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Jasper Jottings and the Quadrangle
Between You and David Ellison
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From: David Ellison
October 29 at 1:26pm
John,
I am the Editor-in-Chief of the Quadrangle. I check your site frequently for possible stories. I am disapointed to see with the re-launch of our website that you have not blogged about any of our stories. I understand a past editor got upset at you. However, I am going to encourage for my last month as editor that you mcquadrangle.org as much as you can. I understand Jasper Jottings is a great way to keep alumni connected. Please do not shy away from the Quadrangle’s website. We recently put out our Election Issue in which I wrote three very interesting articles. I encourage you to check it out. It should be up on the webiste within the next 24 hours or so.
I also encoruage you to check this out. I was interviewed for an article in the NY Times.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/26/nyregion/thecity/26virg.html?_r=2&scp=2&sq=virgins&st=cse&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
If you need anything let me know
-Dave
www.nytimes.com
Source: www.nytimes.com
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FROM: John Reinke
October 29 at 4:21pm
Dave,
The past editor didn’t just get me upset.
I was threatened with copyright infringement. Lame, from someone who obviously didn’t have a clue. I shared the email exchange with both my personal lawyer and a fellow alum lawyer who helps with Jasper Jottings Mike McE.
It wasn’t a matter of being annoyed.
Now, everyone, on my side of the fence, agreed that cross posting the headlines was well within “fair use”. We all decided discretion was the better part of valor. So, I just proceeded to ignore the Quadrangle.
It was bitter because several years prior the then editor asked, and I gladly, interceded with the Administration and the IT folks about the Quadrangle and its needs. I did some “selling” how the Quadrangle was an “institutional necessity despite being annoying”. No good deed goes unpunished.
Unfortunately, that legacy seems to require rediscovery with each change of years.
So, you want me to cover the Quadrangle in Jasper Jottings?
fjohn68
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FROM: David Ellison
October 29 at 7:57pm
I would love if you covered us. My job as Editor-in-Chief is to not only improve the paper and make sure it gets out but to also get people reading. Whatever network building I can do, I will take.
What did you think of the NY Times article?
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From: John Reinke
Today at 9:46am
Dave,
OK. I’ll begin to cover the Quadrangle. As I was doing in the past. Please pass the word along to your successor that I wear a white hat. Friendly fire incidents take a lot out of the receiver.
WRT the times article, you asked so I’ll give you some feedback. I don’t have much respect for the Times as a newspaper. It’s “liberal” bias always shows. Funny how the word “liberal” has been perverted from it’s original meaning of “champion of individual liberty” to “destruction of any personal responsibility”. It’s a well written story and it’s hard to distill the bias, but it is there. Right in the title, it sets the tone “Big Smirk”.
Yup, you got your 15 minutes of fame. If they caught you unprepared, you did fine. If you had time to think about it, I think you’d have been better served to be supportive Brother Scanlan’s ideal. Regardless of agreement with the strategy and tactics, you might have defended his vision, his right to set standards, and his defense of the sanctity of women. See it’s far too easy to “smirk” at those that buck the tide of secular progressiveness.
I know the man personally. He’s one who has great dreams for his students. I don’t think that was a good strategy or tactic, but he’s up at the bridge steering and I’m down in the engine room shoveling coal. He’s got perspectives and insights, I can only dream of ever having. I had many bosses; many of whom I knew I could do their job better. He’s a leader that I know I couldn’t replace. Not that anyone is going to trust me to inspire a few thousand children to do what’s right for them.
Virginity should be considered an issue of woman’s rights, liberty, and equality. Instead, the article got a chance to intimate that male Jaspers are horny dogs just like the rest of men. And, we’ll just politely leave out the implied characterization of the female Jaspers as too stupid to know what’s good for them without a club to reinforce their beliefs. A sad erroneous characterization of the Jasper — men and women — that I know.
No, that’s certainly not like any of the Jaspers I know. Not saints by any means. (Myself included!) But certainly not needing a club to tell them what’s right and wrong. Strong willed, hard headed, with courage and fortitude to follow their visions. In the face of any opposition. And certainly not in need of any crutch to do what they think is right.
I have never figured out whether it is the education that makes that character, the institution attracts and selects those type of people, or is it a good people come to an institution that transforms the raw iron into steel? Lest you think I’m biased, I am. But I have a lot of obits as anecdotal evidence that Manhattan College produces a lot of good and some great people. It can’t be by accident.
Not that I agree with them all, like for example Rudy, but I am certainly impressed with what they have accomplished as a body of work.
So now you know more than you ever wanted to know about what I thought of the Times article.
LOL, sorry you asked?
fjohn68
p.s.: Given the scandals in reporting, it might make an interesting follow up to see if the three students cited in the article exist, said what’s attributed to them, or were taken out of context. Break that story, and you might get a Pulitzer for investigative journalism! Wasn’t that Gray fellow brought down on the details of a filler story he wrote. And, then stuff just unwound. That would certainly put the Quadrangle on the map!
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[JR: We'll resume covering the Quadrangle in the spirit of Jasper cooperation. Until the next editor chimes in with "copyright law". :-) Or whatever.]
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