Missing person

I would like to thank you for your tasteful and sincere article on the disappearance of Will Bergeson. After the articles that have been written by the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, your article was appreciated.

I have known Will through my church for mainly years and the articles previously written about the current situation made my stomach turn and my heart ache for not only his family and friends but for anyone who has been subject to their judgmental reporting.

They have recently printed an "apology" for the very hurtful things they wrote, but the damage has already been done and it came across as more of a rebuttal in defense of their defamation of will's character.

So thank you Sun Star for reporting the truth and not a false judgment disguised as an explanation.

Again, thank you,

Rachel Bachert

UAF Senior

Biology

Editor's Note: The News-Miner ran an opinion piece Nov. 19 saying it would review its public safety reporting policies following two articles. One, about Bergeson, "attempted to roll in a seasonal public safety issue" that was "interpreted as judgemental [sic] about his character and his fate. It wasn't intended to be."

"The subject was top-of-mind for searchers that day and it was a public warning worth repeating -- but the context for its delivery was not well received," news editor Kelly Bostian wrote.

Great play

As someone who first attended both UA and its drama productions in 1967, I feel very confident in saying that the recent "Three Days of Rain" was one of the best evenings of theater I have ever experienced anywhere. I particularly appreciated new UAF professor Carrie Baker's intelligent direction, which trusted both the brilliant text and her three talented actors. It's also worth noting that these actors -- J.K. Bowne, Jenny Schlotfeldt, and Levi Ben-Israel -- are all local, in fact Lathrop grads, and each did an outstanding job with two parts; in particular, Levi's first act monologue was nothing short of stunning in both its timing and delivery.

For theater-goers, the current calendar is most fortunately crowded, since the UAF play ran the same weekends as the wonderful "Sound of Music," definitely one of Fairbanks Light Opera Theatre's best productions in many years, performed and presented by at least a hundred Fairbanks children and adults, and the held-over, delightful FDA production of "Arsenic and Old Lace."

Clearly, these shows demonstrate that the frozen North is a hotbed of dramatic talent. Thanks to all involved in each production for so resoundingly brightening the dark days of sub-Arctic November.

Susan Stitham