Mess Piece: Are they serious

I was just sitting and thinking about the Counterweight critique in the last issue of the Mess. The main point made was that the Counterweight should really serve as a forum for bi-partisan dialouge instead of the bastion of ultra-right wing idealogy it has become. I just don't understand how this is logical. We are a conservative newspaper who is going to talk about conservative things. Don't you think the main school newspaper (the Mess) would be a much better place for bi-partisan dialouge. To think that there is a place of bi-partisan dialouge on this campus is a laughable assumption, and I feel it is a great idea. But to place responsibility for this lack of consensus building on the conservative students newspaper? I feel that this is sorely misplaced. If the mess wants to point out that we are to the right, (which we come out and say) isn't it very hypocritical for them as the "representative, journalistic paper" to be even slightly left (which they obviously are). I think they could do a lot more to encourage bi-partisan dialouge and alienating the few conservative students on campus with great editorials like this isn't a good start.

-de Tocqueville