Well, today I had one of my fears from earlier this month confirmed. It appears that a certain academic institution is contemplating (or has possibly already decided upon) a course of action that I feel goes against the entire spirit of its founding, not to mention one of our most basic rights as American citizens. I, typical evil minded person that I am, have already contrived a sort of protest. Please stay tuned for more information regarding this subject...as soon as I am allowed to say more, I fully intend to.
Note: the following contains a rather angery rant. Continue at your own risk.
I ask you, how far should a private institution's rights extend to strip us of ours? They require us to wear clothes they like, represent them properly (oh, did you know that employees can be fired for making comments on or off school time that can be taken to protray the school in a negative light? Apparently, we can be punished aswell...) and generally attempting to brainwash us for 7 hours a day. As if this isn't enough, they expect us to sit back and take whatever shit they wanna throw our way. Now, though we all signed away our souls back in November, I feel there is still a line that cannot be crossed. Attempting to limit the pursuit of academic knowledge is crossing this line. What's next, I ask you noble administraters of educational wisdom? Will Shakespeare be banned for portraying violence and a deviant lifestyle in youngsters pursuing romance or in a noble lady prematurely ending a pregnancy? Will we be prohibited from learning about methods of birth control because you omnipotent judges feel it goes against some Divine Law? I do not ask that you condone all lifestyles or personal choices but to prohibit us, the students, from getting an intelligent look at such matters is pure hypocrocy! Where is your commitment to justice and openness to growth? How can you dare claim to teach us tolerance of others when you yourselves seem so bigoted?
Yes...yes, I am taking this perhaps too far. And at this time, I still lack all the relevant facts of the matter. For this reason, I am refraining from actions against said administrators. Furthermore, the likelyhood of any action having a postive effect on the situation at this time is practically nothing. Once I have cooled down and have the full story (and permission to share it), I will be more than happy to share it with all of you. Until then, forgive me for being vague (or trying to, anyways) and please don't do anything I won't do.
Posted by Viper37 at January 26, 2004 07:45 PM