I’m curious, though. I’m not a big follower–or theorizer–of student media, and so I have a question for those of you here: How can we conceptualize Kustra’s use of an undergraduate opinion piece here? It seems to me like he’s choosing an “easy target” to criticize and ultimately justify his position (to not play at Idaho again). But looking at the student’s piece in this way–as somehow less than a “professional piece”–unfairly gives the work a kind of precious quality (like the poems of school children, say) that ultimately serves to reinscribe the idea that student writing should not be taken seriously.

Thoughts?