HERESY

What would it be like if the world were turned upside down?

What if tuition increases were seen as the vilest, most abominable act a person or an institution could ever commit? What if the uniform were no longer seen as a gauge for quality and that those who dare to impose it will suffer the harshest of punishments known to humankind, like inverted crucifixion? What if campus publications were free to release as many as they wish and invoke religious symbols without censorship and offense to the sensibilities of the institution concerned?

However, in this perfect world (pun definitely intended), education must be a privilege. The uniform must be imposed (and changed time after time), and campus publications must be suppressed. To speak against such a perfect system would mean committing a crime tantamount to heresy.

And Today's CAROLINIAN is guilty beyond reasonable doubt.

For nearly twenty years, your publication has remained consistent in its heretical dogmas of service and struggle for students' democratic rights. Along the way, we have been tried and tested, harassed and persecuted, threatened and betrayed. But we have always remembered that primarily, our loyalty resides and should always reside with the students, and that has been our driving force to continue facing relentless persecution.

Heretics, idealists, atheists, communists... call us what you will. But the fact remains that as long as the students are oppressed and as long as Today's CAROLINIAN exists, we can never be silenced despite all the name-calling and attempts to repress us, for our hands that write in protest of all the atrocities experienced are, in truth, the hands of the students who seek to be heard. Our defiance is the students' defiance and our heresy is the students' blasphemy against an oppressive educational system.

Welcome to the age of the profane.

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