Student Services Manual (SSM)

Effective: 8/1/1976

Revised: 7/1/2022

SSM 1401–01: Letters to the State Press Editor

Purpose

To provide readers of the State Press with an opportunity to comment on issues and events relevant to the ASU community

Source

Student Media

Policy

The State Press welcomes and encourages written responses from readers. Letters from readers may be submitted in print, by e-mail, or through social media and should be legible and brief (no more than 400 words). Letters that attack or criticize non-public individuals, or violate community standards of taste or decency may not be accepted. All letters, print or electronic, must include enough information to verify the writer’s identity. Letters from non-students should include the author’s full name, affiliation, if any, with the university, and contact information. Letters appearing in any State Press print product or website must include the author’s name. All letters are subject to editing. Editors will verify the authenticity of all submissions prior to publication.

Procedures

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Print Letters to the Editor

The writer must deliver a typed, double-spaced letter (including enough information to allow editors to verify the writer’s identity) on the Tempe campus, to the Memorial Union 3rd Floor Student Media, information desk, or on the Downtown Phoenix campus, to the Cronkite School, Student Media, Suite 404.

State Press staff determines if the letter is accepted, the authenticity of the letter along with the writer’s identity, then edits the letter as necessary and publishes it.

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Electronic Letters to the Editor

The writer must submit an electronic letter (including enough information to allow editors to verify the writer’s identity) by sending it via e-mail to the State Press editor-in-chief, the State Press opinion editor, or the State Press “letters-to-the-editor” e-mail address, (which appears on the "contact us" page of the State Press website), or by posting a letter, or link to a letter, on the State Press Facebook page.

NOTE:

Letters or other messages posted by readers to State Press social-media sites are subject to removal if deemed inappropriate by State Press editors. Messages posted on State Press social-media sites are also subject to re-publishing as letters to the editor, or as reader commentary or feedback.

State Press staff determines if the letter is accepted, the authenticity of the letter along with the writer’s identity, then edits the letter as necessary and publishes it.

Cross-Reference

See also SSM 1401–02, “Advertising.”

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