Difference between revisions of "Manifesto"

Latest revision as of 11:32, 7 May 2007

When in the Course of inhuman events, it becomes really, really, necessary for a bunch of loonies like us to dissolve the rubber bands which have connected us with another, and to assume among the Powers of the campus, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of the Almighty Dollar entitle us, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that we should declare the causes which impel us to our creation.

We hold these truths to be intuitively obvious to the casual observer at a cursory glance, that all men - (No, no! That's too sexist.) - all persons are created equal (though some are >= than others), that they are endowed by their Creator, we think, with certain unalienable Wrongs, that among these are Life (not in Pittsburgh), Liberty (not at C (no hyphen) M (no 'U')), , and the pursuit of Happiness (not with a 3:1 ratio!?! Who do you think you're kidding?).

That to secure these wrongs, Organizations are instituted among certain bipedal, carbon-based life forms, deriving their just powers from the consent of the oppressed masses.

That whenever any Form of Student Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the Students to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Organization, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Silliness and Happiness.

Logic dictates that Student Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to apathy, while boredom is sufferable, than to come up with a single interesting thing to do. But when a long train of boxcars, pursuing a bird traveling at 30 km/h, evinces a design to reduce them to the previous equation, it is their right - Nay! - their duty, to blow off such final exams. Such has been the patient sufferance of these Students; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Amusement. The history of the present Student Body is a history of repeated apathy and disinterest, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Boredom over these Colleges. To prove this, let Theories be submitted to a doctoral review board.

That C (no hyphen) M (no 'U') has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction of foreign TA's, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving its Assent to their Acts of pretended Instruction For quartering large bodies of rat-gazorch ing frat boys (who are a bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against wall when the Revolution comes) among us: For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from Punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of this Campus: For cutting off our Contact with all parts of the world: For imposing Tuition on us without our Consent: For transporting us to Pittsburgh to be "educated": For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments, and subjecting us to 7:30 Physics exams: For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. C (no hyphen) M (no 'U') has plundered our minds, ravaged our QPA's, burnt our Tartan burgers, and destroyed any last vestige of self-respect we might once have had. C (no hyphen) M (no 'U') is at this time transporting large armies of foreign TA's to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy of a college in a civilized nation. It has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless native Pittsburghers, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions. In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A University, whose lack of character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the educator of the ignorant masses. Nor have We been wanting in attention to our Faculty brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our application and matriculation here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these 7:30 exams, which would inevitably interrupt our beauty sleep. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We, therefore, the Representatives of the KGB, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Man Who Rules the Universe for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the weird People of this Campus, solemnly publish and declare, That we are, and of Right ought to be, Strange and Unusual People; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to anybody but ourselves, and that all political connection between us and them, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Strange and Unusual People, we have full Power to levy Humor, conclude that we never should have come here in the first place, contract and expand, establish Anarchy (No, wait! You can't do that. My poli-sci professor told me so.), and to do all other Acts and Things which Strange and Unusual People may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a so-so reliance on the Protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortune Cookies and our crib sheets.