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In response to “April election set for Spring Break”:
This story is misleading. The headline itself makes it sound as though Wisconsin decided to hold the Spring elections during Spring Break. A more effective headline would have been “UW sets Spring Break during week of Spring Elections”. The claim in the article itself that elections during Spring Break will disenfranchise student voters is ridiculous as well. However, if that is a real concern, then the students can blame the UW for being disenfranchised.
If, as stated, the Spring break is immoveable, then instead of emphasizing the influence such a decision will have on elections, it should instead take a more proactive stance and make alerting students to the need to plan to vote absentee or in advance of their departure for Spring Break the primary focus.
Angela Close Junior English Major
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No, it’s poor scheduling. Obviously there are ways around the conflicting dates, but there should NOT have been this type of scheduling in the first place.
That may have been the most ridiculous LTE I’ve ever read. It doesn’t say anything. At all.
English major? Really?
spring break is set 10 years in advance…this wasn’t some big surprise
How did this get published? Badger Herald: we need quality letters! Then again, if you’re trying to spark reader involvement…it worked; I’m writing on the comment board.
For an English major, the writer has a surprisingly limited understanding of how newspapers work. The person who writes the article usually doesn’t get to write the headline.