The goal of a student-interest based publication should be just that:  to publish information related to student interests. As a manager at GameStop, I’m in a unique position to know with pretty decent certainty that there are a lot more gamers on campus than people interested in an interview with an incoming freshman. The paper has only twenty or so pages per week to try to convey what it deems important to the student body. Apparently what’s important are interviews with students and teachers, five or so pages of sports, and about five pages worth of advertisements. Those topics already cut the potential page count for worthwhile stories into less than half. I’m not saying that these things aren’t important. However, if you’re going to marginalize so called geeks by relegating the only article directed at them to online only and with only one writer supporting it while the same time giving a full page (I say full page, because the other half is always advertising) to MMA every other week, then the staff could at least try to spread the wealth.  Why not come up with some sort of rotation? That way, every article is seeing print at least once a month. I love reading the student paper, but even I can finish in about five to ten minutes due to the fact that I skip more than half the articles because they are of no importance to me, and I promise I’m not the only one doing the same thing. The school paper is supposed to report on what we as the student body as a whole cares about. I realize it’s impossible to hit one hundred percent relevance to everyone on a weekly scale, but it can’t be that hard to hit a high percent on a monthly scale.

Jacob LeBlanc

English junior

Schriever, LA