http://blog.georgetownvoice.com/2008/01/15/more-on-the-hoya/ The Georgetown Voice Blog Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:05:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://blog.georgetownvoice.com/2008/01/15/more-on-the-hoya/comment-page-1/#comment-48337 Sam Sweeney Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:50:21 +0000 http://blog.georgetownvoice.com/2008/01/15/more-on-the-hoya/#comment-48337 It sounds like the Hoya does have a legitimate beef with the University about control over its finances and denying the editors access to their bank statements is admittedly ridiculous. But, as Tim said, I don't think you ask for independence from the Media Board on one hand and blame them for not catching the staff's mistake on the other. The point of the story—that the Media Board should have caught the ad manager's blunder—seems to contradict the line at the end of the story, that "the staff will always care more about the newspaper than the university will." It sounds like the Hoya does have a legitimate beef with the University about control over its finances and denying the editors access to their bank statements is admittedly ridiculous. But, as Tim said, I don’t think you ask for independence from the Media Board on one hand and blame them for not catching the staff’s mistake on the other. The point of the story—that the Media Board should have caught the ad manager’s blunder—seems to contradict the line at the end of the story, that “the staff will always care more about the newspaper than the university will.”

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