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editor's note
When you make a joke,
there is always a chance
someone won't laugh
Such has been the case
with the Emerald and its his
tory of satirical issues that
began long ago with The
Scarlet Letter. Today's debut
of Not the Emerald will un
doubtedly raise some
humorless hackles
The risk you run with satire
is that people take it too se
riously.
Re: the fall term spoof of
Oregon State University's
Barometer. We thought it
was funny and in good taste
We had it checked for libel.
OSU journalism professors,
students and staff members
complemented us. Ba
rometer staff members com
plemented us. Although we
received a few anonymous
"this-is-trash" type of notes
in the mail, the response to
the "Barometer" was over
whelmingly positive.
But D M. Kornmann, office
manager of the University's
Community Education
Centers was not amused.
She was enraged.
She quickly fired off a let
ter to the ASUO asking the
executive to join her prior
restraint crusade to "stop
future creations '" She said
the Barometer spoof was
sadistic and "will undoubta
bly create a great deal of
anger and it would not be
surprising if PHYSICAL
VIOLENCE results because
of this publication." (Capi
tals from original letter)
She ended her letter with a
plea to "BRING PRIDE'
BACK TO THE UNIVERSITY
OF OREGON CAMPUS.*’
The style of the letter was
extremely similar to an
unsigned letter that was sent
to Emerald advertisers urg
ing them to withdraw their
business and “help ELIMIN
ATE TRASH."
I wrote her back, agreeing
that in the past, the Emerald
has taken, uhm, liberties in
the content of the Immorald
and other spoofs I told her I
thought the Baremeter was a
good-natured spoof, void of
dirty words and sexual in
nuendos.
In return she called me
naive, insensitive and insult
ing “People who have never
PAID THE PRICE find it
EASY to be CRITICS and
FANS, don't they?"
I began to write another
letter, then gave up. We ob
viously weren't going to
agree on the merits of satire
Kornmann is an extreme
example of a critic of the
Emerald's sense of humor,
but today we ll probably be
answering again to people
who don’t think the Emerald
staff has a sense of humor
And probably a few who
think the issue is too mild
This year's April Fool's
edition was— like the Ba
remeter — kept "clean’ and
was proofed for libel The
name was changed from the
Immorald to Not the Emerald
for graphic reasons and
because of the connotations
of bad taste that are linked to
the previous name
Still, someone is not going
to laugh at the spoof
We think it's worth the risk
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