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Novitski’s clear liberal agenda went unreported
What happened to full disclosure in journalism? Some of your reporters at Central Michigan Life seem to have a problem with properly identifying interviewees and their agenda in stories.
Associate Biology Professor Charles Novitski seems to be a favorite go-to man for anti-conservative and anti-President Bush comments.
The latest article featuring the highly controversial faculty member appeared Wednesday and discussed a documentary film — I use that that term loosely — on the Fox News Channel.
Reporter Angela Lodewyk failed to mention that the Democracy Film Series is a pro-liberal movement sponsored and administrated by the university’s College Democrats chapter, which lists Mr. Novitski as a faculty advisor.
Don’t you think that’s worth mentioning?
And finally, why not get a response from FNC? It can’t be hard, as I found several after only a quick Google search.
Dennis Lennox II
Midland freshman
Sport of football not cause of off-field violence
In response to the guest article by Sociology professor Robert Newby, I do respect his opinion that the players’ “silence” is due to their commitment to teammates.
However, blaming the skills learned in the competition of football as the reason for DeMarcus Graham’s death?
“Football players at the Division I level have internalized the violence to the point that it is routine,” Newby wrote in a guest column Wednesday.
Newby seems to say that all Division I football players here or anywhere are a bunch of thugs who are out to beat some ass, while I know that off the field they are some of the friendliest students you’ll meet here.
I’d just hate to be lined up across from them on Saturdays. Newby continues by stating, “If one plays football, there must be a commitment to doing violence to others. It is taught. It is expected. It is fundamental to the culture.”
Newby seems to think that a football player has an uncontrollable passion for violence all the time, even while attending class.
When I played high school football I never felt the notion to beat somebody off the field, I saved any aggression for Friday nights.
As a CMU professor I would hope that Newby understands that human beings have the ability to distinguish between what is appropriate behavior.
During practice or a game a football player can partake in legalized violence and it is only for the sake of competing. However being a football player does not justify, nor cause, violence off the field.
Nick Blaskowski
Cheboygan sophomore
