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Re: [APO-L] Question on UMOC and UT Austin
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Packy Anderson)
Wed Oct 8 12:33:34 2003
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 12:33:24 -0400
Reply-To: Packy Anderson <packy@dardan.com>
From: Packy Anderson <packy@dardan.com>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
In-Reply-To: <F32001085EA6D211B61B00805F6FE69E04EAD820@exchsv2.ogsnet.ogs.state.ny.us>
On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Vehlow, Richard wrote:
> In the winter of early 1963, after being voted "ugliest man on campus" by
> small minded, petty students, Janis decided to hitchhike to San Francisco
> with Chet Helms..."
> Definitely a two-edged sword here- leaving college after this incident
> fueled her music career, but also may have fueled depression. Or so the
> article seems to imply.
This may also be a case of an editorialist not knowing everything. The
writer of this quote may know that Janis was voted UMoC in 1963 and that
she left the campus soon after. However, the source the writer was using
may not have mentioned whether or not Janis intentionally ran in the
contest and whether she viewed being voted UMoC as a positive thing. If
these bit of information were missing from the writer's source, the writer
merely _assumed_ that it was a small-minded and petty thing.
YiLFS,
-packy
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