Remove vulgarity from Sohcahtoa

I really enjoy reading the Wildcat every day, and I don't mean to complain, but every Thursday something in your paper really bothers me. It is your rating system in the Sohcahtoa CD review section. The vulgar gesture associated with a bad rating is indecent enough, but then you have to go ahead and use a profanity to describe it, as well. I am shocked that you would allow either to be printed in you highly regarded and well-respected publication. Isn't there another less offensive way you could rate the bad music? I'm not asking you to revert back to the traditional, boring five-star rating system, but I am asking you to reconsider your use of vulgarity and profanity to rate CDs you consider to be bad out of decency and respect for those of us still left in society that are offended by the vulgarity and profanity that you allow to be printed in your paper. To print profanity quoted in a news story or Police Beat is one thing, but to print it without any justification when other more appropriate words could be used to say or express the same thing is quite another. I don't think this frivolous, distasteful, disrespectful use of vulgarity and profanity is either necessary or decent, and I hope out of consideration for your more sensitive readers you will think about changing this one minor, but offensive, detail. I doubt that anyone would be offended if you made the appropriate change, but I know plenty of us who will remain offended if you don't. Thank you.

By Shayla D. Wiertzema (letter)
Arizona Daily Wildcat
March 5, 1997