UNFAIR COMPARISON
(In response to William Boor’s story “Beavers still searching for season’s first win.”)
I have a few complaints about your article entitled "Beavers still searching for season's first win." You are certainly entitled to fill your position as a sports writer, but I am very offended that you criticized the Sun Devil Marching Band in this fashion. This Band works extremely hard and the only comment that The State Press even bothered to make this semester was something negative.
As an organization, we are already under scrutiny from other bands with unwarranted hate. It is unacceptable that our own school provides this type of negative feedback. Your article, while not overtly seeping with hate, provides the grounds for other insults and waves of hate especially since anybody can read these articles. We are not in high school anymore and your inappropriate attitude towards the band will no longer be tolerated. The band puts at least 6 hours of class time in a week and you, personally, have debased the blood, sweat, and tears of 400 people with your slap in our faces. Gaps in our sets are unavoidable since the Marching Band is an extremely difficult class and we have more than a handful of dropouts. The fact that you could tell there were gaps means that we were properly doing our job of keeping the hole open (something much easier said than done) so I would appreciate it if you would not judge the entire band because of the few that could not take the pressure.
I demand a published apology since it is the absolute least you can do for figuratively spitting in the face of the entire Sun Devil Marching Band.
Beverly Gross
Undergraduate
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