Oregon Voice won’t be the only liberal campus publication
I found your recent article about some Commentator defectors taking over the Oregon Voice incredibly amusing.
First, the decision not to talk to the Commentator about the departed staff members is a small matter that casts a dubious shadow over the accuracy and depth of the Emerald’s report.
More importantly, those taking over the Voice may have slightly misread the journalistic lay of the land at this institution. One member was quoted as saying she was surprised there was no left-leaning journalism on campus. That’s a laugher. We all know that the Emerald fills the role of leftist town crier better than any small, self-promoting pop-culture-sycophant magazine ever could. And what about the poor Insurgent? Isn’t it bad enough they have to live in their own skin, but do they really need to be ignored so rudely by the new OV staff?
In the end, we at the Commentator won’t really care too much about the Voice, except to occasionally point out the absurdity of its very existence and continue to shake our heads at the absurdity of the Emerald’s skewed news print.
 

Bret Jacobson
publisher
Oregon Commentator

Harrington billboard offensive
Perhaps I’m a bit late in sounding off about this, but I find the 100-foot billboard of Joey Harrington at Madison Square Garden obnoxious. I live in New York, and I cringe every time I pass it.
The expenditure seems like yet another way in which the University of Oregon Athletic Department places its football program over every other sport on campus (basketball runs a close second). When was the last time that we spent $250,000 in private donations on the men’s crew, women’s volleyball, or another “non-revenue generating” sport? The fact is, we don’t.
Not only is the ad tacky, it smacks of inappropriateness. Hey, I know, why don’t we send a University of Oregon gift basket to all the Heisman Trophy voters?
 

Kalpana Krishnamurthy
New York, NY
Class of 1997