Dear Editor,

Coming this spring 2004, students will be able to take a journalism course entitled, Writing the Illusive Truth, taught by Nick Bahl, soon to be graduate of MSCD, provided he can pass his cut and paste class. Mr. Bahl, demanding he be called Dr. Bahl (recently presented with an honorary doctorate from Texas Southern Baptist University), will provide students with the subtleties of how to be a journalist, lie, and get away with it.

Students will be able to intern at Fox News, A Fair and Balanced Look at the News. Dr. Bahl hopes that the course will pass the liberal curriculum committee, but he already has the approval and blessing of the board of trustees and Gov. Owens, so he expects no problem in the class being offered. Dr. Bahl was able to get passing grades at Metro by slandering most of his professors into submission, a tactic he will share with the students in his new course. This course is expected to be very popular and Dr. Bahl has already invited a number of guests to assist him with the class. Those on the roster of guest speakers will be Ollie North, Ann Coulter and Bill O’Reilly, to name a few.

Given that Dr. Bahl is an expert in a variety of disciplines, he will also enlighten the class with his newly developed conservative theoretical framework for teaching Native American Politics, given that Dr. Meranto can’t teach it that way. This framework includes examining the gifts that Europeans brought to the Indians in the New World. These gifts include, but are not limited to, genocide, dispossession and colonialism for their own good, of course.

The above comments are naturally fabricated and sensationalized, just as Mr. Bahl’s comments were, as printed in the last issue of The Metropolitan. Mr. Bahl stated in his so-called letter to the editor “my motives are to seek the truth and report it.” However, the slanderous and insulting nature of his article makes me question his intellectual capabilities. Additionally, given that Mr. Bahl is listed as a reporter for The Metropolitan, it seems his “letter” was initially formatted to be an article, how else do you justify the full page “letter.” It would best serve The Metropolitan to accurately report the news rather than jumping at the opportunity to print a ridiculous sensationalized “news” story such as the one written by Nick Bahl. It might be in The Metropolitan’s best interest to consider Nick Bahl a severe liability.

Sincerely,
Raymond Foxworth

Editor’s note: Due to the personal nature of Nick Bahl’s opinion, The Metropolitan chose not to endorse it as a column but rather publish it as a letter to the editor.