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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR POLICY
Student Media Board vs. WLOZ
Dear Editor, the emails? Who knows? But she needs to
In regards to Dr. Fuller’s letter last week realize that if she was so willing to insensi-
printed in the Seahawk, I have to question ively open her mouth about the attacks at
where Rosa Fuller happened to get all of her such an ill appointed time, she needs to be
political values. Does Rosa really feel the willing to take the heat that comes from that,
way that her email portrayed, or have her To me, it seems that Rosa Fuller seemed to
political ideologies been branded into her by take advantage of her freedom of speech, but
now wants that to stop at what she says.
Well, too bad. I believe that Rosa’s ideals
_ _ are nothing more than rhetoric, which can
her battles for her. Was she threatened by hardly be called factual. College is a time to
create our own
values and ide-
, not just
preach those
lat our parents
9 readily be
lieve in. So
Rosa, and
Rosa’s daddy, if
Last semester, fliers decorated the
bulletin boards around campus asking
for support to “Save WLOZ,” the cam
pus’ student run radio station. The ra
dio station closed down last January and
the Student Media Board is ready to vote
In actuality, most students on the
UNCW campus don’t know that there
was a campus radio station. One impor
tant question is, how many people would
actually listen WLOZ if it were rein
stated? The FM signal it used was not
only unlicensed by the FCC, but so weak
no one off campus could hear it. What
ever becomes of WLOZ, it will not con
tinue as a broadxast radio station.
The radio station is no the only stu
dent media organization facing hard
ships. The Seahawk and Atlantis are
running short of funds in their budgets.
The Sept 11 terrorist attacks have put
the breaks on an economy that began
slowing last spring. Low advertising
sales and potential start-up costs for new
media such as the Film Group and Stu
dent Body Television have created con
cern about the financial situation of the
student media. How does the SMB plan
to compensate for the lack of funds?
By closing the radio station perma
nently, $4000 would be free to allocate,
but most likely it would go into a sav
ings account. The media board will ask
for a $2 increase in fees for each stu
dent this semester.
Students have been up at arms aboui
the increases in their fees. With the
pending increase in student fees for the
construction of the new union and othei
campus projects, does another $2 really
matter?
Student media is an important but
der appreciated part of UNCW life
Writing for The Seahawk gives students
experience in journalism and gets them
involved in campus events. It supplies
news and features that inform students
about the around town and around the
world. Atlantis allows students to sub
mit their own works: poetry, photos,
drawings and stories, and teaches staff
about the world of publishing.
The creation of Student Body Televi
sion and the Film Club will give students
new opportunities for self-expression
In a town based around the film indus
try like Wilmington is, media organiza
tions such as the Film Club and SBTV
are good ways to gain valuable experi-
Student media acts as a laboratory foi
students interested in pursuing careers
in publishing, public relations and ad
vertising in addition to print journalistil
and photography. Let’s hope the medi^
board will receive enough money tofunc
new media to broaden student horizon!
even more, into television broadcastinj;
and film.
I am writing in response to an editorial
published in the Oct. 18 edition of The
Seahawk. As a student of Dr. Lisa Pol
lard, I was shocked that someone would
unjustly twist her words, changing them
from their original humanitarian approach
to something so hateful. Her words did
not mean to imply that the United States
was at fault for the events of Sept. 11.
Yes, in countries like Iraq and Afghani
stan there are thousands of children dy
ing from malnutrition and from the vio
lence that wrenches their countries.
Americans, college students especially,
need to put this into perspective, because
we are the next rulers of this country. It is
us that will have to make decisions on for
eign policy. The most harmful action that
we as students can make at this point in
our lives is to turn our heads and fill our
selves with ignorance, not awareness. Re
sponding to violence with more violence
is not the answer. The hatred towards
America is only going to increase dramati
cally as more and more Afghani civilians
are killed in a blind man-hunt.
Diplomacy and a reevaluation of Ameri
can foreign policy might help us uncover
the reasons behind such a horrible act of
genocide. Each bomb that we drop
ghanistan could feed these starving chil
dren, could increase goodwill betweer
countries.
There is a growing communication gap
between countries; this onslaught of
lence is only widening that gap. Our pro:
fessors at UNCW are not out to contami
nate our views on how the world works
Their job is to educate students on v
they know. These people were not
hired off the streets, they are educated
they know what they’re talking about. We
are all in school to learn; what
be to close our minds to knowledge besides
wasting space that many children woulc
give anything to have?
The students at UNCW must stand up
for what we believe in; we must watch the
news, read the papers and educate our
selves on what is going on in the world
We will be the leaders of tomorrow, let us
not make the same mistakes again. Wher
the final death tolls come from New York
and Washington, there will be many
American children without families; do
want the only thing in common betweer
children of two great nations to be that they
are all orphans?