In this column, UNC-Greensboro Carolinian editor Joe Killian ? who achieved national fame a couple of weeks ago when he wrote “it’s not hard to imagine that on November 3rd, if the election can be called by then, there might be a sort of grim mass exodus from this sad planet should Bush pull this election out,” especially from “[m]y generation [who] may be particularly vulnerable to the urge to lay back in a warm bath and open up their veins as chants of ‘Four More Years’ echo horribly from every 24 hour cable news station” ? wrote to address his readers who’re upset about the new, more “traditional” section editor in the paper.
It seems that The Carolinian no longer has an Arts & Entertainment editor inclined to write about his experiences in an S&M club, how watching fellows in the adjacent urinal turn him on, ad nauseam, but instead has someone who’s gone back to a “more traditional” A&E approach, even changing its name to “campus lifestyles” and made it “a lot more campus centered.”
This, you’ll note, is the sort of thing that needs to be addressed at UNCG. We learn that those who complained about the previous editor were told he wrote about something that “exists” and if they didn’t like it, tough. The critics of the current editor, whose interests also presumably exist, were told that if they don’t like it, well … “we need a new section.” It will “usher in a new sex column as well as “surreal and often demented cartooning” and “a number of other features that are off the beaten track.”
And if you don’t like the new section, “turn the page.”
Addendum: My mole at UNCG informs me that the rumor that this will be the new UNCG sex columnist is misinformed. Even if she’s cited as having the same qualifications as UNCG’s last sex columnist ? “She sure talks about that stuff a lot.”
