12 Apr 06
Larry & Betty, to their credit, did not respond to the open response to them. This time.
I can and will use my default pseudonym for future matters, both in and out of the paper, but in the interest of restoring the order, Al Hayfever will not further antagonize the Larry Iles matter. But I’m a man of many aliases. Alii. Whatever.
Quote:
Dear Monitor,
Upon reading your last issue, I was appalled at Dr. & Prof. Iles for their attacks on editor Jon Lawinger’s actions. The Monitor is a free-submission paper and always has been; that’s the very reason its readers enjoy it. The same policy that allows Larry Iles to send any column he desires and know for a fact that it will be printed also allows Alex Hayfever to send any letter he wants with the same security, and to suggest that Hayfever’s letters should not have been run is to vote for dissolving the very principle upon which this newspaper was founded, indeed, the very principle that lets Iles see his work published. As for the comments about the reproduction of Larry’s letter, I don’t think it was a very fiendish decision, nor were the editors intending to obscure its content; I, for one, had no trouble reading it whatsoever.
By the by, to Betty McLane-Iles, I know the man who uses the name Hayfever personally, and I can assure you that he is in no way connected to Lawinger; in fact, the two have never met. And to Larry Iles regarding his viciously fallacious denigration of email, there is no dishonor in emailing contributions to a newspaper; one would assume that an editor on deadline appreciates the ease of copying a text file rather than retyping a paper submission.
With all due respect,
Nathan Rator |
Since Rator is a more real-sounding name, I gave Larry a fighting chance to decode it with a few well-placed clues, but given that he probably isn’t much of a Snicket fan, he probably won’t get it.
A closing note: Keep in mind that all of this was going on at the same time as my regularly contributed opinion pieces that I send in under my real name.
There is only one issue remaining for the semester. None of my fake names will be in it, leaving Larry as the only wild card. After the next issue runs (in 3 weeks due to a contest), I’ll report back in.
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And remember, “I’m-a Luigi, number one!”