Oh boy. Here we go again.  Letter from Ted O\u27Meara, Vice President of the University Student Government defending the position of the Student Senate on the Wilde-Stein club

O\u27Meara, Ted

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University of Maine

The University of Maine DigitalCommons@UMaine Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Special Collections 2-12-1974 Campus editorial damned Ted O'Meara University of Maine Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/social_justice  Part of the Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Commons, Higher Education Commons, and the United States History Commons Repository Citation O'Meara, Ted, "Campus editorial damned" (1974). Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion. 455. https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/social_justice/455 This Letter to the Editor is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@UMaine. It has been accepted for inclusion in Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@UMaine. For more information, please contact um.library.technical.services@maine.edu. Campo editorial damned vmn: the pm1n ., all tht 1rn ·hut It t\ thl· en 1rc .. cl 111 ll'd 1f \ 1•11 d" <I. mr:crl !f ' •II 11 •n t a ti1111I • ·I lhl· c.,,.,"'" .... gt tt 1111-: 1,1 bl· .1 lit 1,· bit h rd to ta c cann t '" <'rnnu·nt ha'> t:\t l lfort to tr at ut> ., f irl a~ tud nt Go ernment admini -trat ion vr th' Maine Campu . ou a "the i nature · on the dotted line . .. Ye , the opinion and vote of all coat rs re public re rd. Ma be it would be a good ide if the authors of your edit rial ign d their n me und r ea h pie e th y write. nu mp re tudent Go-ernm nt to certain Maine Republicans. Perhaps the same analogy can be made between the Maine CamJ"'S and William Loeb's Mane/t ester Union-leader. That paper also tries to ram its sanctimoaiou views down its readers' throats . Perhaps the Moi.M <Aurtpu editors and their counterparts in New Hampshire are grown in the same garden, fertilized by the same self-righteous bullshit, and harvested by the same loppy journalistic machine. I hope not. deplore the economu: hhJ kmail that cert in members of the Maine Legislature are trying to u e on the university but I also deplore the self-righteous attitudes that Campus readers arc so often subjected to. There are many scriou.s problems with lasting implications facing this univCT-sity today. I would hope that in th futur we can w r 111)0( thcr intr)ingto 11 cth· cpr bl m'> in le d of Ming valuabl time and on un •nding "Mc ra M 1uctent tl\ Cmment Yo ur cfo tm t hut HuJc n1 J!"' t•rnn 1•11 1 hu\ trt•uff•J the \.\ t!Jt 1•'111 Cluh 111 th1• <;um mu1111cr u' uli\' tJth• r \/Urlt•11 t ~rn11111 'ul'nu11 11n "' /ale · "ht• 1 u. \lu<Jrrrt ,s:111·1·n1mc111 11u111J 11 11 /rt•.• 111 111 n ~"'Y to • n11 r he Pun IJ 1d Prt•.,,. H ·ral ro pu /null\ Jt\dutm ~1 1• 111_£ "'"'H 1· t • '' .\tudent uroup ? Yet. ell " le ta t ,,,,c n1111g th l! W 1/J,· · 1, 111 /u h uprear d in tht• Gun 1•1 />aper m•er y our name u l'fd 1ud!'11! J!UY •mmen! wit·. /1hou1: h tht• fc (l e r as publi hed ujier tire e11at 1·oted IO gfrc I 10 the Wilde- tem /uh · · and I understand it was written IJefor uch action was taken · · when con we expect a /cller corrcctinR tudent Go-v mm 111 " 1xrition. Suell a public Ji claimer indicates the 11rejudiu of the S tudent Government I uder hip which is reflected by 1•ote in the tudent enate. In it eagerness to disa so-ciate it elf from a controversial is s ue. student governm e nt r veal where ils concern really lies -- not with it student body. tudent orRani:.ation or tudent con titucncy. but with it own pri tin PR image · · PR hardly could b uid to stand for public re pon ibilirv Campu ediJorials are igned when tlte wriJer disagrees wit It a majority of tlte editorial staff. We wilW.gly print S11clt dUsa.t. Otlterwise. edilorials '""Y be C011sidered to reflect tlte opini011 of tire nn.1sp11,,a. Obviously, we see not1Un1 WrottB or uaetlUcal U. vrpnsng wlMil u oftat " mU.orily OpUUOIL - Ed. 

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