Campus Publication Uses Weekend Extension To Turn In Newspaper
Students riot when the publication is not delivered to the mailroom on schedule.
JRC- A SPARC-funded campus publication has used a weekend extension to submit its final product, an 8-page newspaper, to the general campus, which should have received the newspaper in the mailroom by around 12:30 PM on Monday, December 15th, four days later than the original December 11th deadline.
There has been some dispute as to whether the publication received permission to push back its due date. Several students have expressed a desire to confront the publication about its failure to adequately request the extension.
“You know, I'm all about understanding publications' needs,” said Bobby Bright '13. “Publications have lives too, and I know I should remember that.”
“But as I clearly state in my guidelines for publications, I require at least 24 hours of advance notice for any publication choosing to take an extension, and I'm afraid the publication in question failed to provide that information. Am I supposed to just look that over and pretend the publication was submitted on time? I don't think so.”
Other students have noted that while the publication did not provide the standard notice that it would be taking an extension, this was the first time all semester it had resorted to turning work in late.
“I mean, give the publication a break,” said Amy Julian '11. “It's been doing a pretty solid job all semester, and I don't know, I think I'd prefer to see it fully polished and copy-edited late, rather than sloppy and on time.”
The publication cited an exceptionally treacherous Hell Week – in both the academic sense and the “it's fucking snowing” sense – as reason for the extension.
“Yeah, everything just felt a bit overwhelming,” the publication began in an eighth paragraph quote of a front-page piece addressing the extension itself. “Coming out on time would have meant even more stress, and why risk suffering academically to put out a newspaper that not everyone even takes seriously?”
“It's not like we're the S&B,” added the publication.
The publication originally began considering the extension as early as 8:30 PM on the evening of Tuesday, December 5th, when two of the publication's editors were reportedly “too busy” with schoolwork to show up at the office, while an additional editor was relatively free but found leaving home to be a quite arduous task. The editors wished to remain anonymous until the Credits section appearing on page 3.
In an attempt to assuage its reader base, which the publication considers a pretty decent bunch of schmucks, the publication issued a 500-word justification beginning on its front page. Towards the end of the justification, the publication noted that the justification as well as the entire publication could be found online, for those readers intelligent enough to access the worldwide web.
The publication added that if readers were still upset after the justification, they could go fuck themselves.
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