Jess- The invective poured out at the "Crow's Nest" principals speaks to a real righteous indignation at an act that was, intentionally or not,deeply personally and professionally insulting. The thought of a student paper disbursing University funds to pay a commercial syndicated cartoonist while receiving competent student submitted work in a similar medium ought to be enough to get an investigation rolling. The issue of a lack of oversight also speaks to a poorly administrated system that badly needs the sort of muckraking that seems to have died out of the American journalistic tradition.

Shadi- An organizing presence is essential to any web community. Your efforts in making the class's technology base accessible to the nubletz are greatly appreciated. The task ahead of you will require a great deal of patience but could eventually end up as a standard document used in all the wiki-based classes done from here on out.