Some writer, we think it is Emerson, says he does not value the book or the friend that continually agrees with him. He wants occasional disagreement to wet his mind. If The Student is only to knuckle to each whim and passing notion and never express independent ideas, it will be a detriment and a drag upon the college. But if we can sometimes set you to thinking, better yet if we can set you to talking, we shall consider our work done. The senators who voted to cut the campus' three most prominent publications just don't get it.
Free speech is important.
They should care about it. They should fight for it. They should not stifle it by cutting funds from their mass student voices. Content and quality really aren't the issues. And even if they were, there's not much fund-cutting ground on which to stand.