By Kim Manahan (Whetstone Staff Writer)
Kim Manahan
In the last issue of The Whetstone, I made a banner above the opinion section saying that if anyone had feedback or something to say, to email us. I even provided my email, along with my adviser’s.
The only feedback I received came from a person who does not go to Wesley, and who seemed to have a personal vendetta against me – although I am still not sure who she is.
I did hear, however, that people were angry with what I had written in my editorial. That’s OK.
I realize sometimes my opinions can be a little over the top. I just happen to publish mine in the campus newspaper, and if anyone would like, I can explain why I wrote what I did.
Anyone can publish their opinion, really. And anyone with a well-thought-out opinion should. I encourage any student at this school to write something to us, whether it’s about an issue going on in the world, or just on campus.
Just because you think in a different way doesn’t make you a negative person.
But many people have told me that I’m too negative. Why?
Yes, I am a bit on the cynical side.
Someone actually made their Facebook status say: “Kim Manahan is a depressed person that needs Dr. Phil and aromatherapy.â€
I have my reasons for being who I am, as does the chipper person on the other side of the room.
The Whetstone, as an independent student newspaper, is not negative. It is a newspaper. We write what happens. We write what others feel. We write what our sources tell us. There’s nothing else to it. Editorials are a different thing, but that’s what they’re meant for.
Following NCATE and the Education department has nothing to do with me being negative. It has to do with the fact that there are developments in what is going on.
What do you all want?
CNN isn’t going to fluff up the protests in Egypt right now.
Bad stuff happens all over the world, as does good stuff. The trick to seeding out what to write about is to figure what is out of the ordinary.
We aren’t going to write about every bit of community service or every single fundraiser that every last person on campus does. Admit it. You would put this paper down as soon as you found your picture.
That’s not news. It happens every day.
Also, people shouldn’t be doing community service to get their picture in the paper; they should be doing it because they care about a cause.
This is the reason that I have stuck with The Whetstone for the past five years; it is a cause that I care about.
I don’t do it to make friends – if anything, it makes more and more people dislike me.
