Spec Pieces
Today's Columbia Spectator has two pieces of interest. The first is Matt Velazquez's overview of the Ivies in general and the second is Jonathan Tayler's article on the switch from WSNR to WWDJ for the professional radio broadcasts of football this season. The second piece mentions me briefly at the end.
Hopefully, the Spec will continue to fill the sports pages with football content all season long. This is the marquee sport at Columbia, both in overall attendance and in outside media attention, and the Spec should act accordingly.
Of course, we also hope the Spec will think carefully before publishing even an opinion piece bashing athletics. Free speech is important, but you really don't have to give space in the paper to people who don't know what they're talking about. I'm not saying there isn't a lot to complain about regarding athletics and academics at Columbia, but last year's attack on athletes was clearly written by someone who never did any actual research on the admissions process for athletes. And while the New York Times routinely publishes editorials by people who don't know what they're talking about, that's not something the Spec should emulate.
posted by Jake @ 9:38:00 PM
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Publishing columns that bash athletics is the price paid for freedom of the press. There have been far more neutral stories (on games and interviews) in Spec than negatives ones. We have to accept the fact that many students just don't think sports are important or even a worthwhile activity to spend money on, devote time to, support.
The article about non-league games had at least one error. According to the Prov Journal, "Matt Nuzzo, a backup quarterback last season and a possible starter this year, told (Brown's) Estes about two weeks ago that he is giving up football to concentrate on baseball."
How about some positive stories for a change?
My favorite Spectator sports story from last season was the one wherein the writer admitted that, after he'd written some negative stories about Columbia football, Norries met personally with him in a come-to-Jesus sort of meeting and got him to properly see the "light."
Reminds me of the way the Benedictine nuns I had in grade school would similarly always get the academic and behavioral results they desired, by golly.
RS
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