A number of local Shepherdstown bands will no longer be written about in the Picket, Shepherd University's own campus newspaper. The soul reason for this denial of print coverage? The affiliation with a local record label, who the editor-in-chief feels has recieved enough attention. For those bands who have never graced the pages of our campus newspaper, or never even so much have been mentioned in it's pages, this is a huge disappointment. After seeking promotion and local attention through this record label, we are denied that very thing by the campus press.

Whether you read the Picket or not, or could care in the slightest about what is printed and what isn't, this hurts local bands, and if you support them, then you should support this, as well.

This is a big, uninformed, and thoughtless policy made on the part of the Picket's staff, and we feel it should be changed. If you care for local music and want many of the great bands from Shepherdstown to be given the attention they deserve by their own campus newspaper, please join this group sign the petition below.