close birdmad your eyes 010129 ... dean-bean Time to take your final bows, folks. The curtains about to come down and the show's about to close. A party and a strike is all that's left. At least we get to kick off with social events. The close of a show engenders a bit of sadness. A bit like post-partem depression, I'd wager. 010329 ... i never thought this day would end "...i made my self so sick i wish i'd stayed asleep today..." 010329 ... blue star Fuck you. I hope you get to the pearly gates of your heaven and St. Peter LAUGHS IN YOUR FACE. Where in the hell do you get off? There's a reason why students work on the school newspaper -- because they need a voice! They need a way to communicate with the whole student body, you fucker. But that doesn't matter much to you I guess. You're the faculty supervisor, so of course automatically this is YOUR newspaper. Bullshit. This kid writes an article(a very well-written article) about being gay and expelling myths. He refers to the bible and quotes studies that show that being gay is genetic. And you, you sucking hole, you just decide that since you're so fucking homophobic, that you can't possibly allow this to go into print. Well fuck you, you slimey bigot. It's going to be distributed, I'll make sure of it. And I'll make sure that everyone knows about the Lourdes High School policy on free student expression. 020429 ... little wonder Who wrote the article? And if they don't allow you to print it, print it on a seperate piece of paper and stick it in the newspaper (or even just distribute seperately). Oh...and who wouldn't allow it in? 020429 ... blue star it's anonymous... which makes sense cuz they'd take so much shit at lourdes... they left an email address tho... which I thought was cool. And Mr. Clapp won't let it in cuz he's a fucking bigot. I hate him. I'm so pist. Today when Jenny told me I just went crazy. I'm planning on making billions of copies and posting them all over the place with a little note attached explaining the situation. Enough of this bullshit. 020429 ... pralines&cream what state are you in? In California ... Arkanasas, i believe ... and (1,2,3)? other(s), we have more rights to what we print and more protection against censorship than other states. *by "we" i mean student journalists 020429 ... blue star minnesota. and it's not a public school, so we don't get govt protection 020429 ... pilgrim Continue the Struggle You'll be out of there soon But Bigotry and narrowmindedness Are Tenacious and deeply entrenched But remember... Water and Wind wear away Stone 020430 ... little wonder I would have been surprised if they left a name. Fight 'em Megan, it's your last year and you only have a few more weeks left. Kick their asses to the ground and show them that they can't get away with that shit anymore. I'll come help, if you want. I miss schools like that sometimes. I can even wear my boots and a collar for old times sake. It probably won't have the same effect, but that's alright. 020430 ... blue star we're gonna turn the system in on itself.... angie's gonna try to get a football player (probly Sam) to come with when we go see mr. nigon. I'm so angry right now I can't even look at Mr. Clapp. If they don't let us put it in the paper I'm gonna email this kid and ask if it's ok if I print off a ton of copies and just post it around school and hand it out to people. I think I might have already said this, I dunno. But goddamn... and Jenny's just sitting there and taking it. She doesn't agree either but she's backing off right away. What they're saying is that since we've got another article about prejudice, we don't need this one. Well the truth is that the other article is about all the stuff that will not incite controversy. Example: Don't be racist, be tolerant of other religions, etc. It lightly touches on the whole "gay" issue but it just frustrates me so much that this kid had the guts to write this article and leave his email and the fuckers aren't even gonna put it in. Clapp complains about how we don't get articles... well, this is why. Bastard. 020430 ... little wonder as much as i really do miss that school, things like this remind me of why i had to get the hell out when i did. and why going back could quite possibly make me homicidal [i wouldn't be so silly as to take my own life because of them]. i know i don't have to ask this, because i know you already will...but please win this one, or do everything in your power to try to win it. i want to hug the boy who wrote that article, and if someone has the courage to write that in a catholic school in rochester then it damn well better get published. 020430 ... blue star I feel exactly the same way. Angie and I are going in tomorrow I think. Wish me luck everyone! I can't believe this is an issue... honestly. I am so disgusted right now. I guess I'm just naive, but damn, isn't religion supposed to include compassion and open-mindedness? And if Mr. Clapp is so all-fired confident in his religion (he's a baptist, not a catholic...) why is he threatened by an article that is trying to call attention to the need for compassion towards all people, especially homosexuals? I just don't understand it. 020430 ... painted marbles close_yet_far 030219 ... u24 come close and open yourself to me. 040617 what's it to you? who go blather from