To the Editors:

I’m extending a professional courtesy that you most certainly did not extend to us, i.e. responding to your issue with a particular article in a letter to your editors rather than as the editorial of the paper I work for.

I’m sorry that you were so angered by the paraphrased quote in our article about Judaism on campus. I’d like to apologize.

The statement should have read “Letters to the Editors,” rather than “articles.” However, even if the speaker’s intent had been to accuse the Review of anti-Semitic articles, we would not be in the wrong in printing it.

Part of our responsibility is to print the opinions of members of the community in a Features story of this sort. Printing only those comments which agree with some sort of base ideology of the paper would be incredibly self-indulgent.

Furthermore, I do not plan to turn this letter into some sort of rant about the Review. You serve your purpose on campus and I’ll save whatever problems I have with your publication for another letter or express them in another forum, because turning a response of criticism into an attack would be silly.

Thank you, in the end, for the editorial. All criticisms allow for growth, and we will certainly take these into consideration. I hope that this doesn’t ruin our lighthearted rivalry, which up until this point has been delightfully pointless.

–Alli Katz
Editor-in-Chief, The Grape
College sophomore