Way to go DN
Well, the Daily Nebraskan is once again under fire from the Greek system, who can’t seem to understand that the DN has much better things to do than attempt to bring down their shaky little society.
The Daily Nebraskan recently ran a fantastic series on college drinking, sending reporters across the country to campuses in California, Wisconsin and Colorado, among other locations. Well, a few of those stories, a year after a drinking-related student death in Colorado, looked at drinking and the Greek system at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (try this, and this , both by Jenna Johnson).
And once again, the Greek system has responded by claiming the DN is trying to bring them down and destroy them. One letter even suggested that, since Greek recruitment is down, the DN should sweep issues like this under the rug, because reporting reality might make people not want to join up.
Recently, a Facebook group started up called Greeks Against the Daily Nebraskan (you need to have a facebook account to view that, unfortunately). Here’s their mission statement: “This is s (sic) group for all the greeks that hate the Daily Nebraskan because they have managed to take the greek system one more step backward, when we are trying to move forward!”
A few of us joined up, but they sniffed us out and booted us from the group.
But there are still people out there who think that their self-appointed social superiority entitles them to immunity from news coverage. I guess in that way, the Greek system is good preparation for the real world.
That animation is by DN photographer Greg Blobaum; the DN “X” logo is by the Greeks Against the Daily Nebraskan group.