity in the article “Student with flu symptom dies, another freshman hospitalized,” published Nov. 16.
Since then I spoke with the news editor Pat Lohmann and understood some of the difficulties and choices that went into writing that follow-up; more so, I newly learned it was the second of two articles that reported on Plotkin’s death (the first being published online Nov. 13). While I still was stunned by the repressed tone of the second article and believe there may have been a more affectionate, loving or demonstrative manner to write an additional differing report, I am very appreciative of how receptive and amicable Lohmann was to hear me and to discuss the matter with me. In that I gained perspective. Thank you.
Mathilde Walker
UNM student
