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anti-greek articles.
As a journalism major and a member of the editorial board, I know what goes into a paper. Out of our editorial staff, 90 percent of us are Greek. The practicum class is at least 70 percent Greek. We still have to print "anti greek" articles, because it is news. We printed 2 stories fall quarter about a fraternity and sorority on our campus being fined and put on probation due to a situation. It's not that we wanted to gossip, it was printed so that people would know the TRUTH, instead of going around saying "Oh I heard xyz is on suspension because they wore their pink catsuits outside on a full moon".
Would it have been better to have NOT heard about this?
The T+C took some heat fall quarter because we printed a story about a student who was arrested for importuning (basically an officer posed as a 12 year old girl who wanted to meet this guy, the student was arrested, later not charged). But people were OUTRAGED that we printed that story. They said we ruined this kid's senior year of college. No, I think he did that himself. We just report the news, good , bad, indifferent. If someone at my chapter burned down a house, I'd still print a story about it, no matter how bad it made us look. Papers can't be all daisies and coutillions, shit happens. Unfortunately for these two orgs, it fell on them.
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