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FRIDAY
One
of the better days of the week.
MEN’S SOCCER
Won
6-0 against SDA! (Source: The Dungeon’s Instagram) (Scores in other games as
yet unknown)
True that, Nessa
Email
is man’s greatest invention. Without email, we are nothing. With email, we are
everything.
JBiebz
Was
arrested today. He tried to post bail, but the police told him that they
promised to “never let you go.” HEEYYOOOOOOO!!!!
Lyrics Quiz
Don’t
know if I’m elated or gassy
But
I’m somewhere in that zone
‘Cause
for the first time in forever
I
won’t be alone.
Lyrics Quiz 2
They
love the way I walk
‘Cause
I walk with a vengeance
And
they listen to me when I talk
‘Cause
I ain’t pretending
Took
a while, now I understand
Just
where I’m going
I
know the world and I know who I am
‘Bout
time I show it [scream]
Articles
Your Guide to Dealing with
Microaggressions
By:
Nessa Garcia
Microaggressions, as many of you probably already
know (#advisorytalks), are those not-so-blatant, often unintentional words or
actions that affect someone negatively, whether he/she consciously acknowledges
them or not. Ok, great, now you
understand what they are. But how do you deal with them? This, in my opinion,
is the most important information. Hopefully you’ll care to read on for the
sake of standing up for yourself and others, but if not, feel free to just go
about your day and maybe buy a Twix bar, which has been recently inflated by 25
cents. Your choice.
Amongst friends, pausing the conversation to
question another’s words/actions is daunting. In theory (a.k.a. what you tell
yourself you’d do but in reality, don’t), you would calmly tell your friend(s)
that what they did wasn’t cool, in which the conversation would then seamlessly
carry on due to your impressive social finesse. After the group would disperse,
grateful people would praise you for your bravery and righteousness. Obviously,
this is not how things work.
When you speak up about something of this nature, it
risks being awkward and conspicuous in a casual setting. Others may then assume
you as “not (whipple)chill,” and possibly too uptight to hang out with. That’s
why, as I learned from the sage Carl Kyrillos, you should speak up about it in
a tone that matches the current conversation. If people are joking around,
speak up in a way that’s light hearted and quick to understand. No one will
have to dwell too much on what you’ve pointed out, but they shouldn’t repeat
the microaggression, at least in that time frame. This quick little action is
infinitely better than feeling uncomfortable and having to hide your feels
through pain-laughter (note: not a real word), feigned amusement that one expresses
towards a microaggression.
But now, what if a teacher says or does something that makes you feel poorly? Where is
your god now? After someone in my advisory posed this question and we fell
silent, Ms. Lloyd offered: “You know, teachers are humans too.” To this, we all
spit out our drinks and began to scream. You mean to say that teachers aren’t
infallible beings and that they can create a microaggression after all their
years of education and life experience? Frankly so, yes.
Unless you are senselessly afraid of your teacher,
communication after a class is manageable. Waiting until the class leaves shows
that you didn’t want to “correct” him/her just for the sake of a show.
Nevertheless, some people prefer to spend their time on word choice and tone,
which is where e-mail comes in. I believe that e-mail was invented to give
people the chance to edit and re-edit themselves without having a page full of
erase marks to show. That being said, your chance to accurately express
yourself in a distanced manner lies within e-mail. Quick summary: e-mail. Did I
tell you I love e-mail?
To be honest, there are never complete answers to
dealing with social situations. However, I hope these are some suggestions that
you can utilize when needed. Now, go ahead and buy yourself that Twix bar. You
deserve it.
XYZ
By:
Colin Garon
My Bishop’s education has helped
me to answer many important questions. When do I use ‘whom’? What causes
gravity? Turn up for what? I’ve solved them all, with a complicated mixture of
calculus, guesswork, and Yahoo Answers. But one burning question remains: How
do you tell someone their zipper is down?
The issue, of course, is that
when you let someone know that their fly is down, you’re implicitly admitting
that you looked at their fly, which is conveniently located right on top of the
crotch. Read: You looked at their crotch. People don’t like when people look at
people’s crotches. So admitting that you’ve done so, even in the context of a
good deed, is off-putting and uncomfortable.
There’s also the method of
telling someone their fly is unzipped. Most commonly, people will whisper “XYZ”
in his or her ear, but then someone else will ask what the secret is and you’ll
have to admit that the secret is that so-and-so can’t even zip up his or her
own pants and is apparently even more incompetent than any of you realized.
This is demeaning to so-and-so. So-and-so was in a rush getting out of the
bathroom. Don’t even pretend that you understand so-and-so’s problems, because
you don’t.
To me, the best solution is to be loud and proud. Scream it. Shout that
so-and-so’s fly is down, that so-and-so is a hot mess, that you never loved
so-and-so anyways. Establish your dominance. Because you are the dominant one
in this situation. Because your zipper is zipped all the way up, as far as it
can go—or is it?
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