Nick Pittman @ Times of Acadiana asking to publish my response Anyone else fire an e-mail to Mr. Pittman and get this response, or was it just me? (See "Thank Goodness for UNO, USL and Toolame" post) sos's latest response to Mr. Pittman and e-mail thread: I don't understand what difference it makes - why not use "Anonymous"? I've noticed that name in major papers all over the United States. I could give you a pay phone number or multitude of numbers and simply answer the phone with any name, and you would apparently consider that confirmation. It sounds as though you are looking to select a few people to use as targets for the readers which agreed with you. I do not have an ego that desires attention; you contacted me and asked if you could use my comments, remember? You have my correspondence and e-mail address to use should you choose >From: "Pittman, Nick" <[email protected]> >To: "private nconfidential" <[email protected]> >Subject: RE: Thank goodness for UNO, USL and Toolame >Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 13:30:31 -0600 > >Ok, here the deal is: people send in letters sometimes. They slap on a false name. She, my editor, calls the number and asks for the name. If its a false name, 99 percent of the time, they give themselves away. Sure you can call her, but what is stopping you from giving a false name. do you want to be included or not? > >Nick Pittman >Staff Writer, The Times of Acadiana > > > ---------- > > From: private nconfidential > > Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 1:24 PM > > To: Pittman, Nick > > Subject: RE: Thank goodness for UNO, USL and Toolame > > > > If this is not really me, then who is it then? I will be more than happy to > > call and speak to your editor. What is his number? > > > > > > >From: "Pittman, Nick" <[email protected]> > > >To: "private nconfidential" <[email protected]> > > >Subject: RE: Thank goodness for UNO, USL and Toolame > > >Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 13:15:20 -0600 > > > > > >well, we have no use for a hard copy. we need your # simple so my editor > > >can call and say is this really you. your name and town will be made > > >public, but not the # > > > > > >Nick Pittman > > >Staff Writer, The Times of Acadiana > > > > > > > ---------- > > > > From: private nconfidential > > > > Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 1:01 PM > > > > To: Pittman, Nick > > > > Subject: RE: Thank goodness for UNO, USL and Toolame > > > > > > > > Mr. Pittman, > > > > > > > > You are free to use my full letter to you in your paper, but not a > > >chosen > > > > excerpt. My name and number are unpublished in the phone book of the > > > > Louisiana town where I live. However, if you give me your personal > > >address > > > > and phone number, I will send you a hardcopy letter. > > > > > > > > > > > > >From: "Pittman, Nick" <[email protected]> > > > > >To: "private nconfidential" <[email protected]> > > > > >Subject: RE: Thank goodness for UNO, USL and Toolame Date: Fri, 16 Jan > > > > >2004 10:48:11 -0600 > > > > > > > > > >we're trying to put together a response to my column feature, with five > > > > >letters from each view point. would you like your letter featured? we > > >will > > > > >need your name and # (for verification purposes only) and where you > > >live. > > > > >thanks, > > > > > > > > > >Nick Pittman > > > > >Staff Writer, The Times of Acadiana > > > > > > > > > > > ---------- > > > > > > From: private nconfidential > > > > > > Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 2:21 PM > > > > > > To: [email protected] > > > > > > Subject: Thank goodness for UNO, USL and Toolame > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I am very happy to say that UNO, USL and Toolame are all still > > >around. > > > > >The > > > > > > reason I mention this is because for LSU to be recognized as the > > > > >greatest > > > > > > college football program in the country, there must be schools out > > >there > > > > >for > > > > > > it to tower over. Granted, UNO does not have a football program, and > > > > >many of > > > > > > you might argue (uncontested) that the same could be said for the > > >other > > > > > > schools. However if LSU was the only program in the State, we would > > >be > > > > > > saddled with all of the the bush league fans and writers like > > >yourself: > > > > >the > > > > > > other schools give these clowns a place to claim home. Let's keep > > >from > > > > > > condemning those that attend these schools or the