Buying Ink By The Barrel
As Homer once put it: “OK, brain. You don’t like me and I don’t like you. Let’s just get through this so I can get back to killing you with beer.” For this week, at least, the ODE and the OC are liable to be completely simpatico. First salvo here.
Your student leaders are currently abusing their authority over incidental fees in order to settle personal scores with campus journalists — and dismantle your freedom of speech — by simultaneously trying to de-fund the two most visible student publications on campus: the Oregon Commentator and the Oregon Daily Emerald.
Testify. This is also a depressing read.
[Former Senator Sol] Hart said he was also concerned with a lack of viewpoint neutrality in the student government. He said PFC members’ attempt to defund the Oregon Commentator in December unsettled him.
“That bothers me, where it became clear that the PFC was making a decision on mission statements when they didn’t really understand the breadth of the reach or review they can engage in,” he said.
And they still don’t; but what’s new there? If the ODE can come within one vote of being completely defunded, it’s amateur hour on a hitherto unseen scale.
