Dear Editor,
I have been a reader of the East Tennessean since I began my academic advancement here at ETSU, and I can honestly say every time I pick it up, I am always amazed. This morning, like all mornings, I picked up my copy as I was strolling into the Culp Center at 7:45 just to see what ole’ Darren had to say.
As I expected, he had written an article directed to people who regularly attend church – people that would be offended. This article is total garbage, just like his other articles, to no surprise. The past several times I have read this paper and wasted time reading his articles, he hasn’t failed to give me a good laugh. I have been tempted to write in, but I figured my letter wouldn’t get published.
But I’m in a good mood this morning and have a few minutes to kill before class, so what the hell?
Darren Seiber is typical of his kind. I knew people like him in high school, and I know people like him today. He has a false sense that he is essentially above the general population and probably considers himself fairly intelligent. I would also imagine that whenever he picks his topic or finishes his latest article he brings it into the East Tennessean office and everyone has a huge laugh anticipating the anger that it’s going to erupt around campus.
And these people (the office staff) laugh, because they incorrectly think that the students who are going to get angry are probably stupid, blond males or females involved in Greek life, and that is the targeted population by this writer.
Seiber, I am not involved in Greek life, nor am I stupid. In fact, I am a 19 year-old gay male student with a reasonably high G.P.A. In conclusion, Seiber, instead of trying to make up for your own high school inadequacies by writing articles directed at the kids to whom you did not care for in high school, and you still do not care for in life, try another angle. Try writing about something important that affects students on this campus. I hardly think that atheism or dumb blondes that are dying to get a bid from their Greek organization of choice constitutes as entertaining or informative reading in the East Tennessean.
Stop trying to shock and provoke us, the real shock would be if you wrote an article that mattered. I hope I haven’t been too brutal, but I want a paper worth reading, not something worthy of wiping my ass with.
Thinking of you,
Todd King

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