No, you can’t

McCauley: once again you set the paradigm for self-righteousness and purported omniscience. I’m sure long after you’re gone you’ll have had a statue of yourself erected, your tools of journalism in outstretched hands (a crayon and magic eightball, I imagine.)

The fact that your clipped mention of the complaints about the editorial opinion on the Krispy Kreme Challenge was a deflection of somebody’s inability to do any real reporting or journalism aside — I’m not really sure how you intended to inspire individuals to be proactive in coming up with a solution to the 6,000 runner cap. Was it through lack of effort to even pick up the phone to call KKC or the Raleigh Police Department that you hoped to inspire the student body? Perhaps certain students on campus (say, traffic engineers) could come up with a solution to the problem and relay it to the KKC, but first they’d have to go out and figure out the issue in the first place. If only there were some central medium that reported the facts about issues like these on campus … It doesn’t come as much of a surprise.

From Marycobb Randall’s letter to the editor it seems you can’t even report accurately even when the information comes and is presented to you (in regards to Price Hall not being on the renovation plans). In the end, I’m sure the KKC board and the University Student Centers would love to hear what ideas you have (even if they do come from a ouija board) and any help you can offer, even if it is only to accurately report the information they have to relay.

Bryan Maxwell

junior, civil engineering

Brickyard feature was below par

Thursday’s version of the weekly feature “Spotted in the Brickyard” fell far below par. For one, if the title of the article is “Spotted in the Brickyard,” shouldn’t the responsible staff member at least make the effort to find someone in the Brickyard? Since the picture was taken in Owen, it seems obvious that the writer simply chose one of her friends in

the dorm and decided that she was at least fashionable enough to be in the newspaper.

But we as the student body of a school with an excellent textile and fashion design program should not have to withstand this mediocrity in the paper. Anything that can be described as “frat-tastic” is likely not fashionable, especially if the student is a girl. Also, blatantly admitting to sweats and a ballcap is probably not the best thing to include in an article about a “fasionable” person. There are plenty of people on this campus that put significant time and effort into their outfits and I’m sure they are offended that such a non-original outfit was featured. I hope that next week we will see improvement, or the Brickyard in the background of the picture if nothing else.

Dayne Plemmons

junior, chemical engineering