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Friday, October 16, 2009 | The Rkd a Black
Carolyn Crist | Editor In Chief edltor@randb.com
Haytoy Pstoraon | Managing Editor me@randb.com
Mtehasl Fitzpatrick | Opinions Editor opinlons@randb.com
Our Take
Majority opinions of The Red & Black’s editorial board
Cartoon mishap
Thursday's editorial cartoon was
incorrect, and we're sorry.
We were wrong. There’s no other way to say it.
Thursday’s editorial cartoon questioned
money used for the College of Pharmacy expan
sion in relation to no flu shots at the college’s
Dawgtoberfest event this week. We received let
ter after letter from disappointed pharmacy
students. Usually, we aren’t concerned whether
our cartoon offends, but there was one major
problem our facts were incorrect.
The facts: The College of Pharmacy raised
$5,200 to purchase 500 flu shots. However, due
to a nationwide shortage, the vaccines could
not be supplied for this year’s event.
When our cartoonist drew his piece, he used
Wednesday’s news article for his idea. However,
he misread it and drew a misleading cartoon.
As editors, we failed to edit. We were compla
cent with checking our cartoon space and
didn’t question our nationally award-winning
cartoonist who is intelligent and talented. But
that’s the one thing we can’t do in our jobs.
And you called us out. We received more than
30 letters and we appreciate it. A few are on
this page, and all of them are included online.
Some accused us of attacking the services
provided by volunteers. We want to reassure
the pharmacy students that we have nothing
against them and found the event newsworthy,
which is why we covered it. We always intend to
work with the pharmacy school— and all col
leges across campus —with professionalism
and accuracy. This happened on Wednesday’s
news page but not on Thursday’s opinions
page. These discrepancies undercut how we
build relationships.
The one thing we’re encouraged by is the vol
ume of letters. That shows how much you care
about your activities and value what we do: try
ing to present factual information to the public.
Continue to keep us accountable, and we’ll con
tinue to give you the news you want and need.
Carolyn Crist for the editorial board.
Like, what’s the deal
with overusing ‘like’
Like, what Sigmund
Freud meant by his theory
of dreams was that, like,
dreams are, like, spy holes
into our unconscious mind.
Count the number of
“likes” in the sentence
above.
Now, how often do you
think that same thought
while listening to your
friends and peers speak
their mind?
I was sitting in class the
other day with another
gnawing headache caused
by the overuse of the word
“like” by my peers when a
professor finally called out
a frequent user in a subtle
and humorous way.
He noted she had just
said “like” four times in
one sentence, then asked
her to take her pen, write
down the word “like”—
and then cross it out.
“There,” the professor
proclaimed. “It is on record
that you’ve crossed it out
of your speech forever.”
The student contin
ued making her previous
point, obviously being very
careftil to omit “like” from
her speech and her words
became so much more pow
erful, not because they had
changed, but because there
were no longer three or four
“likes” haunting the silent
spaces in every sentence.
Many people who
integrate “like” into their
speech are very intelligent,
but their opinions become
washed out because listen
ers are so distracted by
the overuse of the word.
Think “like” is just val
ley girl language?
Wrong.
This stereotype is com
pletely false because near
ly everyone I know, includ
ing myself, resorts to using
the word at some point.
‘“[Like]’ has become
conversationally popular.
It is now the trendy way
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The point is that Freud
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E-mail and letters from our readers
Cartoon created ‘uproar’ at the Pharmacy school
[To editorial cartoonist] Mr.
[Bill] Richards,
I am sure you are aware of the
uproar your cartoon in today’s
paper has created among the phar
macy school. I am a pharmacy stu
dent that participated in running
Dawgtoberfest, so I would like to
share with you why this cartoon
causes so much offense. I always
enjoy The Red & Black and the
work that the paper as a whole puts
into most stories. However, I have
been dissatisfied with the quality of
your drawings for some time now,
and this one just pushes it over the
edge.
I would urge you to look up the
facts before you draw your car
toons. The first fact you have wrong
is our ability to pay for flu shots.
The school placed an over SSOOO
order for 500 flu shots to be avail
able. Because there is a shortage of
flu shots, we could not obtain that
order. Please ask your doctor and
he will likely tell you he is having
the same problem. It was our inten
tion to set aside money to have
flu shots, but it was not the point
of Dawgtoberfest. Please ask any
of the volunteers who spent time,
knowledge and resources to discuss
important aspects of health care
with our students and faculty. Does
that mean nothing?
Your cartoon implies such. The
whole point of this activity is to
offer free health care information
for the campus. I would challenge
you to find any other student run
organization that puts on such a
huge helpftil event and attempts
to offer such resources as free flu
shots.
Secondly, before you imply our
funding of the school expansion
took the place of paying for flu
shots, look at where the money is
coming from. The large amount
of the expansion was paid for by
an internal organization wanting
to offer the University of Oeorgia
pharmacy students a cutting edge
facility. Your implication that this
expansion was a waste of money is
offensive.
