Do you people know what day it is? Sure, you deceptively print the correct date on the top of the front page, but the rest of your paper feels like a time warp. On Wednesday, The State News printed a review of the film “Memento” (“‘Memento’ gains box office popularity,” SN 5/30). “Memento”? That movie’s been out for more than two months! Whatever happened to newspapers previewing movies so readers could find out about movies before they see them? Am I supposed to find reviews of movies I saw a month ago useful? Then I pick up what I thought was Friday’s newspaper, only to find a review of a U2 concert. When did U2 put out its first album? In 1980? More than two decades ago? Sorry if I expect something a little more edgy from college music critics, but there are probably 100 struggling musicians in the Lansing area creating edgy, current music, not charging people $130 to hear it, and you’re covering those aging guitar geezers who hit their prime before we were born! You’ll probably start printing that Fetus-X comic again next year, because it seemed to be all the rage last year. Maybe you should change your name to “The State Old.” Really, really old.

Brandon Parker
Lansing Community College Student