Discuss “Letter to the editor”

When I read The Tartan’s well-argued editorial criticizing The Daily Princetonian for its bigoted attempt at humor in a recent “joke issue,” I kept waiting for the part about The Tartan’s own joke issue fiasco: the 2004 April Fools’ Day “Natrat.” Only it never came.

Am I that old? Has so much time passed that the Carnegie Mellon community has forgotten the national attention we received for our newspaper’s own disgusting attempt at humor, which ran the hateful gamut from casual use of the N-word to an infantile poem about violent rape?

No. It wasn’t even three years ago. There are surely current students, staff, and faculty who remember the well-earned fallout from that issue. As such, The Tartan missed a unique editorial...