I know you have to make fun
of something for a cartoon to be
fUnny, but suggesting that the
school expansion wasted money
that could be used for flu shots is
absurd. Please get your facts right
before you bash such a philan
thropic event and suggest that our
efforts are not good enough.
I do believe you owe the entire
School of Pharmacy an apology for
undermining our terrific efforts to
enhance the minds of our fellow
UOA students free of charge.
RACHEL DOYLE
Grad. Student, LawrenceviNe
Pharmacy
‘Disappointed’ in cartoon’s
‘misguidance’ of students
To whom it may concern.
My name is Walter Williams and
I am the president of The Academy
and Student Pharmacists. We
are the organization that puts on
Dawgtoberfest every year. I am
writing to address the misrepresen
tation of our organization/event in
the Cartoon in today’s paper.
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This cartoon undermines all of
our efforts to provide a public ser
vice in the form of a health fair for
our community. We placed roughly
a $5200 order for 500 flu shots and
did not receive them because of the
shortage (not because of a lack of
funds). However, the Red and Black
charges us to advertise for a public
service to the same community that
they provide news service for. As
far as I know, no other venue (espe
cially a student run organization)
gives free flu shots to students, but
we made every effort to provide
a service with flu prevention kits.
We also gave out FREE glucose
checks, blood pressure evaluations,
HIV testing, T-shirts, and food that
was paid for through our student
organization and sponsorship from
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I am very disappointed in the
Red and Black’s misguidance of the
UOA community and to what our
organization is all about. Many stu
dents spent countless hours volun
teering their time to provide a pub
lic service for UGA students, faculty
and staff. In the future, please be
more informed on the facts of the
flu shot shortage and try not to
undermine our efforts to donate our
time in helping fellow students.
I hope for the best in our future
relations, and thank you for your
time.
WALTER T. WILLIAMS
Grad. Student, Pharmacy
Paper owes school,
students formal apology
Dear Editor in Chief and Red
and Black staff,
I am a second year pharmacy
student at UGA writing in con
cern with the political cartoon in
Thursday’s Red and Black. First
I would like to thank you for all
of the hard work you put into our
school’s fantastic news paper.
I have been a huge fan of the
Red and Black.
This morning I read the Red and
Black and was quite disturbed by
what I saw. The political cartoon
chosen to be in today’s paper was
a direct insult and an unnecessary
undercut towards both our profes
sional Pharmacy program and the
student health care community at
our university.
I am a huge advocate for increas
ing political savvy and trying to
illustrate an opposing view of an
issue, but this cartoon was blatant
ly attempting to bring down the
reputation of our program and our
attempt to provide a public service
to our community.
More so it was attempting to do
this with false information.
I am the president of one of the
student pharmacist organizations
that provides health screenings at
Dawgtoberfest and I serve on the
board that organizes and executes
Dawgtoberfest every year. This
misrepresentation was an insult to
both my hard work and the hard
work my colleagues put in to mak
ing this event run as smooth as
possible with no cost to the student
body.
This is especially upsetting
because the organizations in the
college of pharmacy and college of
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false information is unprofessional
and upsetting.
I am sure you have already heard
from other e-mails how the informa
tion represented in the cartoon was
false but I would like to reiterate
the facts. The flu shots that were
going to be provided for free at this
years Dawgtoberfest were already
paid for by the student organiza
tions at the college of pharmacy.
In fact $5200 worth of flu shots
were ordered months ago and were
going to be donated to the student
body.
We were contacted a few weeks
prior to the event notifying us that
we were not going to receive these
shots due to the current shortage of
flu vaccines in the state of Georgia.
As for the funding for the phar
macy school expansion, the largest
percent of the money that paid
for the school expansion came
from donations from an internal
pharmacy organization devoted to
creating a state of the art complex
to improve the quality of care we
as pharmacy students and future
pharmacists could provide to OUR
community.
This has no bearing of whether
or not we were ‘able’ to pay for flu
shots this year. Insinuating that the
pharmacy program wastes money
on a ‘multi-million’ dollar expan
sion undermines this organization’s
attempt to improve both the prac
tice of pharmacy and the image of
The University of Georgia.
I fail to understand how mock
ing an organization’s attempt to
improve the quality of life for stu
dents at YOUR OWN institution,
again with no cost to them, could
be beneficial for your organization
or the students body as a whole.
The simple fact is, with flu shots or
without, we are still providing an
unmatched service to the student
body of UGA at no cost whatsoever
and if the Red and Black would like
to criticize our attempts at provid
ing this philanthropic service it
would be most professional to do
so with true facts rather than false
information.
I believe you owe a formal apol
ogy to both the Pharmacy program
and the Student body for such a
vast misinterpretation of our event.
I look forward to hearing back
from you.
Sincerely,
STEVEN NAKAJIMA
GSHP President
Grad. Studant. Pharmacy
Editor’s Note:
Due to the high volume of let
ters received regarding Thursday’s
editorial cartoon, we do not have
ample space to run each and every
letter.
Every letter we received
Thursday about the cartoon will
be published online, and letters on
other matters will run on Monday.
Thank you.
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