I recall very fondly my student days and the many Monday, Monday humor columns that I read during that time. If I’m not mistaken, that is when they got their start with the semi-anonymous BCG. I could hardly start a week without reading his irreverant sense of humor and strikingly perceptive and hilarious observations of student life that always seemed to strike a chord with the student body.
Based on my review of the Feb. 7 Monday, Monday, the approach to this column has changed a great deal. Instead of finding a humor column, I found a mean-spirited and largely humorless column that I would more have expected to find in The Daily Tar Heel rather than in The Chronicle. If it was an attempt to be funny—rather than a pretext for gratuitous barbs—it woefully missed the mark.
It took cheap shots at a walk-on who ought to be proud of his commitment to the program, it ridiculed the success of one of the top coaches of all-time by suggesting he was insincere, indecent, overrated, improperly motivated and no better at coaching than a monkey, and it trashed several current and former players and their accomplishments.
I’m still looking for the humor in the article, but I’ve found the disappointment.
Erik Albright
Trinity ’87
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