During my Senior year at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, I honed my column writing with an almost daily column as editorial editor for the BG News; I used most of them to fill holes in the editorial page. It was a fun year for me and resulted in my best-selling book “Ever Had Any Reason to Doubt Me Before.” It was my best-selling book, not that it was on any best selling lists…. except mine.
I think this gives you a fun, yet revealing look at Ohio college life in the 1970s.
Here is one of those columns.
Writing Off into the Sunset
October 28, 1977
Wanted: one BG News editorial editor beginning spring quarter.Must enjoy daily grinds, correcting English, working with puzzles, taking personal literary attacks, dealing with irate,unmoving, confused and narrow-minded persons and skipping class.
Anyone interested in that glamorous job should inquire in the News office, for the name of a trained counselor.
As my term as editorial editor comes to a close, I wish to express some thoughts, hypotheses and tips about handling the job.
FIRST, A HYPOTHESIS: The more ridiculous a column subject, the more likely someone will write an equally ridiculous rebuttal. Although page two did deal with such substantive issues as the Panama Canal, affirmative action plans, computers, parking services and the Advisory Committee for General Fee Allocations (ACGFA), the greatest and most heated responses came from letters about such significant issues as drunken women and finding God under a rock.
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