Letter to the Editor
When sumbitting a letter to the editor of The Utah Statesman — for publication — please note the following guidelines and suggestions. Those letters can be•sent via e-mail to statesman@cc.usu.edu,
•FAXED to (435) 797-1760
•Mailed to Editor/Statesman, PO Box 1249-USU, Logan, UT 843222-0165 (on campus mai use: 0165)
•Hand delivered to Taggart Center 105
• or you can use the submission box found on this page.
• All letters must include student name, student number and local phone number. and/or email address (USU e-mail address). Phone number, e-mail address and student number are not published, but may be used to verify authenticity of letter writer.
• Letters from faculty or staff should include department and phone number (Phone number not published.)
• Letters should be limited to 350 words.
• Writers must wait 21 days before sumbitting successive letters or second responses—no exceptions.
• No anonymous letters will be published.
• Letters should not indicate they are from “groups” or associations or clubs or represent massive numbers of people. Only the spokesman, president or first person whose name appears on a list of multiple writers will be published. In other words, a letter from “USU College Democrats” will not published as such. The letter will be signed “Joe Blow, president, USU College Democrats.”
• Letters should deal with policies, not personalities; with issues, not individuals. Letters that resort to namecalling, durogatory inference and bad tatste will not be published.
• All letters may be shortened, edited or rejected for reasons of good taste, redundancy or volume of similar letters. Editor will strive to keep most letters intact and will attempt to contact letter writer when severe editing is needed.
PUT YOUR TELEPHONE NUMBER WITH YOUR NAME AT THE END OF THE LETTER for folllow-up contact from The Student Editor.
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