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Campus
newspapers essential to education
In
any community, a free and independent press
is essential to advance public discourse.
This need does not stop at the gates of
the academy.
As
a former editor of the Online Forty-Niner
and as the current faculty advisor to a
college newspaper, I am especially attuned
to the value a student newspaper has on
campus. The lessons learned in the basement
of SSPA while working with remarkable professors
and even more remarkable professional staff
(I'm proud to count production manager Jamie
Eggleston among my mentors) served me well
as both a professional journalist and journalism
professor.
Former
Online Forty-Niner editors, writers and
photographers are among the world's most
respected working journalists; their good
work and their many Pulitzer Prizes are
in no small part due to their experience
at Cal State University, Long Beach.
To
learn that the Associated Students Senate
might not fund the paper is heartbreaking.
CSULB will be a lesser school without the
Online Forty-Niner. I urge the Associated
Students Senate and the college's administration
to consider solutions to the Forty-Niner's
funding deficit and act to keep this important
student medium alive.
—Jayne
M. Iafrate '85
Falmouth, Mass.
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