Archive for the ‘Letters to the Editor’ Category

Letter to the Editor

Friday, November 13th, 2009

Dear Pilot,
The 10-30-09 Pilot article “A new leaf for the Sheaf” reported  “…a couple of things
went wrong in last year’s Sheaf.”  Mentioned were half the Anderson House pictures missing and several photos being used twice.  Talk about understatement.
How’s this for a couple more things gone WAY wrong: Forty-four percent of the senior class photos are missing!!  Only 72 [...]

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10/16/09 Letters to the Editor

Friday, October 16th, 2009

Letters to the Editors of the Pilot, discussing efforts to reduce paper use, President Obama’s address to school children, and the level of vitriol in current political discourse.

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Letters to the Editor 05.29.09

Friday, May 29th, 2009

Three letters to the editor from the Principia community and beyond.

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Retraction

Friday, May 1st, 2009

The Pilot would like to correct a comment attributed to Philosophy professor Chris Young in the “Prin News in Brief” article that appeared in our April 17, 2009, edition.

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Letter to the Editor

Friday, May 1st, 2009

I would like to say that I appreciated the editorial “Morally stifled” in the last issue of the Principia Pilot, as well as the recently conducted polls about house hours and locks.

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Letter to the Editor 2.20.06

Friday, February 20th, 2009

Dear Editors,

I very much appreciated your recent informative articles on the suspension of the football program and the school’s budget. It is important that we all feel like we have the facts behind decisions that are challenging to accept and the role of the Pilot in providing this information is vital to our community.

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Letter to the Editors

Friday, January 23rd, 2009

College President Jonathan Palmer and the Board of Trustees decided that the future of Principia lies in the semester system. I think, to put it lightly, the student body disagrees. In fact, as a student, I believe I am not alone when I say that I am upset at the way this decision was presented to us in the end. I may be making this issue bigger than it is, but it appeared that Dr. Palmer buried this extremely important news in a multi-subject email. This announcement deserved at least its own email. I personally would have preferred him to tell us to our faces. If the rationale for this move was actually “a compelling combination of administrative, scheduling, athletic, and academic improvements,” I think a meeting would have been a facile motion for the President.

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