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Okay, Okay... I know. The cover is a bit
presumptuous. But in actuality, whoever wins this
game will walk away with
the title (or at least a piece of it.) If odds makers are correct, then
this
will actually be a collector's edition!
Instead of griping and complaining about how much time I spent doing this, I'd
like to tell you
just abit about why the Chieftain was stopped in mid-season.
It was not Carrie's or Vince's fault.
This paper is sponsored by Tau Beta
Sigma and Kappa Kappa Psi, which means that we pay for the
paper and supplies
and generally do most of the typing and preperation. When considering what
these
two organizations represent (and for that matter, what Chiefs
represents) it is important that we
maintain some sort of standards for what
is in reality a representation of all of us. Oh, don't worry.
The Chieftain
is intended to represent the Chiefs, both individually and as one. But
when opinion
(even intended as humor) takes on the form of possible slander,
then the representation turns to
different shades of
grey.
The major culprit (although not the only
article that could be singled out) was the article in the
Miami Chieftain
which spoke of the Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual Chiefs Support Group and its
newest
members. This article was quite clearly intended as a joke. But the
truth of the matter is any one
of those people listed could have easily
suedKKY orTBS (or even
Chiefs) for libel. And they would
have won.
In
order to do this Bowl Chieftain, I had to come up with certain guidelines for
for what can and
cannot be printed, and these guidelines had to be passed by
Dr. Shellahamer. This does not strictly
define what is or isn't humor or what
might offend one person or another. In fact, it gives a lot of
responsibility
to the editor to decide what's appropriate and what isn't. So i guess if
anything bad
happens because of this Chieftain, I'm in big
trouble!!!
Anyway, I just thought the Chiefs
deserved an explanation. If you don't like this Chieftain,
don't blame me.
Barely anyone sent in articles, so I recycled a couple from the past few years.
Hope
all of you out there had a super holiday break.
Louie St. Petery, interim editor.
A special thanks to Jon Lovoy, without
whom none of us would have made it here. He single-
handedly (actually he did
use two hands) took care of all the changes that had to be made after
the
minute budget cut.