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Article: EDITORIAL: Daily Athenaeum editors apologize for ad
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- January 24, 2006
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Staff Editorial
University Wire
01-24-2006
(The Daily Athenaeum) (U-WIRE) MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- Last Friday, Sarah Welsh, a West Virginia University junior, wrote to The Daily Athenaeum, "I cannot honestly say that I have held the highest expectations for your publication, but today I was extremely shocked and offended: I recently discovered a degrading and utterly insulting addition to your newspaper, advertising the breast implant giveaway at Elements nightclub."
Those words are hard to swallow, but swallow them we must because we failed our readers. The advertisement was one of the most degrading and offensive we have seen. We are sorry that it ran in our publication.
Why did we let it ...