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by Ian Lorenz

So another year has
come and gone and the
world is still filled with
injustice and corruption.
In fact, the past week has
been so.incredibly unfair
and shitty, I am not really
sure what to write about.
I thought perhaps I would
tell you about the pure
hell of registration, but
then I am sure most of
you know about that. I
could tell you that, as an
English major, it is
extremely difficult to get a
degree when the

university offers the same —

courses over and over
again. How can I fill up
my requirements when
they don’t even offer new
courses. But if you are an
English major, you
already know; and if you
are not an English major,
why would you care? I
almost wrote about love
because my girlfriend has
been after me for some
time to write a column
about it. But since during

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the holidays, I caught her
fucking one of my friends
(not to mention the abuse
and sharp objects she
hurled my way), my heart
just isn’t in it. So what to
write about?

I have often felt that
organized education (i.e.
school) destroys and
discourages creativity. So
many rules and stupid
procedures all designed to
promote the status quo. In
high school I spent more of
my time defending myself
in the office than I did in
class. But it has come to my
attention recently that the
oppression of creativity
continues even at UNBC.
Let’s take one small, but
good, example of this for a
look.

So during the eat weeks
of December, Residence
sponsors a contest among
the students for decorating
dorm windows. The two
main categories are most
blatant power consumption

(i.e. lights) and most
politically incorrect. I
was shocked to learn
that UNBC, Canada’s
most politically correct
university, would
sponsor such a contest.
Even more surprising
was that President Jago
would be judge. Could a
President of UNBC
really be unbiased
enough to judge a
contest about political
incorrectness?
Apparently not.

In a burst of creative
spirit, the boys of S305
Res II put together a
tasteless, but politically
incorrect, mural of
Santa sodomizing a
reindeer. Needless to
say that all who saw it
though it was a best bet
for most politically
incorrect. All that is
except Jago. The
president, in a spineless
move, disqualified the
mural from the contest

because it was TOO
politically incorrect.
What a load of bull.

The President’s choice
to disqualify an obvious
winner was in direct
opposition to the spirit of
the contest. What is
worse, it taught many of
the students a valuable
lesson. The lesson was
that UNBC is so insecure
that the President would

_ bring his personal biases

to judge a contest and -
that students who use
innovative and creative
thoughts (that challenge
commonly held beliefs)
would be excluded from
participating in
University events. Thank
you for making this clear,
President Jago.

So, who won for most
politically incorrect? A
snow man. Yes, that is
right: a snow man
because it was not a snow
person. Why not just give

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the prize for most blatant
power consumption to a
candle in the window?
Said one disgruntled
student of Jago’s choice
for most politically
incorrect: “How can he
tell it’s a snow man when
it doesn’t have a dick?”

My point is that if the
university has enough
courage to sponsor a
contest for the most
politically incorrect
window, it should also
have enough courage to
judge the contest fairly
and without bias. To
disqualify an entry that is
not only creative but
exactly in keeping with
the spirit of the contest is
unfair and inconsistent. If
President Jago intends to
run the university with
the same bias and anti-
creative spirit with which
he judged the contest, let
his reign be short indeed.
Vive la creativity and
original thought.

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