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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...friend just sent me a copy of your March 7 feature article "Student Journal Ceases to Shock: The Peninsula No Longer Influences," for which I was interviewed by the article's author. Please permit me to correct some of the factual claims and challenge the central thesis of the article...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Calm Before Peninsula's Storm | 3/19/1994 | See Source »

...might expect this sort of thing from Peninsula, with its history of offensive writing. After all, their patron muse is the undisputed king of the obnoxious, Rush Limbaugh. A former Peninsula staff member quoted anonymously in The Crimson said he thought the magazine was often intentionally inflammatory...

Author: By Tehshik P. Yoon, | Title: Beavis Is No Bill Safire | 3/18/1994 | See Source »

...fault of the publications. The Peninsula council recognizer that the only way it can get any attention whatsoever from the liberal campus is by offending it. As an editorialist, I know that people don't read and remember the things you write unless you say something shocking or insulting. For instance, if this editorial were about NAFTA or Bosnia, you would probably glance over the first column, maybe skim the first lines of the remaining paragraphs, and then turn to Dilbert...

Author: By Tehshik P. Yoon, | Title: Beavis Is No Bill Safire | 3/18/1994 | See Source »

...however, this space were occupied instead by a guest commentary written by a Peninsula staff member (hunh hunh hunh...liberals such....), you would be talking about it with your friends over lunch, and a few of you would be outraged enough to write scathing letters to the editors...

Author: By Tehshik P. Yoon, | Title: Beavis Is No Bill Safire | 3/18/1994 | See Source »

...Beavis mentality is incompatible with the purpose of the opinion page, which is to persuade, not to ridicule. Even when reading Peninsula, you shouldn't be looking for the childish and asinine. Instead, you should be reading for reasonable arguments that make you think about substantive issues...

Author: By Tehshik P. Yoon, | Title: Beavis Is No Bill Safire | 3/18/1994 | See Source »

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