Word: contentedly
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Last Wednesday, the staff of the Oregon Daily Emerald—the daily newspaper of the University of Oregon—went on strike to protest the dubious decision of its board of directors to hire a publisher with supervisory control over the content of the newspaper. This move was recommended to the board by paid consultant Steven A. Smith. After receiving his sage advice, the board turned around and hired none other than Stephen A. Smith, who had already written his own job description and salary. Since the strike, the board of directors has been continued publishing editions...
...current financial climate, it is difficult for a student newspaper to maintain private funding and complete autonomy over its content. Still, the actions of the board of directors are unacceptable. The board should have negotiated the conditions of the new publisher position with the students. Furthermore, producing a paper without any student content in response to the protest is an insult to the years of work that the Emerald staff has placed into their newspaper...
...pillar of an effective college newspaper, and it is clear that the independence of the Emerald would have been threatened under the arrangement proposed by the board of directors. Though Smith and the board assured the students that the publisher would not make serious changes to the content of the newspaper, giving an outside source complete supervisory control nevertheless places the editorial freedom of the Emerald’s student editors in a precarious position...
...construct the best plan possible, and the lines of communication must remain open. We hope that both parties will consider each other’s positions and devise a strategy that will both salvage the newspaper’s financial situation and, more importantly, protect the independence of its content...
...bizarre minimalist format (“STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE [verb] [clause].” Now repeat that four times.), and it even seems uncertain about its own content ("content is non-specialized and may include essays, interviews, treatises, projects. propositions...”—you get the drift). Sources report it's the brainchild of Sabrina Chou...