Writer irresponsible, rude to source
I am writing in regards to the irresponsible behavior I encountered with one of the staff writers of The Reveille. Adam Causey attempted to contact me last month concerning Atheists, Humanists, and Agnostics (AHA), a campus organization of which I am a member. Causey called my parents’ phone number, which is the only number I had listed in the campus directory, though I do not live there.
My parents do not know that I am an atheist, and I would rather that they did not find out from a random, inconsiderate third party. I informed Adam of this information via email, and I also provided him with my apartment phone number. He was apologetic, as he was still trying to get information out of me to do his story.
Causey then called my parents’ home again this week concerning AHA. I emailed him again, calling to his attention that I had given him my current telephone number. He replied with, “I have a lot of other things to keep up with besides your apartment number as well.” I suppose he was holding back his unprofessional comments until after his story was run.
This type of journalism is very ineffective and inconsiderate. I have never met Causey, yet he asked me for my time and information. He would never get what he was asking for, as he called a number where I could never be reached. I am not a journalist, but I think that if I were, I would keep track of my contacts, and try not to piss them off.
I think there is also proof of Causey’s substandard journalism in his articles on AHA. In both articles, he uses only one source to speak for the group.
One person’s opinion is rarely representative of an entire organization’s thoughts and feelings. Maybe if he was courteous to the people he was trying to extract information from, he could get more than one person’s quotes to put in his work.
Dana Doucet
Vice President, AHA
senior
chemistry
Vandals should come clean for door damage
There is a certain door in Coates Hall that, for some time now, has been decorated with various postings of satire and dissent regarding our current Supreme Court-appointed president and his reckless policies. Last week these postings were cowardly torn down by anonymous hooligans.
Whoever the perpetrators of this act of ideological terrorism are, I’m sure they are somehow affiliated with the college republicans. I don’t have any evidence to support that outrageous statement but this is Bush’s Amerikuh.
Evidence for wild accusations is not high on our priority list.
The door in question is personal to me because of what it represents.
Being a liberal (the horror!) in America these days is like being the only vegetarian at a barbecue. Being a liberal in Louisiana is like being the meat. During the Iraq War, peace protestors were escorted off the parade grounds while pro-war activists were regularly allowed to express their views.
An LSU cop told me that the problem with LSU was “too many liberals.” At a peace rally last March, counter-protestors suggested I should get “a bullet in the head.” I was called a “coward who hates America,” a “socialist,” and a “communist.”
I am none of those things. I am a thoughtful patriot with a brother in the service.
I don’t want him or anyone else dying because they weren’t affluent enough to get into Yale on a legacy, earn mediocre grades, and go AWOL from the Texas Air National Guard for a year.
Shaun Treat’s door reminds me that there are some people more concerned with enlightenment than entertainment who are not sleepwalking through Bizarro America right now. It doesn’t give me hope.
Hope is dead.
However, it helps me sleep better at night knowing some lonely souls won’t go down easy.
The vandals should step forward and claim responsibility. If you’re tough enough to sneak around under cover of night and attack sheets of paper, you should have the stones to defend your narrow-minded views.
To do otherwise is as pathetic as your blundering hero’s failed presidency.
Jamie Saucier
junior
history