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Allen, this is only tangentially related to being an "EX"-N&R staffer, but a new low today on pg. A2 with the "News Trivia". I mean-making a trivia question about where a sexual assault took place allegedly committed by a SE Highschool student. This is disgusting. Obviously,it's an appropriate news item but making a trivia question of such a thing? You guys have really lost your s--t! You won't print conflict of interest allegations involving a schoolboard member but you will give ink to this crap?
Has it been a creeping thing or did you guys make a conscious decision in the last yr. to go out to pasture?

http://mediamatters.org/items/200604190003

Seems Mr. Snow has a few items in his recent past to recommend him as a spokesperson for Our Glorious Leader...

Mr. Gehris, the news quiz on page A2 isn't a "trivia quiz," as you refer to it. It's a quiz based on items in the news recently. Of the five questions, four of them are based on serious news events, including the one you question. That said, given the sensitivity of the case, we could have chosen more wisely.

Thank you, John. I hope you know the nature of your reply (hinting at responsibility) is a watershed event on this particular blog, even though it wasn't made by the silent sentinal who rules this domain.

Thanks again,

Thanks for the kind words, John.

He speaks! Allen, I realize you are a man of few words. A friend says he thinks your that your replies are actually a type of Japanese koan. Here I was judging you by western standards of not saying much because when your positions are weak, logic shakey (but forced on unfortuneate citizens by forces of petty corruption) that the best policy is to say as little as possible. I'm coming to see we both may be right. So domo, arrigato, Mr Roboto!

ps again another mtg last night Allen...No more diversity in the offing? I weep with you.

Som John, how did you react to the news of the three racially segregated school districts being created in Omaha, Nebraska?

I think it's b.s. counter-productive balkanization. All phases of education would suffer. Nobody up here EVER, EVER wanted anything like that.

SW High is 40% minority. Anybody that can't handle racial mixing had already split, Allen. (actually shouldn't say that, there's a mass exodus both geographic and to private schools as we speak-people have finally had enough-not because of racsim but because of Kearnsism.) People here are re-acting against long bus rides. People are reacting against dis-enfranchisement and alienation from their local school. People are re-acting against loss of self determination. People are re-acting against Dot Kearns coming to an auditorium of 600+ people and telling them that their opinions as parents are invalid and meaningless but since their kid's skins are white they can maybe help her and her school out, people are reacting against being abandoned by their local governments, the Action Greensboro's (we see Jim Melvin backing Kearns/Grier but not standing on top of Jefferson Pilot and shouting Grimsley to Dudley) and the Guilford Educational Alliances that have decided write off SW High as some kind of burnt offering to the sham racial appeasement policies based on both electoral advantage and collective guilt due to High Point and Greensboro's aparthied legacy, of lunch counters and Clan shootings etc. etc. that is politics as usual in this county and has been since the sixties. Most of all, they are re-acting against the logic that High Point needs educational diversity and Greensboro doesn't.