Ever since the three editors were fired from the Daily for posing in Toons, the Daily has been repeatedly asserting Andrea Hauser’s right to hire and fire editors. From where I sit, the Daily is trying to argue the wrong issue. This became clear with the editorial condemning GSB’s resolution against Hauser. It stated that GSB has no reason to be discussing Daily business, even if students are interested in the issue. While GSB may not have authority over the Daily, I believe that Hauser is allowing her pride, instead of her good judgment, to dictate her actions.

GSB represents the students at Iowa State University, the same students that make up a good portion of the readership of the Daily. This resolution was nothing more than an official declaration of the outrage the vast majority of students feel in regard to Hauser’s decision to fire the three editors. It was very obvious from the majority of the letters printed in the Daily that most students disagreed with Hauser’s decision, but the GSB resolution makes it “official” with big symbolic letters that say, “The students didn’t like that.”

The Daily is a business, more or less, and as such relies on customers for its continued existence. First letters and now GSB have made it very clear that students are displeased with the way Hauser handled the “Daily Three.” When a large majority of your customers don’t like something, good business sense dictates you change it. But Hauser seems far more interested in proving that she is right and we are wrong.

In reality, it doesn’t matter. Without reader support, the Daily would cease to exist. Being “right” or “wrong” doesn’t change that fact. But instead of trying to fix the situation, Hauser is telling readers that their opinions are not important because she has the right to do whatever she wants regardless of what her customers think about it. Does Hauser have the right to hire and fire whoever she wants? Yes, but a better question would be, do the readers have to support a publication they don’t agree with? I think we all know the answer to that one.

Brian Lund

Freshman

Computer engineering