2008 Woodie Awards
Student upset over Homecoming editorial
Letter to the editor
Bill Staley
Issue date: 11/2/06 Section: Editorial
Dear editor:
I am writing in regards to the poor information published in the Oct. 5 issue of The Echo. In the editorial, it states, "There was not even a campus-wide e-mail sent out on the Scrappy list serve."
However, as an employee of university relations (the office that sends out Scrappy e-mail) and as a Homecoming committee member who typed the promotional Scrappy e-mail, I believe you, the editors, should check your information or at least your e-mail account before showing disdain for the hard work that dozens of students poured into the Homecoming festivities.
For your records, the Scrappy e-mail was officially sent, via Chuck Cantrell, on Sept. 7, 2006 at 12:46 p.m. So we were not "forgetting to tell 7,000" students after all.
Let's try and be positive and show appreciation for Cacey Lewis and Kristen [sic] Cochran, who have quite possibly been the best Homecoming co-chairs this university has seen in some time.
The article in the Times Free Press showcasing our first Homecoming Queen and Top MOC in 20 years focused very little on Juan Moreno and Lauren DeLoach and instead focused on the alleged "controversy" of which your managing editor, Katie Broderick, fed the fire with false statements.
The Homecoming Court was abolished in 1986 due to racial controversies. The first year it was back we had three amazing minority candidates, one of them becoming our new Top MOC. I think it is a great statement to how UTC has overcome so many racial boundaries and that our campus boasts one of, if not the highest, minority percentages in the UT System.
Congratulations to Lauren and Juan. You both are amazing students here at UTC and I am privileged to consider you my esteemed colleagues.
Bill Staley
Junior and SGA vice president
Hendersonville, Tenn.
Editor's note: The Scrappy e-mail that Staley refers to was sent Sept. 8 and had the subject line "Student activities and events." The Homecoming applications were indeed mentioned, five stories into the e-mail and 20 paragraphs down. The Echo regrets this oversight.
Regarding Katie Broderick's quote in the Times Free Press, she was responding to a quote from Krystyn Cochran about how the event could have been found out about at SGA meetings, which all students are invited to.
Broderick responded, "I think the SGA knows that a lot of students don't come to their meetings."
I am writing in regards to the poor information published in the Oct. 5 issue of The Echo. In the editorial, it states, "There was not even a campus-wide e-mail sent out on the Scrappy list serve."
However, as an employee of university relations (the office that sends out Scrappy e-mail) and as a Homecoming committee member who typed the promotional Scrappy e-mail, I believe you, the editors, should check your information or at least your e-mail account before showing disdain for the hard work that dozens of students poured into the Homecoming festivities.
For your records, the Scrappy e-mail was officially sent, via Chuck Cantrell, on Sept. 7, 2006 at 12:46 p.m. So we were not "forgetting to tell 7,000" students after all.
Let's try and be positive and show appreciation for Cacey Lewis and Kristen [sic] Cochran, who have quite possibly been the best Homecoming co-chairs this university has seen in some time.
The article in the Times Free Press showcasing our first Homecoming Queen and Top MOC in 20 years focused very little on Juan Moreno and Lauren DeLoach and instead focused on the alleged "controversy" of which your managing editor, Katie Broderick, fed the fire with false statements.
The Homecoming Court was abolished in 1986 due to racial controversies. The first year it was back we had three amazing minority candidates, one of them becoming our new Top MOC. I think it is a great statement to how UTC has overcome so many racial boundaries and that our campus boasts one of, if not the highest, minority percentages in the UT System.
Congratulations to Lauren and Juan. You both are amazing students here at UTC and I am privileged to consider you my esteemed colleagues.
Bill Staley
Junior and SGA vice president
Hendersonville, Tenn.
Editor's note: The Scrappy e-mail that Staley refers to was sent Sept. 8 and had the subject line "Student activities and events." The Homecoming applications were indeed mentioned, five stories into the e-mail and 20 paragraphs down. The Echo regrets this oversight.
Regarding Katie Broderick's quote in the Times Free Press, she was responding to a quote from Krystyn Cochran about how the event could have been found out about at SGA meetings, which all students are invited to.
Broderick responded, "I think the SGA knows that a lot of students don't come to their meetings."
