“So this is my last column,” writes April Goodwin in Wednesday’s Daily. I must say, good riddance. I hope never again to read such preachy, self-righteous crap in any periodical. And boy, did April go out with a bang!

“The Bottom Line: We’re All Human” was by far the worst editorial in a long string of bad editorials from this author. She begins with an attempt to explain the actions of extreme members of society by making “blanket assumptions” and conjuring “crude theories.” She preaches that to make these assumptions and create these unjust definitions of people only shows our ignorance.

Apparently she is the ONE person who has a sound enough mind to make these “blanket assumptions.”

After condemning those who postulate why people are the way they are or why they live as they do she then tries to explain why we don’t understand anything. Because according to April, we’re all “completely selfish, ignorant, self-righteous, obsessed with success and arrogant.”

April, you just made one HUGE assumption! So I can’t assume that the homeless are lazy because that makes me a bad person? But it’s okay for YOU to assume that Americans don’t understand anything because they’re selfish, ignorant and dishonest? You’ve just proven you’re no better.

I will not miss reading her column when she’s gone. I hope she realizes she doesn’t have a “unique” perspective just because she writes for a newspaper.

Jayson Wittrup

Junior

Electrical engineering