I was deeply disappointed in the coverage of Homecoming Weekend that appeared in the Nov. 9 edition of the Old Gold and Black. The headline of the article, "Homecoming offered myriad of activities," was certainly appropriate, but the article focused mostly on the activities that were sponsored by the Student Union. What really confused me was the picture of Racial Harmony that appeared with the article, particularly since it had nothing to do with the article. Some information in the caption was incorrect and showed carelessness in obtaining the correct information about the picture.
I'd like to now give a brief synopsis of events that were sponsored by the Office of Multicultural Affairs and the Black Student Alliance, since it was missing from the "myriad" of Homecoming activities.
On Friday, Nov. 3, a panel discussion called "Life After Wake Forest" was held featuring area alumni. BSA and Asian Student Association then sponsored a jazz mixer at the NIA House for students and alumni. On Saturday, Nov. 4, a pre-game tailgate was held.
After the football game was the Homecoming Show, which featured Alpha Phi Alpha step teams as well as vocal groups Racial Harmony and NiShati.
Comedian Michael Colyar then performed for the audience. He has appeared on HBO's Def Comedy Jam, his own comedy special and Star Search. Following this show was the Homecoming Jam which was sponsored by Alpha Phi Alpha in the gym.
I think I was most disappointed in the coverage of the Homecoming King and Queen.
Last year, I almost missed the picture of the queen because it was buried in some obscure spot in the paper.
This year, there was no picture, just one sentence in the article about the fact that they had been crowned, in which the classification of Jamey Spencer, the king, was incorrect. He is a junior, not a senior.
While the reason for the decrease in coverage of the Homecoming king and queen is quite another letter to the OG&B (and quite a lot of people know what I'm talking about), I feel that Spencer and Ingrid Hoover, the queen, deserve a little more acknowledgement than what they got.
Now I know jumping on the Homecoming issue may be a little nit-picky relative to other issues that affect us as students (to some extent it is to me!), but what I hope this letter does is bring to light the fact that what some segments of the university community saw as an important social event was treated poorly by the OG&B.
The reality is that the carelessness that was shown in he coverage of Homecoming seems to be commonplace, because I've noticed this kind of misinformation and lack of information just about every time I've opened this newspaper.
Ronda M. Bryant