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The most ignorant statement I have heard, on this campus, happens to be the one that was stating, “The Digest is a waste of money and the school needs to get rid of it.”  If that statement isn’t ignorant, maybe you need to reevaluate your life as whole.
Our Office of Student Media has proved itself to be the best.  If you just came and visit with us at least once, you’ll know for yourself.  Our office’s walls have been cluttered with nothing but awards.  Many of them are first place.  And, you say that this paper needs to be taken away? Really?
For the past four years that I’ve attended SU, the newspaper was one of the most essential parts of being involved with the University.  Not only was it for the involvement of the SU events, it was also one of the course requirements for one of the freshmen classes.
For nearly 90 years, the Digest newspaper has been in circulation, and for this generation to come along and say it needs to be removed, it seems as if campus info and news is not worthy of being published and seen throughout the world.
Just this year, back in February, the Digest won FOUR FIRST PLACE awards amongst other Historical Black College Universities.  Not once did we look forward to brag, although we do have that right to do so, we didn’t because we let our work speak for itself.  We may have gotten a mention on the university’s website, but that’s about it.  We weren’t even included in a picture, but that’s alright, “We got this here,” as Big K.R.I.T says.
The Digest is not only seen on campus.  It is accessible anywhere in the world.  So, you know what that means?  Yes, you’re right! Anyone who wants to know what’s going on campus, can access our newspaper by just simply using the school’s website or through Google’s search engine.
We, as students, need to realize that not all schools have a paper nor are their students alerted nor informed of news on campus. For some odd reason, the saying keeps popping in my head, “Be thankful for what you got, cause you don’t have to have that.”  I don’t know, maybe that’s the wrong saying for this topic.
It just infuriates me, though, that students think such things of this nature of fellow colleagues.  I may not be Jesus, but I do consider the question, “What would Jesus do in this situation?” when it comes to other people’s feelings.  I guess some people don’t have that fear of a higher power.
Well to make a long story short, as my grandma say, “Sweep around your own front door before you try and sweep around mine.”   Here at the Digest, all we want is for the students, faculty, staff as well as the surrounding community to know the knowledge and power that we all possess.  If the Digest was taken away, the people that depends on us the most will be stripped of the power of knowledge.  Remember, we are “The Sentinel of an Enlightened Student Body.”