re: The Chronicle office battle
because it’s not real if it’s not on the internet, here is my letter to the Hofstra SGA in regards to the battle for the Chronicle office. Ryry and DG have already written their very brilliant letters here and here.
You guys (by which I mean esteemed ladies and gentlemen of the SGA),
Cut the crap already. Seriously. You know as well as I do that taking The Chronicle out of its office is a poor decision. Ryan Broderick has told you. David Gordon has told you. Lisa DiCarlucci has told you. Every dear person who took time out of their busy, underpaid day to write to you has told you that this is a bad choice on your part.
Yes, the office is one of the few legacies Hofstra has that doesn’t include binge drinking or sorority girls putting alcohol up themselves. The student newspaper is a truly worthy endeavor for students of this University - the students who give up the time they could be binge drinking to do something that actually matters. Something that matters to them in their future careers and something that matters to the University as a whole.
You as members of the SGA are doing just that. You’re giving up your time to help the school and to help your fellow students. I fail to see how taking away the Chronicle office from the students who spend most time in it and putting them in a considerably smaller space is helping anyone. You can’t work until 4:00 a.m. on a Tuesday night in a 7’ by 9’ space. If we wanted to do that, we’d just go back to our dorm rooms. That office is our work space, our lounge, our cafeteria, our home. In between classes, when it all got to be too much, I didn’t go back to the overpriced single steps away in Alliance Hall. I went to Chronicle office, saw my friends, ate a sandwich, took a nap. I’m sure I spent more time on that filthy green couch in four years than I ever did at the desk Res Life gave me.
Hofstra might brag all it wants about the School of Communications, but when it comes down to it, it’s the time I spent at the Chronicle, the experience I got there, that taught me more as a journalist than any of the class assignments I completed out of Dempster. I’m sure SGA isn’t concerned with academics, but it would seem the School of Comm isn’t either. For what other reason would they let us falter like this time after time?
But this is all old news. As is SGA’s battle against the Chronicle. I say it’s time to cut the crap, let the only student newspaper on campus work in the space we’ve had since the beginning of time (Hofstra time at least) and get back to making this the school we want it to be; a school where students help one another, not one where we pick petty fights and hold silly grudges.
With the best regards, I am
Sincerely yours,
delia p
Class of 2009
![here’s a book you could get me. and here’s how i came to think of it:
in Jen Doll’s first post for the Atlantic Wire, she brings to light new app WotWentWrong, which “asks users to ‘proactively seek feedback’ from their dates…and ‘develop insights and behaviors to ensure your relationship goals.’”
now i don’t need any feedback from anyone i’ve ever dated. mainly because their reasons would be as follows: “i needed to focus on my _____” [insert any of the following]:
band
career
writing
fashion line
taxes
football team
crippling mental illness
since these are all them problems and certainly not me problems, i have no need for feedback. (perhaps a need for therapy?)
the app’s ultimate goal is to garner ad revenue and sell you stuff when you’re at you’re weakest. so, for example, if your past partner says your tardiness is the reason for the breakup then (he’s a fool) the app would recommend something like the above tome.
anyway, even if there’s no need for input, there’s always room for self improvement and i really am chronically late. perhaps this is something to add to the reading list?](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyoms6VnM91qzjk7uo1_400.jpg)
