October 11, 1974 Five Students Running for SEC

Five students have submitted self-nominations and will run for two positions on the Student Executive Committee in an election on October 15 and 16.

Charlie Schwartz, Henrine Davis, and Caren Keller are competing for one position on the Administrative sub-committee of SEC.

Ira Carter and Dexter Davis are running for one position on the Social sub-committee.

The candidates each submitted nomination statements to the BROADSIDE.

IRA CARTER: Let's shoot with bullets, not marshmellows (sic). End SEC tinsel facade of respectability. We can get the job done and still have a good time. V.I. Lenin said the revolution cannot begin without the party. Dadd. Nadd. (I think I wrote Dada. Nada.)

Students Call Selves Self-centered

A large majority of Webster College students who were surveyed by the BROADSIDE on October 2 defined themselves as an apthetic, self-centered student body.

The BROADSIDE surveyed 70 students concerning a TIME magazine article entitled, "Now, the Self-Centered Generation" (September 23). The article said that today's college students are "overwhelmingly concerned with preparing for lucrative and satisfyoing jobs." (Ha! Shows how out of touch TIME was. - Ed.)

Students were asked in the survey, "Which would you include in defining Webster College students as a whole?" Five multiple choice responses of character description were offered, including: apathetic, active, self-centered, artistic, and other.

More than two-thirds of the students surveyed said that they would include apathetic or self-centered in their definition.

Only 22 students, including 15 freshmen, said they would use artistic or active to define the Webster student body.

Other adjectives used by those surveyed to define Webster students included queer, avant-garde, diverse, and surreal.

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All the "swill" that fits, we print?

To the Editors:

Never before has the pretense at objective journalism resulted in such mediocrity as the September 9th edition of the BROADSIDE. Tedium has replaced imagination and vitality as the motivating force behind the production of our "student newspaper." Where do you guys and gals get off getting college credit (and salaries, no less!) for spewing out this swill? Honestly, gentlemen and ladies, our aesthetic sensibilities were grossly violated.

As a result, a challenge: will the BROADSIDE staff challenge the undersigned in the production of a four-page tabloid? Surely, by all reasonable standards, the experienced journalists, and I use the term loosely, of the BROADSIDE staff, would produce a newspaper obviously superior to any Hell-spawned mutant we could contrive.

If, howeve, the challenger meets more acclaim and approval from the student body (which the BROADSIDE should be serving, but, I fear, is not), then perhaps the BROADSIDE staff should resign en masse, give up those fancy salaries and easy credits, and surrender.

Be forewarned. We will make no pretense at factual reportage or objectivity. We will overstep the boundaries of good taste. We will stoop to cheap sensationalism and tawdry innuendo. Above all, we will entertain. It will be read. It will be discussed. It will pretend to be ART. In a school full of artists, why should the BROADSIDE be so artless? Why should the BROADSIDE mimic what the Globe-Democrat already does poorly enough?

Enough? Then the challenge is on. Name the week. All we ask is a fair start and there will be no doubt which is read, and which is thrown away unread.

Until then,

Ira Carter, John Kyle, Dan Appleyard, Janet Wolf, Steven Weiss

P.S. Nuthin' personal fellahs!

To which, Dan Appleyard, apparently horrified by his association at the above screed, added ...

To the Editors:

In reference to the letter submitted to the Editor by Ira Carter, and signed by myself, some clarification may be needed.

The total disbandment of the BROADSIDE staff is not the issue being confronted. Nor is it a question of journalism, with its informative and educational advantages. Yet, along with the potential strengths of strict journalistic expression, lies the need for an aesthetic and opinionated form of communication within the environment of Webster. The logisitics of Ira's proposed idea will be discussed by the SEC in the near future and all concerned are welcome to attend.

Daniel Appleyard, Chairperson

To the best of my knowledge, nothing more ever came of this, the BROADSIDE continued to wallow in mediocrity, and I sought out other oxen to gore.