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THE
AZWIPE AWARD To the WORST of SDSU's crappus newspaper and the people who make it possible. Graphics by Victor Hernandez. |
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MONTEZUMA'S REAR-END: The coveted statue (judging from all the crap printed so far) is awarded to those whose work belongs at the bottom, who have added yet another crack to their newspaper's credibility, and who, therefore, deserve to be the butt of this joke. It is glow in the dark and scratch and sniff, providing the recipients with the same smell their work provides us.
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THE NOMINEES FOR THE WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 11-19, 1998 ARE:
KATE NELSON
Setting up the example for the rest of her crew, editor in chief Nelson went on to rant an entire column about the MTV Video Music Awards (HOW RELEVANT!) in an arts page that features a VAN GOGH on its title header (See September 17, 1998 edition.) We wonder if Ms. Nelson realizes that there is a difference between fine Art and corporate-created entertainment.
STEVE TROOP
For using the characters of cartoonists Watterson, Breathed, and Larson in his Melonpool comic strip. Dude, there is this thing called "USING YOUR OWN STUFF." (Then again with the examples set by Jim Davis shamefully using Schulz's devices, and Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman outright copying Watterson's, who can blame him?) Professors of Mr. Troop: you might want to keep an eye on him during exams, though.
DAVID HANNA and SHAWN JANSEN
Normally sports writers are automatically awarded with Montezuma's Rear-end, but this time Mr. Hanna and Mr. Jansen do deserve a special mention for wasting over half a page (September 17, 1998) ranting about Sosa and McGwire (HOW RELEVANT!) Yeah, like the rest of the media hasn't saturated us with that crap already. We only have one question for these two gentlemen: WHO THE F*CK CARES?
WHOEVER IS MAINTAINING THE DAMN DAILY AZTEC WEBPAGE
Certainly deserved, since thanks to his/her negligence the search engine doesn't work, and we can't include pictures of the nominees here (which is sort of interesting considering the mess of HTML that page has.) On top of that, the only editions of the paper available are those from last semester and before. Sheesh! Even WE are more up to date than they are!
AND WINNER IS:
EVAN DONALDSON
For an editorial against bilingual education so pathetically lacking in logic that an assistant professor of education had to correct him step by step (see Jill Kerper Mora's letter to the editor from the September 17, 1998 edition), pointing out his major fallacies (see your local Logic Professor for the definition of a fallacy.) Congratulations Evan! You have demonstrated that you are truly an AZWIPE. It is because of works like yours this award is possible.
Evan's honor is, of course, also shared by, both, the opinion editor and the editor in chief, who let this fine example of lack of professionalism to be printed. You may now feel free to add a copy of Montezuma's Rear-end to your resumes.
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