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The students should have been picketing in front of their administration building with signs asking, "Where's Our Money?"* Doug

You are right Doug! Who wants a bunch of college students in front of your office demanding the other side of the story from the mainstream media about some chump change being switch and baited to elsewhere. Wait until this group of protesters finds out that billions of their future taxes have already been stolen by real Corporate military-industrial complex crooks in North Carolina.

Remember the black community does not want the truth about anything. Look at the history of thieft by so called black leaders in Greensboro. All they want to show is who is boss. They have the dreaded race card and you should not forget that. So for the sake of tax dollars just forget about Renick and give them more money to steal.
Think of this, the same stupid students carrying the "stop the bad press" signs are the future leaders and thiefs of tomorrw.

I think the P.E. Johnston comments are unfair. Whatever one thinks of the "black community" or "black leaders" in Greensboro, what's that got to do with these students?

I disagreed with the point of their demonstration yesterday, but I wouldn't call them stupid. They're college students, so they're not stupid. But they're young. I marched off in the wrong direction once or twice when I was their age.

Future "thiefs"? That kind of remark doesn't belong in the discussion.

I should have been clearer. If you take 50 students and collectively they can not figure out that their money is missing and should be upset at that fact and not the press turning it into news. Then yes stupid fits very well.
Also Doug you may not have noticed but for years now you do not have to be smart to go to college "you just have to want to go".

I think the march is misunderstood. The point is not about what happened, but rather that the students felt that the newspaper were unbalanced in their reporting of the school's affairs. Basically, the question is if this happened at another school, would the newspaper focus so much on the situation as they did at A&T. It would be interesting to analyze how many negative news stories that newspaper reports at A&T versus other schools and the same with the positive stories. True, what happened at the school was wrong, but did the newspaper had to report on it the way they did as long as they did?

That doesn't wash to me. This newspaper provides plenty of positive coverage of A&T, and not just features about the band. We've covered development of the nanotech school and Millennium Campus, the peanut allergen research and other academic programs. We provided a tremendous amount of coverage to new chancellor Stanley Battle, including an Ideas front interview, a Sunday editorial and a video interview on our Web site. We also invited him to be part of our next One Guilford program to talk about the Millennium Campus development.

The financial troubles under the previous administration are real news, and they have directly and adversely affected students. It's amazing to me that some of them choose to respond by blaming the newspaper.