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random rants

Students speak about what’s on their minds. In 142 words or less, and you’re invited! If you have a rant, e-mail it to rathodja@grinnell.edu. After all, complaining in a public forum is always more fun that doing it alone.

Time for active participation

Congratulations, to everyone that has gotten their initiatives passed. However, getting the administration to view your proposal is not the final step to invoke change on campus. It’s mid-way!!! What’s needed is “active participation” that supports your proposal. I would look at past “active participation” at Grinnell. Due to limited space those wanting to “actively participate” should look into the events that have changed Grinnell into what it is today. The examples that I raised at the open forum are a few ways to get students to “actively respond” so that other (the students and the administration) notice the society (regionally and globally) around us.

Opposition will exist because every man is entitled to his opinion. However, the struggle for power will go to those most influential. With that being said, get yourself together and go get it.

—Delwin Pinkins ’06

Build a zoo for animal bands

So I see a new concerts poster. Cool. But it’s another damn animal band. You know what I’m talking about. I want some more hip-hop or rocking bands like Hockey Night, not another Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Deerhoof, Birdnames, Minus the Bear or These Arms are Snakes. I mean, does anyone else think it’s weird how many animals are performing at Grinnell? Does someone have an animal fetish? Or just a fetish for bands with animal names in them? The Yardbirds are tight but I don’t need “dancey prog-rock,” that’s a little too genre-specific for my musical tastes. If only we had a time machine, we could book Led Zeppelin for their recording of Led Zeppelin. Let’s spend our concerts money on time-travel research, not bands with animals. We should open a fucking zoo.

—Reid Wyatt ’06

Note to campus, pubs bandit

To the campus body: winter has arrived and you are walking on thin ice with only two rants submitted this week.

To the anonymous person who looks at questionable websites in the back room of the Publications building and steals our chips: we’re onto you.

—Jason Rathod ’06, Opinion Editor

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