Other side not represented

I'm troubled by the IDS editors' failure to offer critics of the Horowitz ad an opportunity to comment on it in the same issue in which the ad was run. I would have liked to have seen a news story that very day quoting critics of the ad, along with a diverse array of students offering their opinions on whether or not such an ad should be run. I would also have liked to have seen editors explain why they published the ad. The explanation should have appeared the day the ad ran. \nThe decision to publish the ad was, after all, news -- big news, on this campus -- and the IDS should have covered it as news. The failure to cover this significant news story on the day that it broke -- the day the ad ran -- suggests that Horowitz bought more than a page of the IDS; he seems to have bought the whole paper.