Daily Cal Editorial Board Lands an Indy Nosebone
You know it’s summer when the Daily Cal Op-Eds are about skateboarding policy. While generally I give the op-eds a lot of leeway, I’m going to have to question this one. I have to imagine the conference room discussion had to go something like this:
Editor-in-chief: We need to have something for our second editorial.
Opinion Editor: We’ve already asked all our usual guest writers to submit something this summer, so that’s no longer an option.
Random Staffer: We could write about the moratorium… again…
Random Staffer 2: Or, we could write about the impending recess nomination of John Bolton.
Editor-in-chief: No, not topical or fresh enough. Anything else?
Opinion Editor: … um, how about skateboarding and skateboard park policy? There is a small debate about it right now in Berkeley.
Editor-in-chief: Does anyone know anything about that?
Random Staffer: I used to skateboard in middle school!
Random Staffer 2: I’m a hemophiliac, but I finger-boarded for a while.
Editor-in-chief: That’s gold! Get to work, deadline is in an hour…
and Squelch strikes again, thank you Ben.
Comment by Ethan — August 1, 2005 @ 12:47 pm
Good Lord! Fingerboarding.
Comment by McMike — August 2, 2005 @ 3:53 pm
Dearest Ben,
You really should learn the difference between an op-ed and an editorial. It’s confusing to read this post otherwise.
Comment by JKC — August 2, 2005 @ 10:15 pm
What’s funnier, the waste of print that was the piece or the fact that Ben had to waste his time on a silly Daily Cal piece.
If you ignore it, it will go away!
Comment by DrainMe — August 4, 2005 @ 5:49 pm