The Iowa State Daily’s “Just Sayin” section was the one section of the newspaper that everybody made sure to read everyday. Sure, some people also checked out sports, or the opinion section, but “Just Sayin” and the police blotter were the two common denominators that virtually everyone who read the Daily made sure to find.
It was a place that we could confess our secret admiration for a classmate, complain about our roommates,
However, after a comment in the “Just Sayin” section of the February 21st, 2012 edition mentioning “squinties” on campus (a nickname for ground squirrels in some parts of the Midwest), some Asian members of the Iowa State student base saw it as an offensive, racist remark.