Society should not be tolerant. Tolerance is a dirty word in my vocabulary. Tolerance implies that one is unwillingly subjected to an experience or a reality that he/she must force him/herself to accept. Tolerating something implies that the subject is barely acceptable, or appropriate, or… tolerable.
Society should not operate on a premise of what one can tolerate. Society should be enjoyed and accepted on the basic premise that everything is inherently good, and people can continually interact in ways where no one is ostracized, marginalized, or merely tolerated.
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I bet by this time we have almost forgotten about what the Kony 2012 video is really about. Our minds have been filled up with memes and people saying negative things about the legitimacy of the company and cause. I would like you to remember what you felt when you first saw the video: the initial shock, the awakening of the activist in you, and the feeling that you can do something. I am going to assume that by now everyone knows what the Kony 2012 video is all about. …

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The E-in-C is responsible for supervising the staff and working with the managerial team to produce the weekly paper. They are responsible for the content, focus, theme, images, and podcast material for that week. It is the task of the E-in-C to make sure editorial staff are making deadlines, assist with article research, and to deal effectively with complaints from the readership. They are also responsible for the opinion article each week, though this may be delegated to other editors who are interested in writing the opinion that week. The …

I would like to extend my personal apologies to Mr. Orr, whose speech for the Student Speaker Challenge was misrepresented by last week’s Campus Beat article “Orr takes first semi-final.” Due to a lack of understanding on my part, Mr. Orr’s premise was inaccurately represented in the article and I would like to take the opportunity to correct it.
Last week’s article inadvertently attributed Mr. Orr’s stance on the systemic world crisis to a need for a homogenous world culture and included references to points that Mr. Orr did not address …

I admit to two things straight off the bat: I stole the headline from a season one episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and I’ve already written on this topic a lot this year — lambasting my contemporaries for a lack of involvement in their world beyond Facebook and gossip television shows. Now is your opportunity to prove me wrong, however:
Go vote!
Last year around election time the esteemed Keith Gardner, the then editor-in-chief of your humble student weekly wrote a similarly-framed editorial. I therefore credit him with the form this …