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A recent decision by editors of The Maroon, a \u201cnewspaper publisher\u201d (sic) on campus, has moved the paper in a journalistic direction. The vote only nearly passed among staffers for the paper. The latest issue will now contain \u201cnews, or something\u201d. <\/p>\n
<\/b>The Maroon finally became aware of its dwindling importance when members saw the copious stacks of untouched issues laying in the waste disposal outside of the Arley D. Cathey dining hall. Upon this revelation, a meeting was called in order to maintain what little dignity the publication still had. <\/p>\n
<\/b>\u201cIt was a tough vote,\u201d says copy editor Charles Stroum, \u201cand not everyone is happy about it. The Maroon hasn\u2019t reported news for over 100 years. We aren\u2019t sure how our readers will respond. They have never really relied on us to report factual information. We\u2019ve built a strong reputation for being useless.\u201d<\/p>\n
<\/b>An avid reader of The Maroon, Amber Galloway, expressed her concern, \u201cWhat made the Maroon amazing was that no one read it. You could literally write anything and The Maroon would publish it. I read an op-ed one time about a guy who felt a little sick one day. Not sick enough to go to the hospital, but just enough for it to be annoying, you know? I mean not even The South Side Weekly would publish something like that. But if The Maroon starts reporting news, then people might begin to care about it and they\u2019d have to actually edit their articles.\u201d <\/p>\n
<\/b>A recent campus-wide poll to determine the impact The Maroon has on students shows that \u201c7% read the paper weekly, 26% quarterly, 15% occasionally, and 52% use it to fix wobbly chairs\/desks, clean up their dining table, paper mache, etc.\u201d <\/p>\n
<\/b>Third year student, Malik Eberly, adds, \u201cYeah of course I\u2019ve heard of The Maroon. Hasn\u2019t everyone? How else would I know that we have a football team if it weren\u2019t for The Maroon?\u201d Eberly then candidly spoke, \u201cWe do have a football team, don\u2019t we?\u201d<\/p>\n
Another poll, conducted by the Statistics Club, asked the question: \u201cWho do you trust more? Yik Yak or The Maroon?\u201d A staggering 89% responded \u201cYik Yak\u201d, 9% abstained from voting with the minority being staffers of the paper who constituted the last 2%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
By David North Oct. 23, 2015 A recent decision by editors of The Maroon, a \u201cnewspaper publisher\u201d (sic) on campus, has moved the paper in a journalistic direction. The vote only nearly passed among staffers for the paper. The latest issue will now contain \u201cnews, or something\u201d. The Maroon finally became aware of its dwindling importance when members saw the copious stacks of untouched issues laying in the waste disposal outside of the Arley D. Cathey dining hall. Upon this revelation, a meeting was called in order to maintain what little dignity the publication still had. \u201cIt was a tough vote,\u201d says copy editor Charles Stroum, \u201cand not everyone is happy about it. The Maroon hasn\u2019t reported news for over 100 years. We aren\u2019t sure how our readers will respond. They have never really relied on us to report factual information. We\u2019ve built a strong reputation for being useless.\u201d An avid reader of The Maroon, Amber Galloway, expressed her concern, \u201cWhat made the Maroon amazing was that no one read it. You could literally write anything and The Maroon would publish it. I read an op-ed one time about a guy who felt a little sick one day. Not sick enough to go to the hospital, but just enough for it to be annoying, you know? I mean not even The South Side Weekly would publish something like that. But if The Maroon starts reporting news, then people might begin to care about it and they\u2019d have to actually edit their articles.\u201d A recent campus-wide poll to determine the impact The Maroon has on students shows that \u201c7% read the paper weekly, 26% quarterly, 15% occasionally, and 52% use it to fix wobbly chairs\/desks, clean up their dining table, paper mache, etc.\u201d Third year student, Malik Eberly, adds, \u201cYeah of course I\u2019ve heard of The Maroon. Hasn\u2019t everyone? How else would I know that we have a football team if it weren\u2019t for The Maroon?\u201d Eberly then candidly spoke, \u201cWe do have a football team, don\u2019t we?\u201d Another poll, conducted by the Statistics Club, asked the question: \u201cWho do you trust more? Yik Yak or The Maroon?\u201d A staggering 89% responded \u201cYik Yak\u201d, 9% abstained from voting with the minority being staffers of the paper who constituted the last 2%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3004,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971\/revisions\/3004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}