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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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