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From the Chair
A note from the Editor

_ Okay, correction. COPY
editor. Still, it doesn’t mean
my job doesn’t have it’s
benefits. I get to proof through
every | single
typographikal error, small
space problems, as well as
make little suggestions on how
things are laid out. But of
course, Paul does have final
say, so what I do doesn’t really
matter. Hah! Come to think of
it, I don’t even know if Paul’s
going to print this, ‘cuz this is
usually Paul’s department. But,
being that everybody is so
swamped with endless finals
and take home exams (and
being that I didn’t really feel
like studying), I decided to
give it a whirl. J

Well, on to the issue at hand.
Lately, I’ve been receiving
rather inflammatory comments
through Over The Edge, mostly
(correction...ALL of them)
from people who were rather
pissed off from what I wrote.
Of course, everyone’s free to
their own opinions, good or
bad. Hey, everybody who
works in this office gets
relatively nasty comments

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directed at them at one time or
another. Of course, our
overworked faithful
secretary...1 mean Office
Administrator (which has a
much nicer ring to it than
Secretary, if you ask me) gets
the brunt of it, because she’s
there most of the time (enjoy
the semester off, Kara...you’ve
earned it). Simon got a lot of
flack for the affair regarding
the Backyard Barbecue. Paul
gets a lot of negative

- comments, solely because he

runs the whole deal. Of course,
we can’t forget John
McFetrick’s forray into the
place where wise men and
women fear to tread by
mentioning the word “tits.”
However, the negative
comments directed at them
were done by people with faces
and names. All those who made
negative comments weren’t
afraid to let people know who
they were, which to me adds
strength to the person’s
arguement. Why do I get the
anonymous ones done by
faceless individuals?
Of all the negative comments

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I’ve recieved over what I’ve
written in Over The Edge, only
one of them was responded to
by people who were willing to
admit their names. I’m
referring to the now infamous
“Floor Crawl” fiasco which
appeared in the Valentines Day
issue of 1996 (Thanks, Tim and
Dave. The paper would be
nothing without people like
you. Keep it up, guys!). And
then there was the anonymous
note that was slipped under my
door. That didn’t offend me
because that note was so poorly
constructed in wording and
flow that I couldn’t help but
wonder how a person with that
level of writing skill could ever
get into university. But,
needless to say, that was
anonymous (although I have a
pretty good idea who it is...I’ ve
narrowed it down to about
thirty people).

I mean, come on. No name
attached? What am I going to
do, plant e-mail bombs on your
UNIX account? I’m an English
major, not a computer hacker.
As much as I like the taste of
human flesh (tastes just like

chicken, you know), I don’t
bite. Really! I’m a nice guy...at
least I like to think so. The
worst I can do is write a
response. Hey, it’s the only
professional way to go.

So, to the individual who
wrote those poems, “V.Y.
Lawrence” and “Very Ignorant
Nauseating Crybaby to the
End,” I happened to like those
poems. I wasn’t offended at all
(until some asshole had the
nerve to say, “The funny thing
is, all those are true.”
Bastard.), and in fact I thought
they were pretty well written.
I’m actually honored that you
would compare me _ to
controversial British writer and
excrement disturber D.H.
Lawrence (writer of “Women in
Love” and “Lady Chauderley’s
Lover” for the literature
impaired). Of course, it was a
bit of a slap in the face to notice
that the capitalized letters in
“Very Ignorant Nauseating
Crybaby to the End” spelled out
“Vince,” but I thought that was
actually kinda cool. No, I’m not
just saying those things. We
actually weren’t going to print

“Very Ignorant Nauseating
Crybaby to the End,” but 1
especially asked Paul to do so.

See? If you were expecting
a negative reaction, sorry to
disappoint you. I happened to
like what you wrote.

So, to conclude, I’d just like
to say that if you write a
negative comment towards
someone, they are not going to
personally come after you with
a baseball bat. You have a
right to those opinions.

Of course, maybe I
should’ve written something
about the Holiday Season, but
being that that’s something I

just had to get off my chest, I

figured, what the heck. So
with that in mind, I’d just like
to end the 1996 semester with
best wishes for a Merry X-
Mas. I mean Merry
Chri...uh...Season’s Greetings.
Yeah, that’s it.

Peace,
Vince Yim

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