schools themselves > > >- > > > > >many > > > > > > are great people who do not suffer from such myopia. > > > > > > > > > > > > However, now is the time to recognize EXACTLY WHY it is important to > > > > >have > > > > > > one, central flagship State University and rally around it. It is > > >time > > > > >for > > > > > > LOUISIANA to say to the Nation - look at US! and be proud. > > > > > > > > > > > > True, the other LA State schools do suck money away from LSU, but > > >that > > > > >is > > > > > > our state motto - the mother pelican taking from her own flesh so > > >that > > > > >her > > > > > > underlings may grow, so although it hurts a little bit, we are all > > > > >better > > > > > > off.> > > > > > > > > > > > > I will continue to pull for the other state schools when they are > > >not > > > > > > playing LSU despite the few morons that these universities appear to > > > > >have > > > > > > attracted, because I love Louisiana. Even though I am from New > > >Orleans, > > > > >I > > > > > > will not pull for Toolame, because they are not a State school and > > >the > > > > >far > > > > > > majority of their students are from outside of N.O. (Penn, and NY so > > > > >says > > > > > > the enrollment records). Each of these institutions do contribute > > >jobs > > > > >and > > > > > > education to many young people in this State, so I recognize the > > > > >necessity. > > > > > > I will also continue to buy Louisiana products FIRST and support > > > > >Lousiana > > > > > > jobs where I can. > > > > > > > > > > > > What I don't understand is how Louisiana residents, whose taxes > > >support > > > > >the > > > > > > State institutions, are not proud of the accomplishments of all > > >State > > > > > > institutions.
From : Pittman, Nick <[email protected]> Sent : Friday, January 16, 2004 2:07 PM To : "private nconfidential" Subject : RE: Thank goodness for UNO, USL and Toolame here's the deal: you don't agree with me, but I want your comments anyway. I want to show both sides of this argument. I have passed on a few supporting emails because they didn't want their names run. what are you afraid of, "anonymous?" the number deal is not my rule, it is this paper's rule. as long as we have used it, we have never encountered such silly resistance. Nick Pittman Staff Writer, The Times of Acadiana
Latest & greatest: My Faith tells me not to be afraid of anything. I am on assignment here in TX. No one is home to answer the phone in Louisiana, so giving you my home number wouldn't do you much good now, would it? Apparently you want to bring interest to your column by stirring the pot between LSU fans and USL fans, and I'll be no part of that. You clearly missed the entire intent of what I wrote to you, which is not surprising considering you penned what you did in the article, which I am now convinced you wrote for the sole purpose to stir the pot and of course sell papers. >From: "Pittman, Nick" <[email protected]> >To: "private nconfidential" <[email protected]> >Subject: RE: Thank goodness for UNO, USL and Toolame >Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 14:07:24 -0600 > >here's the deal: you don't agree with me, but I want your comments anyway. I want to show both sides of this argument. I have passed on a few supporting emails because they didn't want their names run. what are you afraid of, "anonymous?" > >the number deal is not my rule, it is this paper's rule. as long as we have used it, we have never encountered such silly resistance. > > >Nick Pittman >Staff Writer, The Times of Acadiana
#1 You are trying to make a name for yourself, and #2, are you trying to tell me advertisers do not pay to advertise in your paper? Please, inform me! >From: "Pittman, Nick" <[email protected]> >To: "private nconfidential" <[email protected]> >Subject: RE: Thank goodness for UNO, USL and Toolame >Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 15:30:27 -0600 > >you caught me! after all we must sell our free paper! thanks anyway! > >Nick Pittman >Staff Writer, The Times of Acadiana
