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Web page is great, but be reporters!

To the Editor:
Yesterday I was browsing the Bucknell home page and noticed their on-line version of the student paper. I was thinking, "this is cool - wish Oberlin had this!" Well, this morning I discovered that you indeed do. That is really great!

On another note, I was reading the Dec. 8 article on the men's basketball team and noticed that you reported that Johnny Willis left the team at halftime of the Wittenberg game. That was it, no explanation. There must be more to this story - why don't you folks dig further?

This is just one example of how the Review has changed over the last couple of years. The Review looks less and less like a student newspaper and more and more like an outlet for College press releases. Often stories in the Review are very similar to ones in the Observer!

Be reporters!

-John Scofield (Professor of Physics)
Oberlin

Copyright © 1996, The Oberlin Review.
Volume 124, Number 16; March 1, 1996

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