Newspaper exploiting and humiliating students, lacks news judgement

I am writing this in response to the articles in last week’s paper titled “Student Charged with DUI…” and “IFC Recruitment Chair Arrested…” I feel that it is unnecessary to display the mistakes of fellow students of the front page of the paper as entertainment.

The Pacer is a newspaper, not an entertainment tabloid. Why must The Pacer Staff capitalize on the unwise decisions of two college students and the following consequences? Where these the only arrests or violations made in Martin over the weekend? No, they weren’t, and yet, those people’s faces and stories aren’t plastered all over campus for the sole purpose of humiliation.

UTM students look to The Pacer to see what is happening on campus and what current events are going on at the time and all they get is a hyped up police report. Why wasn’t the article about All-Sing on the front page? Why wasn’t there more coverage on the Rodeo? It seems that The Pacer Staff is unconcerned with getting news to students and is more concerned with exploiting the very same people who read the paper from week to week.

Bekah Robbins Biology Milan

Use computer labs for school work, not games

I am writing in reference to the lack of consideration for students on this campus. On April 11 I went to the library computer lab to complete an assignment for class and saw that there were no computers available.

When I looked over at two of the computers I saw two students who were just playing games on the computers. This was very frustrating because these computers are intended for school use.

I feel that it is very inconsiderate to the students who have come to the computer lab to do school work and they can’t find a computer to work at because of student’s just wasting time playing games on the computer.

Lindsey Beatty Nursing Bartlett