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From: George Slone
Sent: Friday, November 8, 2019 8:47 AM
To: editor@dailywildcat.com <editor@dailywildcat.com>; opinion@dailywildcat.com <opinion@dailywildcat.com>
Cc: vaillana@email.arizona.edu <vaillana@email.arizona.edu>
Subject: Univ of Arizona administrator satirized in a new P. Maudit cartoon et al
To Editor-in-Chief Nicholas Trujillo and Opinions Editor Ariday Sued, The Daily Wildcat, Student Newspaper of the University of Arizona:
Attached is a cartoon I sketched on one of your administrators, Allison M. Vaillancourt. Please publish it in your newspaper. It represents an uncomfortable truth in academe. It has been my experience over the past 3 decades that academics and student newspaper editors do not cherish vigorous debate, cornerstone of democracy, not of diversity.
As for your mission statement, why not add a touch of originality? Why not add an h2, since you have an h1 and h3? H2: *FREEDOM OF SPEECH and VIGOROUS DEBATE statement*. The cornerstones of a thriving democracy are freedom of speech and vigorous debate, which is precisely why we will NOT censor opinions that might somehow offend certain marginalized groups, including academic administrators and professors. We seek to publish TRUTH… and TRUTH can often be highly offensive.
BTW, the cartoon certainly does seem to fall in line with your mission statement, in particular, “To assertively seek content that has high interest, impacts the reader, provokes discussion and advances the reader's knowledge.” Certainly the cartoon would provoke discussion! So, how might you justify NOT publishing it? Please do let me know of your decision. Hopefully, you do not need to add an h4 to your mission statement: *SILENCE IS GOLDEN statement*…
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