Agenda Needs More News & Analysis

I can understand that in a cultural, artistic, student community, an "alternative" paper would want to devote a good percentage of its space to film, music, and culture, and I do appreciate some of that material, particularly Arwulf Arwulf.

I think the calendar is of value also, but I've always wished you would devote more space to news and analysis of community events, and struggles by grassroots organizations and people trying to survive and improve their lives.

Your Oct. issue has two-and-one-half columns total about the Detroit strikers and the new guidelines of the Mich. Dept. of Corrections. Nothing about the Welfare Rights Union March on Lansing in Sept.; nothing about housing issues; nothing about the new rules at the homeless shelter; nothing about the cross-burning in Washtenaw County in Sept. I don't know who your target readership is, but I've been wondering for some time if it includes me.

Now in Oct., two full pages of excerpts from the "Unabomber Manifesto!" Aren't there enough serious thinkers/writers with the creative ideas worthy of dissemination, that you have to give a forum of this killer? It's clear why the Post printed his manifesto, but AGENDA? To me it's sacrificing principle to sensationalism. You should be ashamed. (And on the same week that WAAM is presenting Gordon Liddy! Is this Ann Arbor's answer to the problem of crime-just give them a pulpit?)

With one thing and another, I think I won't resubscribe, at least for the present.

Judith Duboff

Ann Arbor