Alumni myself. Amazingly enough, the editorials were even worse when I was a student there.
My roommate and I were in Army ROTC at the time (1983-1987) and wrote repeated editorial responses, but very few were ever published. I even made a point of filling out the paperwork to get my forced subscription fees back, every semester.
It always was, and always will be, a RAG.
Lefty staff even participated in the theft of these newspapers when they disagreed with a single article.