This year, The Post's newsroom has gained notoriety for opposing the bureaucracy of the current university administration and championing the students' wishes of shared governance and transparency. However, Post columnist Alissa Griffith needs to remove the blinders that she wears and realize that we don't need a column that amounts to cheerleading.
The column Administrators' e-mail updates are 'just a nuisance' is nothing more than Griffith scolding students for wanting to be informed and involved with the everyday functions of the university. Griffith asserts that students who care about the way their university functions are merely inconveniencing the rest of the student body. Perhaps Griffith believes that those who care about how the federal government is being run are inconveniencing the other citizens who are allowed to wallow in their blissful ignorance. Maybe it stems from our generation's culture of disrespect
something she referenced in a column last quarter that asserted that organizations like Students for a Democratic Society protest for the sake of it.
Perhaps the greatest fault in her argument is that, instead of simply deleting the e-mail, she allows herself to be agitated by reading them. If she feels so inconvenienced by these e-mails, why on earth does she take the time to read them, as opposed to exerting herself for the fraction of a second it takes to delete them? In a column named Maybe It's Just Me shouldn't Griffith speak for herself instead of the large number of students who are supposedly being inconvenienced?
The only logical explanation is that Griffith reads the administration's e-mail updates because she is a glutton for punishment. Masochism is more common than you think; it's the reason I read her column. ' Aaron Vilk is a freshman journalism major
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