Students Put On Conference

Regarding your account of President Blenda Wilson’s first public appearance (“CSUN Leader Hopes to Tap New Funds,” Times Valley Edition, Sept. 11), please note that this entire event was conceived, organized and controlled by the student chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ).

President Wilson was our guest. She had nothing to do with the ground rules for questioning, as reported by Sam Enriquez, who said: “Professional media were not allowed to ask questions under the rules she (Wilson) established for the news conference.”

After several rounds of generally tough questions from three journalism students, Dr. Wilson fielded questions from audience members selected at random by the student moderator. You wouldn’t know it from Enriquez’s story, but this event with its “show-biz flair” was put on by students and was not something planned by the administration.

DAVID DE WITT, President, Society of Professional Journalists Chapter, Cal State Northridge