manji, irshad – how do you do?
yaser and i visited the varsity office, accompanied by sanjeyan
there we pitched our idea to the editor of the varsity to interview irshad manji and write a review of her new book (the trouble with islam da da da)
the editor was very receptive to the idea (he didn’t even ask us for our writing credentials)
so we went over the hart house, where manji was writer-in-residence until recently, to try and obtain some contact information
let me say it feels really cool to say, “i’m with the varsity” and so on so forth
at any rate, we got a very obvious e-mail address from hart house, one that would take around … eight seconds to guess
manji slighted all the student media at the UofT, none of them were invited to her book-launch — even though she made use of UofT’s resources as writer-in-residence at hart house
i don’t like that
anyway, i sent off an e-mail to her requesting a copy of the book for review and requesting an interview for the varsity
let’s see how it goes