He apparently has been in a bad mood - did you see his article? - RexB I believe first posted about it in the forum... 337 or 225? Is it just me or did Lafayette catch a case of Red Stick envy? Nick Pittman / Staff Writer Posted on January 14, 2004 C L O S I N G A T 7 O N S U N D A Y ! the top lines of the sign had been arranged to read. When the grocery store employee stepped back to survey his handy work, the bottom line came out of hiding: G O L S U ! For a moment, I wasn't sure where I was. Had I taken a wrong turn and wound up in Baton Rouge? Or was Lafayette suddenly annexed as a meaty subdivision of our capital city? Surely, this couldn't be in Lafayette. Why would this be in Lafayette? Isn't Lafayette - hear me out - not a part of Baton Rouge? Do we not have a college of our own? Truly there can't be that many Louisiana State University graduates working as bag boys at my neighborhood grocer to warrant them shutting down early. Then an even funnier thing happened. That night, after a quarterback who appeared unfit to play Pop Warner lost by a mere seven points, a herd of fans trampled into Academy Sporting Goods, buying up all their LSU National Championship gear ... at 11 o'clock at night ... on a Sunday ... in Lafayette. The purple and gold flu, however, was not quarantined to the Hub City. My own mother, over in Kentwood, suffering from the sniffles, stayed up late that night to root for a school neither of her sons or herself attended. I know of people here and yonder with no ties to the campus in Baton Rouge who threw parties egging the Tigers on to victory. The next morning on the way to work, cars passed flying the purple and gold as if they were our national colors and we had just won a war ... on the Fourth of July. Stickers. License frames. Antenna toppers. Raising Cane's beamed National Champs Priceless from their sign. Granted, they are a Baton Rouge-based business, but doesn't their lobby bleed vermilion? Not to be left out, other Lafayette business followed suit. At work it was arguably worse. In the days leading up to the big game, we ran a cover story about the Sugar Bowl. The Daily Advertiser reported on it daily and offered special sections and front-page treatments. A book is forthcoming. Somehow, geography bent like a stick in water to the laws of popularity and pack mentality, and Baton Rouge became part of the eight parishes we serve. Now, it's one thing to have a touch of pride. For all those LSU alumni, I see where you are coming from - that's your team and no matter where the job takes you, you will support them. However, for the rest of you, and there can't be that many LSU grads in this town, to borrow a line from the Cajun Bar, if you can't support the Cajuns, move to Baton Rouge. But this whole fever didn't start at kickoff in the Superdome or even the week before. People from all over this state are always hell-bent on supporting LSU. College grads and college-town residents leave their teams in the dust for Death Valley on Saturday after Saturday in the fall. And apparently, the fervor is not for all winning teams as, last year, McNeese came a game away from taking their championship and it received scarce play outside of Lake Charles. In other words, LSU has some kind of strange hold on this state. No matter where you go in Louisiana, no matter the educational degree or where they earned their degree, people love LSU. If you think about it, the more support LSU gets, the better program they will develop. Even with LSU ticket prices soaring higher that Cipro bottles after an anthrax outbreak, Death Valley still fills to its skyscraping heights. Plus it doesn't hurt a player when he looks into the stands and sees a moving mass of purple chanting the letters of his team. Now, after a national championship and a nationally televised game, requests for admissions applications have spiked at LSU. I guess it all comes down to this: I know there won't be a rash of babies named Bustle born next year and that the University of Louisiana at Lafayette isn't exactly packing them in with their winning ways. I also know everybody loves a winner, even if they have nothing to do with them and came on board in the fourth quarter. But, if Lafayette supported the vermilion half as much as they praised the purple the first weekend of 2004, you wouldn't have to travel to Death Valley to see a winning team. Nick Pittman is staff writer for The Times. Phone him at 289-6300, ext. 610, or e-mail him at [email protected].
And that, from the fan of a team who, after beating 25th ranked Texas A&M in 1997, tore down the goalpost and built a monument to the victory which still stands in front of Cajun Field. That win remains USL's only victory over a ranked team. And, as it turned out, that #25 ranking for the Aggies (it was the 1st game of the season) was highly inflated. They never sniffed the top 25 the rest of the year. The Lafayette paper still refers to it as (ULL's) "historic win over then #25 Texas A&M".
