Like so many other students, faculty and alumni who read Matt Sullivan's comments regarding Luol Deng following the Duke-UVA game, I was shocked. As a professional editor, my first thought was not, Who wrote this? but rather, Who edited this? Regardless, Sullivan and his editors have endured enough flogging for their carelessness and poor judgment.
As a community, we have allowed this incident to be blown way out of proportion. I am willing to bet that if a sports writer had referred to a nerdy white basketball player as having had Inspector Gadget arms we would not have seen one letter to the editor. Let's all just take a deep breath, let Sullivan write his stories, get off the backs of the editors and move on with the season.
Nancy Kennedy
Trinity '00
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