Letters to the Editor

The Lamron’s Official “Letters to the Editor” Rules and Requirements:

  1. All submissions must be up to 300 words long. If they exceed the word limit, The Lamron has the right to shorten the submission to the appropriate length before it is printed.

  2. All submissions must be in response to an article that was published in The Lamron or to comment on a current issue being debated by a governing body – local, regional or national.

      1. The submission must reference the article it is referring to and may include a brief description of said article.

      2. The submission may not be one of the following:

        1. A thank you letter.

        2. Announcements for community events.

        3. Endorsements for political candidates.

  3. All submissions may not be created in order to or contain content that is meant to harass or discriminate against an individual or group of individuals based on race, color, age, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation or other protected characteristics. The Lamron reserves the right not to publish the submission if it contains any forms of harassment or discrimination as defined above.

  4. All submissions must be submitted to the opinion editor of The Lamron (lamron.opinion@gmail.com) by 6 p.m. two days before the issue is published (Tuesday).

  5. he submission must be signed by the author and include contact information. Only under special circumstances and with the discretion of the The Lamron can the author’s name be excluded from the letter.

  6. The Lamron reserves the right to edit the submission if it contains grammatical errors or is not consistent with AP style. The submission will also be fact-checked.

  7. The Lamron will print all submissions so long as space allows and the author adheres and accepts these regulations.

 
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Letter to the Editor: Geneseo Community Expresses Solidarity with Black and Underrepresented Students and Community Members
The Lamron

Recent events on campus remind us once again that black students in particular and underrepresented students in general still face stereotyping and prejudice in our community. As an institution of higher learning, and as a community, we must call out these disturbing actions and attitudes at the individual and institutional level.

The Lamron
Letter to the Editor
Letter to the Editor
Letter to the Editor

We write in reference to a Letter to the Editor in The Lamron, recently written by a certain professor of philosophy. This letter condemns The Lamron for publishing what this professor claims is a disingenuous apology from an anonymous student involved in the blackface incident on our campus. In the name of encouraging open dialogue, we wish to offer a rebuttal to this letter. 

Letter to the Editor
Letter to the Editor
Letter to the Editor
Letter to the Editor

From what I can summarize, the point of Dr. Everett’s letter, published in The Lamron on April 11, is that people who are “politically incorrect” are more persecuted on this campus than racial minorities (specifically African Americans). Of course he thought that. He’s a white philosophy professor with tenure. 

Letter to the Editor
Ted Everett
Letter to the Editor
Ted Everett

I write in reference to the interview The Lamron recently published with the student who made a joking reference to blackface on Snapchat. This was, to my eye, not a genuine interview at all but a forced public confession in which, to its shame, The Lamron was complicit. I have no specific idea how this came about: the decision of the student to request this interview and the agreement of The Lamron to participate. But the result strikes me as a put-up job in which the student mechanically repeats an apparently scripted apology. “Everyone is right to be angry at me,” “This is not about me,” “I was ignorant and privileged” the student said, clearly in order to avoid being suspended or expelled.

Ted Everett
Katherine Peter and Madelyn Dewey
Letter to the Editor
Katherine Peter and Madelyn Dewey

Urban Dictionary defines “slut” as “a disgrace to all women … someone who sleeps around,” and “stud” as “slang for someone very attractive … basically a badass.” Though Urban Dictionary is not a source for technical definitions, it may be used as an indicator of modern cultural perceptions. In the March 14 issue of this publication, an Op-Ed implied that the word “slut” is a valid characterization of 21st century women with multiple sexual partners. The Op-Ed went on to insinuate that “stud” is a title earned by men who have sex with multiple women because men have to “put more effort into getting laid, [while women] only [have] to ask.” 

Katherine Peter and Madelyn Dewey