TO THE EDITOR:
“Conservative Heat,” (March 2) which appeared in Tuesday’s edition of The Daily Tar Heel demonstrated an embarrassingly low level of professionalism.
The article, which reported on David Horowitz’s speech, did not adequately summarize Horowitz’s thoughts or gauge the reaction of the campus. Horowitz presented a nuanced argument for why students are being defrauded of a proper education in a system where many classes only assign reading from the liberal perspective.
However, the article simply summarized Horowitz’s speech by mentioning a comment about how UNC “is a typical college atmosphere” and quoting, “You can’t get a good education if you’re only telling half the story.”
With only a few unrelated sentences even attempting to summarize Horowitz’s words, there was not the slightest pretense of dealing with the actual content of the speech.
The utter lack of professionalism was most apparent in the last paragraph, which misrepresented me. The article quotes me as saying that I enjoyed the speech “although [I] was surprised by Horowitz’s comments. ‘He was less radical than I expected.’”
What I meant was I was pleased that he stuck to presenting the intellectual side of the conservative argument. I had been worried that he would have said something radical that we on the Carolina Review do not support. As it stands, the article clearly misrepresents my statements and insinuates that I was disappointed that Horowitz was not a radical. This is exactly the opposite of what I was saying.
Chase McDonough
Freshman
English, Business
