To the editor,
As a proud alumnus of Allegheny College, a former student-athlete, and an occasional contributor to the Campus Sports section, I was disappointed to read that there will be no Sports section in the Campus newspaper for the ’24-’25 academic year. (Letter from the Editors: The Campus’ mission, August 30, 2014.) The reasons given were a smaller staff and the May 2024 graduation of several skilled seniors, including Sports editor Kyle Chandler. I have met Kyle Chandler, and I agree that he was a dedicated and skilled sportswriter and an outstanding play-by-play broadcaster. I assume that the decision to reduce the number of pages from 8 pages to 6 pages is due in large part to the demise of the Sports section.
I find the stated reasons for the discontinuance of the Sports section to be short-sighted and ill advised. College sports are valuable for several reasons: (1) Student-athletes who expend hours to hone their skills and represent the Gators deserve recognition; (2) Athletic events bring the campus community together; and (3) Prospective students who desire to play a sport at Allegheny will be dismayed to find that the Campus newspaper gives no coverage to these student-athletes. The Campus newspaper has always served this function.
Rather than discontinue the Sports section, I suggest that the Campus staff and professors in the Communication and Journalism departments recruit students who aspire to be sports writers. Simply quitting in the face of a temporary shortage is not the Allegheny way! Get the Sports section back into the Campus and expand each issue to 8 pages.

Go Gators!

Paul R. Pudloski (‘72)
San Diego