As a person who is easily angered and likes to complain, I've often been known to direct my anger at any subject that happens to present itself.
That being said, even I was bothered by Post columnist Ashley Herzog's hypocrisy and misplaced rage upon reading last week's column, Taliban student a sign of Yale's duplicity
chastising Yale University for admitting a former Taliban official as a student. While reading her column, one question came to mind: Was this a really slow news week?
Does Herzog honestly think that Ohio University's only student newspaper is a forum for her personal views on the goings on of other universities? Commenting on national policy is one thing, but meddling in the affairs of Yale can't be the best use of her, The Post's or the reader's time. Especially considering the troubles occurring right here in Athens: Tuition's going up, certain sporting events are being eliminated and jobs are being lost while the school demands more money for a new residence hall ' or whatever all the trees are being chopped down to make room for.
If one were so inclined as to go nationally, New Orleans is still in bad shape, the president is on a power trip and reality shows are still on television.
Reading on, I continued to find more problems with the article. Herzog attempts to accuse Yale of hypocrisy by citing their refusal to allow military recruitment on their campus, in protest of the military's refusal to accept known homosexuals and its mistreatment of women. Because this also falls firmly in the category of Yale's business, I'll let my previous arguments echo in your mind a few times.
I bring it up only as a slick segue into my observation that Herzog herself is guilty of stunning hypocrisy. I had to dig fairly deep into the recesses of my own memory for this one, but I seem to recall that last year when Phyllis Schlafly came to our beloved campus, it was Herzog who wrote a column in support of Schlafly.
Considering that Schlafly is responsible for the defeat of the Equal Rights Amendment, and that she cited the amendment's (disproved) potential to allow gay marriage to do so, Herzog finds herself guilty of hypocrisy squared: accusing someone of hypocrisy while being hypocritical herself.
While I do not agree with Yale's position, I do not believe that anyone should be able to make Yale's decisions except for Yale. Perhaps Herzog will keep this in mind and choose her topics with more restraint.
Remember, children: Just because your friend has friends you don't like doesn't mean you need to take up valuable newspaper space complaining about it. ' Warren Locke is a sophomore journalism major. 17
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