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Message to University of Rochester Students - Incoming and Current

23 June 2008 Comments Posted by: Andrew S.

If you’re a student at the UofR or you are going to be this fall, then you need to watch this video.

If you are a student at the UofR and you agree with this message then we want you as a contributor on this site.

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briko158 said:

What a cunt. He talks about inciting change and that it needs to come from us the college student and it needs to happen on our campuses. Yet he provides no suggestion himself. No semblance of new and revolutionary thought in this guys brain, just regurgitated filth. Change does not happen by protesting or demonstrating on college campuses. Ideas are born on campuses yes. But real change happens in the senate and on Capital Hill. Maybe if this pratt bothered to graduated maybe cleaned himself up a bit he could work for one of the many branches of government and incite some real change himself. This utterly useless twat needs to shave his goat and get a fucking job. And whats with the cave? Is he the poofy version of Osama? Fucking useless.

# 9 July 2008 at 4:20 pm

Andrew Slominski (author) said:

First of all, let me point out that we didn’t censor you here. We’d rather let your careless use of expletives show your ignorance and lack of confidence in your ideals.

Now here this: According to you “Ideas are born on campuses…” but they are spread there as well. College is a time of formation for the next generation of politicians, doctors, businessmen, teachers, tax attorneys, engineers and every type of professional. It takes more than politicians to change the world. It takes everyone!

Also, I think you are very naive to put your faith in the current leaders on Capitol Hill. (Another stunning display of your intelligence: a capitAl is a city, a capitOl is the actual government building or administrative center. Therefore it is called Capitol Hill. I digress) Congress has a single-digit approval rating for the first time in history. Isn’t that a sign that they aren’t going to listen to us? Isn’t that a sign that honest candidates don’t have a chance of being elected?

Wake up, buddy. Stop putting your trust in your government. Don’t you understand that governments are the most dangerous man-made creation in the world? They were responsible for 200,000,000 deaths in the 20th Century alone. The Holocaust makes up less than 5% of that number.

From your picture you look like you are in the military. Don’t you understand that the US government has carried out deadly chemical, biological and radioactive tests against the military? Look it up! Google is your friend.

# 9 July 2008 at 10:07 pm

briko158 said:

Andrew, my use of expletives were more than deliberate, chosen, and placed with thought, not carelessness. I apologize for my callus misspelling of capitol and I am glad that you dedicated a fourth of your reply to pointing it out. It shows your pettiness and your lack of depth. But now look at me I am the one digressing.

Ignorance and lack of confidence in my ideals I most surely am not. I DO believe in governments and I most certainly believe in ours. It is our government which you seem to love to slag off that allows people like you to voice your opinions in such an open forum without censorship. It is our government that affords you access to education and health care. It is our government that allows you to elect officials who you believe will best represent your interests.

I am not so naive to think that ours is one that is without fault. Our government is not perfect and is ever evolving. Kids like you or the one in the video post may very well one day by the leaders and representatives we elect. Governments are responsible to their people, and it is with the people whom they govern over to take the responsibility for monitoring the systems they put into place. Despite the low approval rating we must try and keep in mind that these people we elected into these positions and at the end of the day we were the ones who put them there. So when you boil it down we as people are the ones responsible for death toll.

Listen Andrew taking pot shots at one another like this could go on forever. We could both stand here behind our computers and have a pissing contest about who is more intelligent or who is more in tune with the issues, but I really don’t think that is what either of us want. I in fact really like your site and what it is aiming to do. As a native son of Rochester I have held the opinion for a long time that our city could be great. It is absolutely within our power to incite changes and it is with our generation to make this things happen.

So I would like to take this opportunity to extend the olive branch and with that in mind hopefully both of us can move forward and work together to make this city a great place. Let me know.

# 10 July 2008 at 1:31 pm

LetItBe said:

Both arguments have valid points here — though I admittedly will side more with the Liberals. The creepy guy in the video has some valid points, that we are too committed to just being average people and letting our government live our lives for us. We DO need to get out there and incite change because, the creepy guy was right — I don’t want to just sit here and regret not doing something when I was young enough to do so.

There hasn’t been a true world leader — someone on level with Martin Luther King Jr. or Mother Theresa — in a LONG time. Maybe that someone could be one of us. Wouldn’t that be awesome?

Now, on some level we do trust our government — if we didn’t, it wouldn’t still be here. However, that isn’t to say that we need to do something so that more of us can be happy with it. It does have single-digit approval rating, and that is NOT right. So the rich white male population is okay with it, but most of us do not fit into that category.

I also agree that he made no suggestions as to how we can incite the change, but that’s not necessarily that difficult. We can create Facebook groups, make posters and spread the word first around our own campus and then to our friends on others. That’s small, but everything has to start out small. We can join other campaigns, such as SaveDarfur and ONE and start our own. We can petition our government to listen to us as the future movers and shakers.

True, 60s-style protest probably won’t work now, God forbid we would want another Kent State. We can call our Congress -men and -women and voice our own opinions and show that the young do care about more things than their MySpace pages.

Just saying.

# 1 September 2008 at 8:32 pm

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