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2.7.08
published on 04/24/08
Letters to the Editor | Cover image poorly represented Class Issues Alliance
Students of the Class Issues Alliance want to briefly take issue with The Miscellany News cover choice for the 3.27.08 issue, in which the newspaper gave generous coverage of our regional, intercollegiate Class Issues Conference. We realize this is a few weeks after the fact, but we hope that by dealing with this publicly, The Miscellany News will in the future consider the wishes and ask the consent of its contacts when choosing images that are supposed to represent or be associated with those contacts.
For those who forget or didn’t see, the front cover was blanketed by what looked like Soviet propaganda—four burly, male, mostly white workers holding books (presumably Marx) in the air triumphantly. This is problematic because the image underrepresents working women as well as working people of color. The image also pigeon-holes our group’s ideology.
The Class Issues Alliance organizes around issues, not ideology. Our membership includes anarchists, communists, progressives, liberals, moderates, in-betweens and un-classifiable students.
The Miscellany News image also implies that our group is heading to the barricades against President Catharine Bond Hill and the College’s administration when in reality we have received their earnest and useful support and anticipate their future assistance.
We realize that deadlines can promote carelessness, but at the very least we hope this can be an educative moment. Thanks for your time.
—Thomas Facchine ’11, on behalf of the Class Issues Alliance
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Alumnae/i posters are strongly encouraged to include their class year with their name. The maximum length for comments is approximately 100 words; longer responses should be submitted as letters to the editor to misc@vassar.edu. More information about our letters policy can be found on our Policies page.
