The Southern Digest has been covering campus news since 1926 and as a whole, the students of free speech have been busting their behinds to bring the campus news, sports, culture, and an opinion section for a minimal fee. For the money that is made, we output more work than we are being paid.
We are the pinnacle of Southern University history because we blatantly cover Southern University as a whole. If you don’t believe that we do then all we can do is try with the information that we have or receive.
First of all to get the informalities out of the way, we don’t have to cover you. At all. We choose to and in my opinion I feel that it would be a divine pleasure to be featured in a newspaper especially one that focuses on the writers’ future as well as features the faculty, staff, student, or anyone who has an effect on the university.
We are not a Public Relations firm, but we are the newspaper, we have to report the good along with the bad, otherwise, we aren’t doing our job and that’s not why we get out of bed in the morning. We get out of bed remembering the right to free press.
Secondly, we work too hard on this paper to be printed for your entertainment just for anyone to glance at errors. I see the students in the office stare blankly into the computer screen fighting writer’s block and issues of self-consciousness. We urge them to move forward and push out excellence in the paper.
That being said, we are human and we do make mistakes and we are pieces of our departments and using this as a stepping stone to gain experience for job opportunities and beyond. If you are salty about mistakes or if we “left out something,” feel free to call our advisor and not take your negativity out on the student. Let’s not forget we are not born perfect but we strive to be. Also if your curriculum is sad, don’t try to tell the class to copy-edit a paper because it only shows that Southern pays you too much to come up with work on the fly. Every paper has errors.
Plus if you want to name mistakes, then sweep the dirt off of your own porch before you try to come at us. I want to name all of the mistakes that our university has made, but for your sake I don’t think it’s a good idea; it just might be a best-seller. If you have any issues feel free to call our office and we will gladly invite you to apply and become a copy-editor. in return that will make you apart of the entity of known as “The Southern Digest.” If you don’t like that idea then take the advice your mother should have taught you: if you don’t have anything good to say, don’t say anything at all.
For the people who haven’t complained and but have given us constructive criticism in an effort to make us better, thank you. We humbly appreciate your readership and hope to maintain your support and constituent words of encouragement.
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November 25, 2014
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