thehowe_v7.1

While I'm on the topic of affirmative action, I'd like to address something that's really been getting on my nerves. In fact, I may have mentioned this in a previous rant, but it just pisses me off so much that I'm going to expunge more rage now. There is a group on campus (it may even be nation-wide, I'm really not sure) called BAMN. They are called BAMN because they support affirmative action By Any Means Necessary. Now, maybe it's just my peculiar fondness for logic, but it seems to me that BAMN chose an awfully bad name. If, by reviving Hitler and Genghis Khan, giving them killer cyborg bodies, and letting them loose in Washington D.C., you could guarantee affirmative action, would you? No? But you said By Any Means Necessary! How about killing a couple of administrators that don't support affirmative action? I'm not saying that the people in BAMN are bad, but someday somebody's going to take their creed a little too seriously, and somebody's going to be hurt. What's even worse in my mind is that they're starting High School chapters around Ann Arbor. Great, that's just what we need. Tell the pimply-faced hormone bombs that "By Any Means Necessary" is a good motto. Surely only good can come of this! (And don't tell me that high school students are mature enough to realize that BAMN doesn't really mean "By Any Means Necessary." I've only been out of high school a year now, and trust me: they're not.)