[Boston-editorial] against centering Student-Workers article...

[Matthew Williams]

If you hadn't said anything, I would have centered the article.

I agree that the rhetoric in the title and the first few lines is a 
little over the top, but on the whole it seems like a solid article. 
And he does refer to the student-worker movement on campus as 
"embryonic" later in the article.

May be we should contact him about editing out the over the top 
rhetoric? Or can we do this ourselves without consulting him? I guess 
we should talk about this Sunday--if we want to allow ourselves to edit 
articles we feature for things like that. If we do it after we press 
the feature this article button, the original is saved, so we can 
always revert if an author has a huge issue. I certainly edit titles 
from time to time. If we do decide that we are entitled to make edits 
such as that, we should put it clearly in our editorial policy.

-- Matt

On Apr 22, 2005, at 6:53 PM, Pete Stidman wrote:

> sorry to be repetitive, I just read it through and the
> only thing he offers as evidence for the claim of
> things rising to a "fever pitch" and the "beginning of
> a movement" is a list of events happening, mostly in
> the northeast.  All of this has apparently been culled
> off the web, which is OK I guess (actually his list is
> not even close to complete) But what is missing is a
> comparison to recent years (spring is always a busy
> time at the universities), and any sort of strong
> connections to community (another claim of his title)
>
>
> I just think it's a little naive to say that wow, the
> revolution is starting here, just because a bunch of
> relatively small protests, strikes and other actions
> are happening at universities.
>
> If we saw, say widespread huge protests at the
> majority of univerisities accross the US now there you
> have something, but this could be similar to last year
> or two years ago for all we know (from reading the
> article)
>
> There are also some other claims in the article that
> are not founded.  Like saying "hundreds of thousands
> of students, maybe millions" are actively involved in
> counter recruitment is a pretty bold claim, and how
> would he back this info up?
>
> I'm not against trying to psych people up a bit but I
> am against doing it with exaggerations and untruths.
>
> In addition, the bulk of this article is really about
> two actions at Umass Amherst and yale-columbia. thus
> it holds a misleading title in another way.
>
> So I guess I block this article being centered at
> all....
>
>
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