Oregon Voice requests cheese with that whine
Apparently, the folks over at the Oregon Voice are all flustered about our making fun of them in the latest issue. (Apparently, the Oregon Voice also has a blog). Here’s Editor-in-Chief of the OV, Tuula Rebhahn:
I’ve always done fairly well with the philosophy of, “Ignore it; it’ll go away.” […] It works for unwanted attentions on the Indigo District dance floor. It works for the mysterious bruises that appear on my knees after said fun-filled nights at Indigo. But it’s not working for the Oregon Commentator, the illustrious campus “Conservative Journal of Opinion” […] [N]ow, we’ve got a whole page and a half in the new OC issue dedicated us, so here I am.
First, the Indigo District? Lame. Second, they just realized this? C’mon, we’ve been making fun of the OV for, like, fifteen years. Third, we make fun of the Daily Emerald on an almost daily basis; in fact, we make fun of everyone, including ourselves. No need to get butthurt, guys.
The rest of the post criticizes us for being petty, lazy and unoriginal. (Hey, fair enough, but it can be tough sometimes when you decide to put out an issue more than, say, once a term). The final paragraph is pretty funny, though:
The Oregon Commentator […] seems to choose the subjects they rant about from a giant beachball with the words “ASUO”, “liberals”, “how we’d rather be drunk”, “ASUO”, “popular culture”, “something else (limit once per issue)” inscribed on the sides, which they toss up into the air with hateful glee to see which topic their fingers will land on.
Wait, has someone from the OV been spying on our staff meetings?
However, most of the real juicy stuff is locked away in the horrid realms of Facebook. I’m currently in the midst of, as former Ed-in-Chief Ted Niedermeyer described it, an “alcohol/rugby/capitalism/
