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...when the editorial section of the DN asked what was to stop Jewish students from taking Jewish culture classes and African-Americans from studying African-American culture—much like Korean students can fulfill their FC requirement with “Korean Cultural Identities”— many students responded with angry letters...
...read the letters to the editor section of any campus newspaper, you’re bound to find controversy over news coverage and editorial opinion—the DN is no different. In fact, it is probably often better about avoiding controversy with students and administrators than a certain Cambridge campus daily. But mining for the downsides and mistakes of campus newspapers can hide their real triumphs. At Northwestern, a seven-part series last year highlighted funding gaps in the university’s mental health system, leading administrators to add funding and employees. But though the DN?...
Many of the news stories at the DN are assigned the day before they have to be written. Though the DN’s staff editorials are carefully constructed to represent a consensus opinion, green editorialists are sometimes stuck with the responsibility of putting this consensus on paper. As Elaine Helms, the DN’s managing editor, told me, for every editorial “you have space constraints and the limitations of the people writing the editorials.” It’s true. Campus newspapers are run by students, just like you and me?...
...frenetic environment of campus newspapers like the DN, noble goals like impartiality, exact diction and fully nuanced editorial opinions can sometimes fall by the wayside when the writer has a ten-page paper due the next day. School commitments hurt campus reporting in other ways besides the time constraints they impose, too. Every year the most veteran reporters at every campus newspaper participate in something called “graduation.” And during the year, class takes up the morning and early afternoon of most days, so much of campus reporting is done in the late afternoon when...
...let’s add it all up. Campus newspapers like the DN are staffed by time- and sleep-deprived rotating volunteer students who are charged with producing around ten thousand words of accurate, proofread stories and controversial editorials every day. At four in the morning, when the presses start up, the instant historical registers for campuses across America are frozen in time, errors...