Quality of Profiles Favor Certain Tickets

To the editors:

I read with great fascination your feature articles on the various Undergraduate Council presidential candidates, and I was taken aback by what seems a most noticeable difference in the quality of reportage devoted to the different campaigns. It is clear that, while the teams writing about Darling-Patel and Plants-Wikler were quite thorough in their investigations, the articles devoted to the other two-person teams were sorely lacking.

The report on Leonard-Tenney, for example, includes no quotes from people other than Leonard and Tenney. Likewise for Driskell-Burton, where the candidates are the only people quoted--promising, among other things, to keep all their promises.

Contrast this with the profile of Plants-Wikler, where two other people are quoted, as well as that of Darling-Patel, where two opponents are quoted extensively, and the reporters even called up someone at Ohio State. On the other hand, we do not get to find out where Darling or Plants grew up, a clearly vital fact. (Texas and Michigan, respectively).

In all, it is not so much the style of the articles that I am complaining about, but the fact that, clearly, they were not written with equal effort or intent. I can only feel sorry for the Leonard and Driskell camps, whose profiles are exercises in vapidity that can presumably only be rivaled by the vapidity, at least in the view of the editorial board, of all the candidates themselves.