This is a site for Scholastic columns, not for Scholastic blogs.
The proprietor of this column is not a fan of blogs. He made that abundantly clear when his editor-in-chief asked him in an email what he thought of blogs and he replied, "I hate blogs". He later heartily applauded journalists Buzz Bissinger and Murray Chass when they denounced bloggers as the scum of the earth in recent months.
Bloggers, however, are welcome to visit this site; so are Notre Dame football freaks, those students who have nothing better to do while neglecting their studies, and alumni who have no idea what students on Notre Dame's campus actually think about nowadays. How else will they know what is being said about them by a columnist they have probably never heard of?
Otherwise, this site will most likely appeal to traditional people whose good old interest in the Notre Dame perspective is largely ignored in this day of young bloggers who know it all and new-fangled insights which are drowning the campus in smarminess and making people forget that 60 year-old alumni, and not some young whippersnapper student, know what Notre Dame is really supposed mean.
Marques Camp, who is a writer for this site, will do some column writing but other Scholastic staff will join him too, the others being staff who are actually on campus at this moment, unlike Marques, who will be writing from overseas. If you have a favorite Scholastic writer whose work you'd like to be able to read again, please send a note and they might be invited to write. This stuff isn't up to Marques Camp.
In addition to comments, emails are invited, but visitors to the site are asked to omit the obscenities.
"I have spent my college years in the print world, where obscenities don't see the light of day," Camp said. " They will remain in the dark here as well. It will be a good test for bloggers and Notre Dame fans to see if they can control themselves."
In addition, Camp noted that some of his friends might visit the site, and they hear enough profanity at Notre Dame Stadium without needing to read it here.
The proprietor of this column is not a fan of blogs. He made that abundantly clear when his editor-in-chief asked him in an email what he thought of blogs and he replied, "I hate blogs". He later heartily applauded journalists Buzz Bissinger and Murray Chass when they denounced bloggers as the scum of the earth in recent months.
Bloggers, however, are welcome to visit this site; so are Notre Dame football freaks, those students who have nothing better to do while neglecting their studies, and alumni who have no idea what students on Notre Dame's campus actually think about nowadays. How else will they know what is being said about them by a columnist they have probably never heard of?
Otherwise, this site will most likely appeal to traditional people whose good old interest in the Notre Dame perspective is largely ignored in this day of young bloggers who know it all and new-fangled insights which are drowning the campus in smarminess and making people forget that 60 year-old alumni, and not some young whippersnapper student, know what Notre Dame is really supposed mean.
Marques Camp, who is a writer for this site, will do some column writing but other Scholastic staff will join him too, the others being staff who are actually on campus at this moment, unlike Marques, who will be writing from overseas. If you have a favorite Scholastic writer whose work you'd like to be able to read again, please send a note and they might be invited to write. This stuff isn't up to Marques Camp.
In addition to comments, emails are invited, but visitors to the site are asked to omit the obscenities.
"I have spent my college years in the print world, where obscenities don't see the light of day," Camp said. " They will remain in the dark here as well. It will be a good test for bloggers and Notre Dame fans to see if they can control themselves."
In addition, Camp noted that some of his friends might visit the site, and they hear enough profanity at Notre Dame Stadium without needing to read it here.
