This is a patently ridiculous argument by opponents to Eagon’s idea. The pro-impeachment crowd sent hundreds of people to various meetings. It meant nothing. It changed nothing. Students could/should e-mail the Council, but no one argues low income residents need be present every single time the Council gets together to debate social services. Which is often, btw.

Yes the Badger Herald, so brave, so controversial! Ha

I think the advertisers should start boycotting the BH for such a childish response to one business person’s OPINION. Disagree with the BH, and the BH will be out to shut you down.

“We have already taken the idealistic stand. Now is the time to make a pragmatic and productive one.”

“As an Editorial Board, we fully intend to push this issue — and support this boycott — until Mr. Shapiro changes his position.”

So the Editorial Board thinks it’s productive to attain “agreement” by beating people into submission by attempting to ruin their business?

And what idealistic stand are they referring to? The Editorial Board’s stand from the beginning was: Mr. Shapiro doesn’t agree with us, let’s make him suffer.

Furthermore, an ideological stand is something that one doesn’t push to the side in favor of practical matters - not if the ideology is worth anything. If the Herald’s ideological is so weak that they feel arguing for it is not practical, maybe they should question their ideology.

If the Editorial Board thinks a student should have voting right on the ACLU, it should buckle-down and come up with some convincing arguments.

I agree with everything being said here. In addition, I think the Herald is abusing its power as a student voice, as I have yet to find a student who, when confronted with the same facts the editors were, have reached the same conclusion. Everyone I’ve talked to is a little upset by the idea of a public figure in our community downplaying our abilities and skills, but at the same time, is able to put the idea of a boycott in perspective, and realizes that boycotts hurt the dependents of an institution (in this case the employees) more than the institution itself.

In addition, the Herald has lost sight of the fact that Marsh Shapiro said this while acting as the representative for the greater Dane County Tavern League, and to be “sticking to their idealist principals”, the Herald should really be calling for a boycott of ALL bars in Dane County; however, this is too broad a statement, and clearly does not play into the BH’s faux-activist “ideology”, for it requires an entire lifestyle shift for all involved in the boycott, which doesn’t play well to the ears of people who are already on the fence regarding this issue and the Herald’s overreaction to it.

THANK GOD we have the utterly fearless,recklessly brave Herald editorial staff to protect us from a kindly,70 year old grandfather and small business owner.Good thing we have the Herald staff to focus on what’s really important to the student’s future,instead of wasting time on things like the collapse of the consumer economy,the awful post grad job market,two unwinnable wars,the coming crash in the value of advanced degrees as the supply increases exponentially,and the effect on students of the thoughtfulness of Citibank raising card rates to 30% for many.Thank you Herald staff,for separating the wheat from the chaff for those of us unable to see what’s really important.