WGKR, Reconsider Your Programming
By: Patrick Jarkowsky
Issue date: 12/15/09 Section: Editorial
If any of these scenarios were to occur, they would more than likely be followed by legal action against the University.
As for the SGO, you are the leaders of this University. You should be looking out for the concerns of the students as well as the University. By allowing this flier to be posted and therefore extending your tacit endorsement of the program, you've left students open to public ridicule, possible blackmail, and the threat of violent retribution while simultaneously leaving the University open to legal damage.
And for those who would argue on WGKR's behalf, if you feel that they would never divulge the information that I've mentioned above, and I will admit that the scenarios I've outlined are quite extreme, then what is the purpose of this program? Is it to divulge trivial information? If so, then I have to ask, why is WGKR so concerned with the private lives of the NJCU community? What right do they have to divulge any private information?
I understand that the above scenarios may have never entered the minds of the creators of DIRT, the leaders of WGKR, or the SGO, and having met many of these individuals, I don't believe them to be irresponsible or reckless, but the mere possibility of these scenarios makes this program a bad idea.
Our privacy may have been whittled away thanks to President George W. Bush and the telecommunications companies that followed his orders, the Internet, TMZ and US Weekly, and social networking sites such as Facebook, but that shouldn't excuse the actions of WGKR.
So please, WGKR, with all due respect, keep your nose out of the private business of the NJCU community and do what a radio station is supposed to do.
As for the SGO, you are the leaders of this University. You should be looking out for the concerns of the students as well as the University. By allowing this flier to be posted and therefore extending your tacit endorsement of the program, you've left students open to public ridicule, possible blackmail, and the threat of violent retribution while simultaneously leaving the University open to legal damage.
And for those who would argue on WGKR's behalf, if you feel that they would never divulge the information that I've mentioned above, and I will admit that the scenarios I've outlined are quite extreme, then what is the purpose of this program? Is it to divulge trivial information? If so, then I have to ask, why is WGKR so concerned with the private lives of the NJCU community? What right do they have to divulge any private information?
I understand that the above scenarios may have never entered the minds of the creators of DIRT, the leaders of WGKR, or the SGO, and having met many of these individuals, I don't believe them to be irresponsible or reckless, but the mere possibility of these scenarios makes this program a bad idea.
Our privacy may have been whittled away thanks to President George W. Bush and the telecommunications companies that followed his orders, the Internet, TMZ and US Weekly, and social networking sites such as Facebook, but that shouldn't excuse the actions of WGKR.
So please, WGKR, with all due respect, keep your nose out of the private business of the NJCU community and do what a radio station is supposed to do.
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