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JAMES CLARK Editor in Chief

News nnd PeururesEditor

DEAN TJEPKEMA Layout Coordint1tor

Staff Writer

MARY GLASGOW Photo fournalist

BETH KEllHER Ad Sales

RUBYSOHO

Sex Columnist

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by JarnesClark

There is an olu song that .1sksthe 4ue~tio11, "why docs hc have to be such an angry you11gman?" Kris Lind, why are yOll so bitter at the Cuscade? I am not gning to make this another diu1rihe like the one you printed in the Toque. I'm sick of this whnlc Toque versus the Cascade thing. I guess it was bound to happen. ln the immortal words or thut crack adi.Jledjunkie Rodney King. "Can't we all jl1st get along'?"

I really have to udn1irc ytiu, Kris. for being so idealistic und at the same lime so under• hunded. [ believe that it was you who said that people should think before they speak. You could have also added that people who intemJ lo publish something should first get the permission frnm the writer or at lea~t let them know. But hey wusn't it you who also said that we shouldn't let this "good" journalism get personal?

Now time lo answer somc or your rather personal questions. Kris as you kn(lw, I was in New Zealand over the sum111er. RcmcrnbC'r when I came into the oftice ,lf(llllld lhe end uf spring semester and told you'! Remember it wa~ lhC' time whcn I wished ynu luck for the upcoming season and congn11ula1edyou un getting the job thut I have now and said that if you needed help you should call me?

Kris J under-tand your concerns about editorial control over the Castadc. I know that you care passionately about the Cascade nnd that you didn't realize that implying the Cuscude is un SUS puppet, managed by someone with no ni!w:-.paper experience, would be considered "slaging" to someone who has worked on the Cascade for four years. I thought that I had made i1 clear to you when we spoke before your paper wenl to print that we conrorm to the CUP editorial guidelines not the sus·s.Js that clenr now? There were several reasons that the Cascadewas late lo print this year. The lack of carryovcr staff was a problem, so were the password locks on the computers and that we all got hired so late. (The locked co111puterswere not due to some kind of Touqeish plot 10 sabotage the Cascade, in fact both Conrad and Jeff from The Toque did try to help us, thanks for the help guys.) I thought that ynu knew all of this s\uff, why do you keep bringin~ it up? Look Kris, I never knew you well enough to c.ill you a frienu but I thought that we at least shared a 11111wnlrespect or one unothcr. I tried tn help you ou1 as mu<;h us I could when the Toque was starting 0\11 and I don't like the implication that the Cascade and the SUS arc oul to get yrn,i. I can '1 speuk for the SUS. who arc piggies ai the trough. but I really don't want to get into some kind of yelling 111atch.Except with reople who try to justify their 1000% wage increase hy saying that the money makes 1he111more efficient but it $till takes them three weeks 10 print out an ad sales C1Jntrac1.We should also question people who justify a 50% Cascade wage reduction on the basis that lhc money just isn't there; then they increase their pay by us much as 1000% percent. I wish you nothing but the best in future issues. As for our newspaper war, l' 111 sure that there must be some critical issue that deserves more press hint, hint.