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<p>I thought by reading the piece which you recommended, that there would a separate point of view. I don’t know Makowsky from anyone else in the story. I thought the opinion piece you linked would show ‘that most of the quotes were obtained under false pretenses,’ so when I read the piece I was disappointed.</p>
<p>In other words, next time, get to the point, and quit wasting people’s time. If you’re going to make accusations, link to prove.</p>
<p>Makowsky didn’t say anything enlightening or different from the Chronc article. We know not all the classes on The List were micks because the Chronc article STATED this. So I don’t know what your intentions were in linking the Makowsky piece.</p>
<p>I don’t really care if Makowsky was an amateur journalist and now professional or that he was referring to his fellow journalists from the Stanford paper as amateurs and the Chronc and Merc people as professionals. </p>
<p>Makowsky begins the article stating when he first saw the list as seemingly long, long ago as a frosh (say seven years ago, but in reality three). He continues distancing himself form the journalistic crew from Stanford, which I thought was a displacement of time, in which case I thought he was a professional journalist now. Anyway, I don’t care, and I agree it’s really a non-issue. </p>
<p>Therefore the story doesn’t need your hypersensitive support of Stanford to prove that the school didn’t do anything wrong. It didn’t. Any list the school puts forth wouldn’t have all micks because that would be complete school administrative backing of easier courses for athletes. But now you know when students pass this list on among themselves, the harder courses will be taken out. </p>
<p>As for those supposedly misquoted, obviously you’re going to support the professor who made the supposed/alleged remark. This in your eyes would do less damage to Stanford by placing the blame on the student journalists and two papers involved. But again, in truth, there’s no damage, no harm, other than what we already knew: all schools including The Farm have mick courses and athletes tend to find them.</p>