HTP Mailbag

Dear Editors of HTP:

This is my last semester here. So please let me get this off of my chest. Something that the writer’s club, newspaper or yearbook wouldn’t accept on the grounds that it was a little too controversial. I need to rant and roar a bit. This wasn’t written ‘cause I was mad at someone, or because I just wanted to be spiteful or condescending. It’s just a little message to the little kids who inhabit this school. You know the one’s: those whine little kids who you shove out of the way on your way to class. I just want to leave a few messages. The first is to: JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU WHINE BASTARDS AND DO SOMETHING FOR A CHANGE!

Honestly, if you think you’ve got it so bad then put the gun to your head. It’s called survival of the fittest. If you can’t handle it stop corrupting the gene pool. How many of you middle class scum actually have it so bad that you’ll consider putting a bullet in your brain because mommy and daddy don’t like your nose ring? Or have you thought that self-mutilation is a really cool thing ‘cause the Oz man did it? Or how about pulling a Menendez on your parents ass? Or running away? Unless you’ve got some severe chemical imbalance it’s just not worth it.

You are reading a paper that is put out by members of the SAC exec. You know it, I know it. You probably whisper, ‘bloody hypocrites.’ But when was the last time you were ever at an SAC meeting? Maybe they are trying to change the school. Ever thing of that or are you just too jaded and cynical? Sorry, you think that because you are sarcastic sometimes that you are jaded and cynical (WRONG AGAIN!)

And that anonymous drone last issue who wrote about how non-conformity is the best way to conform, congratulations. A classic example. How many of you middle class kids recently ‘shocked’ your parents with an eyebrow ring. The very same eyebrow ring that about fourteen other people have in this school alone.

Deal with it. Life occasionally sucks the perverbial cock. So do something. Don’t sit back and bitch and be a hypocrite. Ask yourself: Why doesn’t anyone do anything? Then ask yourself: What have I done for anyone lately?

- Anonymous

Alumni Pride

Just wanted to tell you that you are not alone in the battle against the uh..."authorities" for lack of a better word.

It's scary having to choose courses for second year and knowing that it will cost me $823.06 for each course that I take. Not including books, not including transportation and paper and pens and computer paper and ink cartridges and film and splicing tape (I'm in film, how'd you guess?) and reels and actors and photocopies and faxes and fancy calculators that make fancy lines and library fines and parking passes and stamps and a new bag 'cause high school size bag < Yooniversity bad and thesauruses and other school related things and hey...maybe, just maybe, there's leftover money to eat and even possibly maybe share it with that special someone.

I applaud your work HTP...keep those papers circulating. I should have written stuff for the paper when I had the chance, but alas, I hate politics.

- delerium

More Libel

About that Joe Dowser article, you probably should know that he seems to have confused a couple of his facts. I was attending Woodlands at the time, and I don't seem to remember any walkout or petition on his behalf. While it is possible that I forgot, or just missed that day/week, I'm pretty sure I would have heard something. To be quite honest, I don't think people cared enough about either Joe or the student council to walk out. What I remember people getting more annoyed about was the fact that the school temporarily froze the student council accounts, and refused to issue refunds to people for the cancelled semi-formal. Of course, at the time they (both the student council and the administration) didn't actually tell us what it was about.

What he says about Karen not being eligible, however, may be almost correct. What I remember hearing was that the school had lowered the minimum academic requirement for the president by 5% so as to keep Karen in office.

Just so you know, it is possible that Mr. Hedges would do such a thing. Once again, that happy little gossip line that runs through Woodlands reported that the money was found in Hedges desk. This does seem unlikely. Keep in mind though, Hedges is not exactly the most moral individual. He seemed to see nothing wrong with asking all the girls in his class to leave the room so that he could tell a sexist joke.

-Ryan Jones

creepy.com

This e-mail must reach Don. The recipient. I have heard by word of mouth that the issue of HTP is out but was confiscated by the higher powers. I need a copy of it and the one who was to deliver it has failed me. There must be alternate means for me to get a copy. One suggestion is me getting an affiliate to pick up a copy in a locker, or a washroom behind one of the toilets. Your call. But I must get a copy. Respond promptly.

-Rale (the hacker)

Trouble with the Man

Unfortunately, I'm not as familiar as I would like to be with Canadian law to provide you with an answer. I know that in the United States that if a principal refused to return copies of the newspaper given the situation you have described he would not only be guilty of a constitutional violation but also probably of a criminal theft violation. The newspapers belong to you. And justlike if we were talking about a watch or a bicycle -- if s/he takes your property without your permission and without any other sort of right to do so, s/he's committed theft.

- Mike Hiestand, Staff Attorney, Student Press Law Center