Written by Will Reno
In case you missed it, and you probably did for a number of reasons, Harding was recently attacked by an anonymous group. I’m talking about The Bulletin. Actually, that’s a typo, it was written on their own handout as The BULLetin, which is fairly accurate. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, I’ll try to clarify the situation for you.
Some people, probably students, released a bulletin exploiting easy targets found at Harding with cliches and out-of-date slangs. It was a piece of paper with three articles that came off as borderline racist and practically stomped on the face of the Church of Christ. On the side, they managed to slip in some one-liners like the announcement that Friday was “in CAF now BYOTB (Bring Your Own Taco Bell).”
I’m sure I’d like to get a sweet case of diarrhea while I’m in the caf. Great idea! To top it all off, they printed the inside upside-down, which is probably some elaborate joke that only humor elitists would understand because its a metaphor for something political. Give me a break.
If I haven’t sold you on the fact that The Bulletin was as terrible as Kansas’ showing in the second round (busted my bracket), then I’ll give you another line or two from the respected news team. There was a “hilarious” article on the prayer wall’s missing status which included a quote from Danielle Langley saying, “I’m astonished that my peers wouldn’t respect a piece of butcher paper taped on a wall. If they won’t revere that, then I don’t know what they will.”
Good one guys. I bet you’d like to see some gold-plated Etch-a-Sketch covered in Worchestershire Sauce up there, wouldn’t you? Obviously its cost effectiveness was a key in its existence. Harding’s not about spending thousands of dollars on something that’s going to be hanging up on the wall or in trees for a couple of months. It would be a waste of money.
Out of fairness, The Bulletin does have some positives about it. The first one is that it only reminds us of how classy The Weather Report was. At least The Weather Report, better known as TWR, poked fun in harmless ways, was well written, and the anonymity made it even more fun.
The other plus, and the only other thing I could think of, was that The Bulletin gives us, the student body, another chance to recycle potential trash into reusable paper. It’s not the paper’s fault that it had terrible things done to it, so let’s give it another chance.
