Monday, 8/25/97 Letters
Headline misleading I was quite displeased when I opened the August 18-24 Daily Bruin to find a headline and cartoon associated with my article that severely misrepresented what I wrote. The cartoon showed a two-headed elephant whose heads appeared extremely angry with each other, under the headline, "Big trouble in a little tent?" This gives the impression that the article is about some deep rift in the Republican Party. The theme of my article was quite clearly that intra-party differences are minor and healthy, and that the party unifies during each election to try to defeat liberal Democrats. The contrast between what I wrote and what you put on top of it is as stark as the contrast would be if you were to give this letter the title "Pleased as punch." You should be careful not to let such misrepresentations occur,or you'll find that writers will be reluctant to write for you twice. MacLane Key Graduate student computer science