I would like to express my dismay in the abundance of letters to the editor regarding The Cavalier Daily comics.
The Cavalier Daily, a student-run daily publication, is intended to inform and entertain a broad and diverse population of students, faculty, alumni, and anyone else with access to it in print or online. It would be an impossible task to please everyone who fits this readership, and for the readers to have that expectation is ridiculous. It is especially ludicrous because we readers are not even paying subscribers who actually help employ the staff. If you are offended by a certain writer or artist, why continue reading their material? I read the paper everyday and I often skip articles or comics that do not appeal to me for whatever reason; however, I would not consider The Cavalier Daily at fault. I would not accuse the staff of bland reporting that does not interest the student body, nor would I complain that the quality of entertainment itself is lacking.
Nowadays, it seems that any and all groups of people considered minorities, any and all religious affiliations, any and all genders are off-limits to the comics artists. I believe they should have the freedom to create what they wish to, and The Cavalier Daily should not be forced to censor material (unless they are directly libelous to someone or visually obscene) because certain people will be offended. People will always be offended by something, and of course they are allowed to express that, but they should not expect a change in content or harsher censoring. Why are we to live in an environment where entertainment that pushes boundaries is forbidden?
Instead of being personally offended by a particular artist, why not use the material to start up a discussion among your peers, boycott the publication, or submit your own ‘non-controversial’ comic? Readers sure seem to expect a great deal of limitations on and requirements for a free newspaper — a newspaper on which a large body of passionate college students generously choose to spend their time, a newspaper that is supposed to be a forum of free expression, a newspaper that is printed for a college campus, a supposedly open-minded community.
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