Discuss “Letter to the Editor”

The Carnegie Mellon community can easily recognize that readme’s recent publication was unacceptable. What people might not realize was that the problem was long in the making. Two years ago, while I was executive officer of The Tartan (a position now called publisher) I worked to rebuild it after a similar incident. That year, many people strove to build in new layers of accountability and oversight and professionalized the incredible copy and layout teams that bring you The Tartan every week. During this time period, readme faltered. No longer the clever newsletter I remembered from my first years, the quality decreased and soon readme began to miss issues.

I realized that readme’s problems resembled those of the old Tartan: poor staffing,...