(November 22, 2005) — I’ve been working on this here newspaper for over two years now and have witnessed the release of well over 30 issues to you, the Clark student. One thing that I have noticed with each release is the recurring act of throwing the paper away without so much as opening it, saying that “it’s just not that good.” Now I’ve heard of ignorance being bliss, but just wait a second here and tell me, what really is it that you don’t like? I’ve been so baffled by this trend that I have decided to use this column, my own personal soapbox, to ask my fellow students (the ones that throw the paper away without reading it anyway) to try and answer this question for me. The most prevalent response as to why exactly you don’t like it is: “I just don’t find anything interesting in it that relates to me.” Okay, that’s reasonable. However, one of the fundamental tenets of the paper is to offer a voice of the students to the students. (It even says so on the bottom of this page). We usually have a variety of sections in the Chronicle ranging from the general news and events at Clark, to entertainment, to science and technology, to sports. We try our best to create an informative, yet entertaining product for your reading pleasure. Now it is obvious that we cannot publish the things that interest every Clark student; after all, we are quite the diverse student body. But that is where you come in. Society now has become a culture of numerous protesters and many a-nitpickers, but the activists and the go-getters are few and far between. The teenage years used to be about rebelling and telling it to the man, but now our new generation prefers to take the easier option of saying “meh, that sucks” and then talking about Brad and Angelina. So now I shall restate my previous question, what really is it that you don’t like? No really, feel free to let me know; you can always send a letter to the Chronicle staff expressing your views, or, for you non-handwriting types, you can email me (el.phisho@gmail.com), confront me in the boys’ bathroom (3rd floor), or attack me on my way to calculus (2nd floor, by the window). Just get me your opinion, and I’ll be sure to delegate. But why stop there? I’m sure there are many things you don’t like in our world today. And surely, once you leave the safe womb that is high school and get thrust into the cold dark black hole that is the real world, there will be MANY things you won’t like. Might as well get started voicing your opinion now. And you can have faith that once people start seeing us pimply-faced teenagers stand up and voice our opinion on things that matter, society will take notice. I guarantee it.