Editorial: See The Pacer in a new light
In lieu of last week's reporting on the injury to Alpha Omicron Pi member Julie Vantrease, The Pacer staff was reminded that many on campus see the student newspaper in a somewhat superficial light.
The Pacer is the student newspaper on campus for several reasons.…
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Poor perceptions often become presstime problems for journalists
News flash: Journalists are human and therefore make mistakes.
The mistakes are sometimes real and sometimes the result of perception problems between us and the subjects of our stories. Our job is not to intentionally harm people who become part of the news, or those who, via group, major or whatever, find themselves associated with the subjects of any given story.…
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Letters to the Editor
Student not a design major I feel that there were some very offending mistakes in the September 11 editorial. First of all, neither of the UT Martin students accused of counterfeiting were Graphic Design Majors. The Department of Visual and Theatre Arts as a whole is offended by the statements made because of careless reporting.…
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College campuses isolated from the rest of the world's news and views
An odd trend seems to happen as we go about our lives here on campus. As we make friends and learn about the people who surround us on a regular week-to-week basis, we tend toward shutting out the rest of the world. This isn't a bad thing or even a conscious thing that most of us do, it just seems to happen and it doesn't happen to all of us but it does happen to a great many of us.…
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Smoking students getting the shaft on campus
Imagine yourself sitting on a bench minding your own business chomping away at a tasty bacon egg and cheese biscuit. Like most Americans you're miserably overweight and you're not doing yourself any favors by eating that bundle of bad calories, but by being an American with free will, it's your God-given right to do so.…
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The Pummeling Pen
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