Having just picked up the March 30th edition of Globe, Issue 11, I was not only shocked, but dismayed, that a newspaper representing a state educational institution would lower itself by printing such trash!
It doesn’t matter if you’re an agnostic, atheist, Christian, Jew, Muslim, Mormon, whatever, the cartoon degrades the highest standard of an honorable function at the university. The cartoon does not even recognize the newsworthiness of one of the world’s yearly celebration observed not only in Rome but in every corner of the globe where the Spring equinox enlivens the hopes and dreams of the human race.
The cartoon artist has no concept of News as recognized by the Schools of Journalism in some of the highest rank education institutions in the United States. By printing such trash in the Globe it lowers the very standard the Salt Lake Community College hopes to achieve and maintain in the Utah Community.
What had the cartoonist learned in this institution?
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June H. Garrity
Graduate of the University of Nevada School of Journalism
After reading the above exchange I looked for the cartoon.
June, what is your specific objection? The cartoon discussed the historical origins of Easter. Then referenced a common component of a different celebration that, confusingly, often goes by the same name.
This historical fertility celebration is the reason some of my Christian friends refuse to use the term “Easter,” and instead more appropriately label our celebration “Resurrection Sunday.”
There is a very large difference between the equinox you reference and the Christian celebration of the resurrection of Christ.
The cartoon merely said so.
Some further reading on the topic can be found here:
http://www.christiananswers.net/q-eden/edn-t020.html
As the cartoonist, I’d like to say that your opinion has been noted. However it would be much easier to specifically address your complaints if you had any specific complaints. Simply calling something “trash” is an opinion, and nothing can be done to correct an opinion.
Poking fun at the traditional conceptions of holidays allows people to think beyond the confines of tradition and explore real history. This is simply critical thinking, something that SLCC has taught me well.
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