TO THE EDITOR:
I’m an employee, so I’ll admit to lacking context regarding the grading policy that inspired Matt Leming’s cartoon published in the Nov. 29 edition.
However, unless the intention was to satirize the C-minus potential of misanthropic and misogynist humor, from a non-student’s perspective, it really missed the mark.
Insulting the UNC faculty and their partners is painfully offensive in both its sexual and body image politics.
It was crude by even middle school standards.
Obviously it can be hard to be funny on a schedule and even the best cartoonist fumbles a few.
Still, a little editorial oversight would have gone a long way toward keeping such an embarrassing piece of juvenilia off the back pages.
The DTH is the public face of UNC, and that includes faculty and staff as well as students. Publicly and privately, I think we’re better than that cartoon.
John Bowker
Office of Information Sciences
UNC School of Medicine
