Staff Editorial: Announcing our anger
Staff Editorial
Issue date: 2/9/10 Section: Opinion
In the last few years, millions of dollars have surely been spent on recruiting new students, on admissions gimmicks and on the endless parade of propaganda churned out by our own Marketing and Communications Office. While prospective students appear to be worth all that trouble, the minimal effort required to fix the e-mails we all get daily doesn't appear to be worth it.
'Community, innovation, cutting-edge,' these all sound great to admissions officers and prospective students. But to us who have already committed to Hamline, who trudge through every day, not one of these abstract concepts seems to mean much to our administration in a real and tangible way.
Sophmores, juniors, and seniors have the benefit of knowing other ways to learn about events on campus, through networking, word of mouth, Facebook, etc. However, first-years likely unsubscribed months ago, uncertain of what exactly the CLA digest was "announcing." They don't know its usefulness, nor do they have a year or two to familiarize themselves with different orgs and their events. What a loss.
'Community, innovation, cutting-edge,' these all sound great to admissions officers and prospective students. But to us who have already committed to Hamline, who trudge through every day, not one of these abstract concepts seems to mean much to our administration in a real and tangible way.
Sophmores, juniors, and seniors have the benefit of knowing other ways to learn about events on campus, through networking, word of mouth, Facebook, etc. However, first-years likely unsubscribed months ago, uncertain of what exactly the CLA digest was "announcing." They don't know its usefulness, nor do they have a year or two to familiarize themselves with different orgs and their events. What a loss.
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