Alcohol

Alcohol is a very sensitive subject here at Western like most places. At the recent Board of Governors, Dan Danford brought it up again.

The idea that was brought up was that alcohol namely wine, should be served at special events like the convocation dinners and formal events like that.

The topic has been brought up several times before like with the building of the Fulkerson Center, but the News-Press and KQ2 ran the story like it was a big announcement.

At the Griffon News we did not overplay it like the other media and focused on the entire meeting and not just alcohol.

Yes alcohol on campus is big news but they just brought up the idea and did not say yes on it. If they actually allowed then it would be big news but they did not.

It is a good lesson on finding the balance of report the story truthfully and not sensationalizing a part of it that is still not reality. We at the Griffon News took the conservative approach at talked also about the incubator as well.

We could ramp up the font of the headline and have alcohol as the biggest word on the front page and get a lot of looks at our newspaper but we would not be good journalists.

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