RANT!!!

Students of Yale University come out with a daily newspaper...and I am struggling to bring out my college's yearly mag. And no, I aint entirely to blame. I thought it was a students magazine...STUDENTS...by them, for them. But no, now I realize it's hardly that way. Nothing goes into print unless it has passed the cautious approval of the teachers. Most of whose scanning system I don't agree with. Because a much better written piece on boys indulging in drugs is rejected in favour of a shittily written story on how a stupid girl gets adicted and realises her mistake. Reason, the first story isn't 'clear'...of course, it isn't...it isn't meant to...dude, students don't want moral science lessons in the magazine. Half the good novels in the world have a warped, delusional feeling to them...Kubla Khan, which I hope the teachers teach, was written in a similar fit. Hello...come into the real world. It's not about sheltering 'damsels in distress' from the wolf. It's about empowering them enough to decide whose the wolf.

What is wrong with the institution and its decision maker?! Why is every shred of thought so deeply scanned to reject and idea that is even slightly deviant? Why are the ideas flowing through the place so hackneyed and conservative? Why is the cover painting of a girl with scarlet lips seen as slutty (which by the way, the accusers refuse to pronounce. "This picture...doesn't it look...you know?!") Why are students in psychology classes shown videos of abortion and asked to refrain from sex? If we are taught to be women of the 21st century, why is every girl in the college being groomed into 19th century Jane Austen heroines.

I have half a mind to resign from my duties, but its a tad late and we might as well get it over with. But maybe next year, they should just stop all this hypocrisy and take over this thing they call the mag themselves. All students will have to do is write their tiny stories and poems, and feel gratified if they are chosen to be published.