Are you kidding me?

[CF Panther]

i dont think the ni currently has an adviser (but i could be wrong). the former adviser retired after last year.

about the war story on the front page... it WAS veteran's day, these speakers WERE at uni's campus today, and, most importantly, I wrote part of that story.

about the letter to the editor not making today's paper, i think they have to be in by wed at noon, so that could be a reason. otherwise, the email must not have been received. they DO print both positive and negative responses to the paper.

and give the newspaper a break. sure, sports is a big deal right now, but it's a student paper run by non-journalism majors. you know where the sports section is... the editors each have a section and are responsible for putting their own sections together so the front page usually contains stories handed out by the news editors.

Nothing against having something on the front about Veteran's Day. However, the article that appeared was an anti-war clip, not a pro-Veteran clip. While I have no problem with those guys being mentioned, that article took up prime real estate in the NI. The NI actually has tag-team writing in which the author(s) do not know what the article will end up being? I'd be careful before I lended my journalistic credibility to many of those...particularly with some of the cut-rate writing going on of late...

[CF Panther]

im out of town so i haven't even read anything.... however, i turned in a story about the speakers in the union. it had nothing to do with anti-war anything, except the speakers would be anti-war. my story was combined with another one, so that part might be anti-war, no clue. (i dont usually read the ni for my news...)

im excited for the game today, ill be decked out in my purple, whether it made the front page of a less-than-stellar student newspaper or not. however, with the exception of talking with my roommates and a fellow pn member on campus, campus really didnt seem that hyped up this week. (now, im a grad student who's friends all left town, so what do i know?)

Not as excited as it maybe should be. However, I have talked with many students who normally dismiss football games and are either going this week or at the least considering it.

[VistaPanther]

Questioning the stated reasons why an administration has entered our nation into a war is equally as patriotic and just as pro-veteran as is not questioning and fully supporting those same reasons.
These are democratic principles and why our troops fight in wars if they must.
These are only parts of why we celebrate our veterans and the sacrifices they made for our freedoms.
Blindly supporting or protesting any executive action solely for partisanship and political belief is hardly a democratic principle and seems to be a scourge upon our nation that has grown particularly rampant these days.
Allowing a Student Newspaper to follow in partisan-biased reporting fashion like AM talk radio and Air America radio or Fox News would be an educational injustice. Teaching our journalism students to understand the line between factual news and editorial opinion would be a good start towards a better future for our children than we have today.

Failing to mention todays game on the front page of the College NewsPaper is worse than protesting or supporting the "war" in my opinion and makes me want to send Rush Limbaugh, Cindy Sheehan, all political partisan hacks and the news staff straight to the frontline and let some good Panther Fan soldiers come home to watch the game! This Red State vs Blue state bs is a sickness. Someday soon, thanks to the current antics of the far right and the far left, the majority middle will rise to power and we will be all PURPLE states!

Tomorrow we can debate our political beliefs and try to wake up the NI Newspaper staff.
Let's get our priorities straight for today! GO PANTHERS! Smack those Salukis!

[CF Panther]

Questioning the stated reasons why an administration has entered our nation into a war is equally as patriotic and just as pro-veteran as is not questioning and fully supporting those same reasons.
These are democratic principles and why our troops fight in wars if they must.
These are only parts of why we celebrate our veterans and the sacrifices they made for our freedoms.
Blindly supporting or protesting any executive action solely for partisanship and political belief is hardly a democratic principle and seems to be a scourge upon our nation that has grown particularly rampant these days.
Allowing a Student Newspaper to follow in partisan-biased reporting fashion like AM talk radio and Air America radio or Fox News would be an educational injustice. Teaching our journalism students to understand the line between factual news and editorial opinion would be a good start towards a better future for our children than we have today.

Failing to mention todays game on the front page of the College NewsPaper is worse than protesting or supporting the "war" in my opinion and makes me want to send Rush Limbaugh, Cindy Sheehan, all political partisan hacks and the news staff straight to the frontline and let some good Panther Fan soldiers come home to watch the game! This Red State vs Blue state bs is a sickness. Someday soon, thanks to the current antics of the far right and the far left, the majority middle will rise to power and we will be all PURPLE states!

Tomorrow we can debate our political beliefs and try to wake up the NI Newspaper staff.
Let's get our priorities straight for today! GO PANTHERS! Smack those Salukis!

Nothing wrong with questioning the war. However, the group that was represented on campus yesterday does not use the facts. They are a far-left sponsored group that is being funded simply for political benefit of those who have something to politically gain against President Bush. They are also doing their sons and/or daughters an injustice by trouncing around the country wearing those ridiculous protest signs.

I AGREE THOUGH, back to the issue at hand: TIME TO KICK SOME DOG AZZ!!

[VistaPanther]

Nothing wrong with questioning the war. However, the group that was represented on campus yesterday does not use the facts. They are a far-left sponsored group that is being funded simply for political benefit of those who have something to politically gain against President Bush. They are also doing their sons and/or daughters an injustice by trouncing around the country wearing those ridiculous protest signs.

I AGREE THOUGH, back to the issue at hand: TIME TO KICK SOME DOG AZZ!!

They are no worse than the far right groups who do the same. Both the far left and the far right are a problem for our nation. My post was not to be anti-war or pro-war. It was to tow the middle and steer us towards all things purple.

This is is not the place to show support or disdain for President Bush (IMHO he deserves both by his actions, but I am purple, not red or blue) nor is this the place to argue the war in iraq. However, this is the place to ask why the NI Student Newspaper failed to mention the game on the front page of the issue prior to a game of this importance!

Let me re-iterate that Panther nation is a PURPLE state! Blues and Reds should go post that crap elsewhere, then put on something purple and come here and help keep this place PURPLE!

[ralph]

I sat next to the guy in the pressbox... "exciting game" I said, "yeah" he said very politely.

[pantherclaw]

Sorry to ressurecte this dead topic again. here's a link to the Letter to the Editor in today's NI. It's not my letter but it is from someone who I know very well and is just as passionate about the Cats as i am.
http://fp.uni.edu/northia/article2.a...4165&SECTION=2

[UNIAlum95]

Sorry to ressurecte this dead topic again. here's a link to the Letter to the Editor in today's NI. It's not my letter but it is from someone who I know very well and is just as passionate about the Cats as i am.
http://fp.uni.edu/northia/article2.a...4165&SECTION=2

Nice letter and well put.

[Marc Wigim]

Too bad the writer is kind a schmuck...

[NorthernIowaBacker]

Too bad the writer is kind a schmuck...

So, you just called yourself a schmuck...weird.

[Marc Wigim]

No, no... I didn't write the article, but the guy who did is a good friend of mine (his cell phone ring rules, btw... it's Rima's call of Ben Jacobson's game-winning 3 in Wichita).