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Opinion
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McCue's View
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Editorial
Ford's remark
leaves bad taste
Sean Ford thinks Dr. Greg Wuliger—a
tenured member of the journalism
department— makes "jackass" statements,
or at least that's what he said during the
last AS meeting. Besides being irrelevant
tome discussion on the senate floor at
that time. Ford's comment demonstrates
his ability to speak slightingly of others,
especially when they aren't present. The
nobility and courage it took to make that
accusation cannot be questioned.
Absolutely none of the above was
involved.
Ford made his mot. vation clear—he
claims that Wuliger told AS President
Mark Astone to "control his senators."
Ford said Ik objected to the implication
that he was a child and promptly
responded by labeling Wuliger as a hybrid
member of the animal kingdom—a very
adult response on his part.
Wuliger said that Ford's paraphrase
doesn't accurately reflect his onguiaJ
comment.
Last week, when Ford met with
Journalism Deparunent Chair Mr. James
Tucker to discuss the issue of whether or
not the department would be willing to
oversee the Collegian, Wuliger questioned
the wisdom of milking the department "a
lightning bolt for stupid, asinine and
idiotic attacks of the kind made on Joe
Rosato and Judy House (members of the
Media Council)" during the fraternity
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Ford responded Monday with a phone
call to Wuliger, telling him his statement
was "a really asshole kind of thing to
say." Wuliger then hung up on him
seeing that, "the conversation had no
future." Ford's diplomatic and tactical
skills are evident at this poinL
Wuliger, however, is not disturbed by
Ford's remarks. "What has Sean Ford
accomplished with his life that would lead
me to take that seriously?"
Indeed, what has Sean Ford
accomplished that would lead anyone to
take him seriously? It is a simple thing
to stoop to name-calling. Perhaps Senator
Ford would do better to address Dr.
Wuliger in person instead of flinging mud
behind his back.
Ford needs to stop using the AS as a
personal battleground. As a senator-al-
large. his responsibility is to represent
the students who voted him in to the best
of his ability. It is certainly not in the
best interest of his constituents to carry
out an undeclared war between himself,
the Collegian, and members of the
journalism department.
Student government has come to a sad
pass when freedom of expression is
viewed as a privilege of the empowered
and not the right of the individual. Mr.
Ford, expect those you deal with to treat
you as you treat them. The only jackass
on campus is the one who bee haws first.
by Berke Breathed
(WW.
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Editorial
Trimming the fat
cuts to the quick
We at The Daily Collegian are bving
off the fat of the Associated Students.
Trim the fat," says AS President Mark
Astone.
We at The Daily Collegian should not
complain about the long hours of work
we put in. "Find a job in the real world. I
doubt that you [Collegian employees]
could," says Senator-at-Large Sean Ford.
We at The Daily Collegian are bad
business people. "You expect to fail if
your paper is made independent," says
Senator Dean Gualco.
So Mark Astone proposed a budget that
he thought would "trim the fat." Maybe
some senators really thought there was fat
to OIL
But there is no fat to trim at The Daily
Collegian. The AS has gone straight for
the jugular. They have, in effect, shut
down this newspaper because of either
their lack of research or their need for
In simple terms, they have slashed the
salaries of Daily Collegian employees to
such a level that only a fool would spend
their semester working to put out a
newspaper.
Now we must reven to a newspaper
run by fools who are willing to be the
puppet of the AS or face the prospect of
no daily newspaper at all. Or, a
newspaper open to only those people
with piles of money stashed away.
The staff of this newspaper works
extremely hard and takes great pride in the
publication. We are not in it for the
iioney.
We work here because we love
journalism. We work here because we
hope to gain experience that will help us
when we enter the "real world." We work
here because we Like the people. But we
don't work here for the money.
Indeed, we work here despite the
money. Most Collegian editors currently
make $310 a month before taxes. To
some senators, this may sound like an
excessive sum. They obviously have no
idea of the work it takes to put out a daily
newspaper.
Keep in mind that it is not possible to
work as an editor al this newspaper and
hold another job at the same time without
causing great damage to the newspaper
quality. In order to do an adequate job, an
editor must be present at the newspaper at
least 40 hours each week. At times, an
editor will find he or she has spent 70
hours in the Collegian office in a single
week-
Simple arithmetic says we could make
more money working full-time at
McDonald's. While Senator Ford may
disagree, McDonald's would not hesitate
to hire most members of our newspaper
staff.
Thai's hartfly "Uving off the fat" of the
AS.
But even though we aren't in it for the
money, we still need to eat occasionally.
The current AS proposal would cut the
salaries of Collegian editors to $275 per
month At that rate of pay, a quick survey
of the newspaper office shows absolutely
no one on this staff would continue to
work at this newspaper.
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The idea of making the Daily
Collegian independent from the AS is a
good one—it would keep a situation such
as we have right now from ever occurring
again.
But Astone attempted to shove a
preposterous, unresearched, page-and-a-
quarter plan to make the Collegian
independent through the senate during the
second-to-last senate meeting. Most
senators didn't tall for that. Then he
presented an incredibly low-ball budget
for next year.
The few senators that didn't fall for that
did their best to hammer out a
compromise, but the lowballing tactic
worked in the end: The Daily Collegian
was allocated less than one-half of Lhe
money it was allocated last year at this
lime.
"Sell more ads," they said. Then they
cut our advertising representatives'
commissions from 15 to 12 percent.
"Take this paycut," they said. Then
they said that our staff would be cut (in
other words, work more for less).
They may as well have not funded us at
all.
The AS did not "trim the fat" from the
Collegian budget. They cut out the heart.
The Daily Collegian
JoAnn Baltau - Editor in Chief
Lisa Kim Bach - Managing Editor
Tracy Correa - News Editor
Anna Daza - Copy Editor
Sharon Kuan - Ad Manager
Kenny Low - Business Manager
Jon Matsune - Sports Editor
Kurt Hegre - Photo Editor
Richard McCue - Staff Artist
Rob Evans - Graphics Editor
Susie Tombs - Ad Production Mgr.
Jeff Markarian - Asst. Business Mgr.
T. James Madison - Entertainment Editor
Staff Writers- Jana Lee Briscoe, Christopher Dougan, Dina Douglass,
Barry Grove, Lois Henry, Kendall Kerr, MaryannMilligan, Linh Nguyen,
Diane Oleson, Angela Valdivia, Jennifer Whiteley
Sports Writers - Steve Fountain, Lee Passmore, Jim Proulx, Brian Veneski
Photographers - Mark Mirko, Akemi Miyama, Lane Turner
Advertising Reps - Eric Anderson, Jeff Bauman, Roderick Chow, Tony
Martin, Dave Spencer
Circulation - Bill Lerch Distribution - Steve Fountain
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