BYU-Idaho is peculiar place to say the least. The whole Mormon culture stuff kind of bugged me at first but I'm over that. There is just all this other stuff that revs my engine, so to speak.
The school newspaper The Scroll is just one of them. The first part of the newspaper is always just stuff that students get from other news sources like associated press and stuff like that. It is all about what is going on in the nation and things I should care about but have lost hope over a long time ago. It is the actual student's writing that gets me going. They have this one section called "lifestyles." They might as well change it to the "our take on dating and getting married" section. Every single article is about someones idea to dating. What to do, what not to do. When to do, when not to. It is super annoying and everything you read you learned already in young men and women BEFORE you were 16. It was reiterated and over-addressed in young men and young women. Now it is just a nuisance. I wonder, is there really no other topic under lifestyles that could be addressed? Couldn't they talk about food, music, movies, art, plays, concerts, etc. etc?? Or is dating really all they could talk about. Now, I'm not one of those bitter single people who hate hearing about it because I'm not dating anyone right now or hate being single. I was thinking today how much I actually like being single. It remains the fact that I hear about it everywhere and it is like hearing the same song on the radio on every single radio station. Its just annoying.
Another thing about The Scroll is the letters to the editor. The stupidity level of students here never cease to amaze me. Just when I think it can't get any worse, it does. These people keep writing in and arguing through the newspaper about petty things like, how vegetarians are or are not following the word of wisdom (which came mind you from an article on how americans are not getting enought meat. ???????). Another trivial item was about the death sentence. One person wrote their opinion and so of course, every do-gooder and RM in the school had to write and give their 2 cents and try to support their idiotic opinions by using scriptures. I don't mind if you have an opinion. Even if it is a stupid one. But when you try and use false doctrines and self-interpretations of the scriptures to back your ignorant opinion, that gets me fired up. People are just dumb!!
So these are the latest things to have caught my glance while here at BYU-I. Sorry for the rant but it is just some fun/frustrating things I have noticed.
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ReplyDeleteHere, here. Of course, those idiots that write in are keeping me employed, so I guess I shouldn't say too much. But also, I'm writing an column about how you can tell a girls into you—follow up of my "She's just not that into you" column. Are you going to hate it?
ReplyDeleteOh, and I also agree about Lifestyle. It's ridiculous.