Bathroom graffiti should be more high-brow By Jason Motz
Nexus (Camosun College) March 25, 2009 VICTORIA (CUP) – Whenever I use the washroom facilities on campus, I’m assaulted by the degenerate art of, well, some degenerate.
Most of what I see and read is typical grade school wit: crude boob humour, poems on the subject of shitting – as though bathroom users need a refresher – and, alarmingly, racial epithets.
Did I miss something? Did Hitler win the war? Has there not been 2,000 years of human evolution?
Why the fuck, then, are there goons on campus who feel it necessary to scar stall walls with their idiocy, pig ignorance, and humour so low-brow and lame the Wayans Brothers would call it weak and unfunny?
A logical assumption is this spectacle of public defacing began in grade school, where it succeeded in eliciting some crass accolades from a pack of like-minded chuckleheads.
Sadly, the practice has graduated along with the Rembrandts of the toilet.. >> | What hath God wrought with Twitter By Ishmael N. Daro
The Sheaf (University of Saskatchewan) March 25, 2009 SASKATOON (CUP) – From smoke signals sent by our ancestors, the use of carrier pigeons, through to modern communications, we are driven as a species to connect, interact, and collaborate.
The first major achievement in telecommunications was the telegraph, perfected by Samuel Morse who lent his name to the famous code of dots and dashes still used today.
Upon completing the first telegraph line between Washington and Baltimore in 1844, Morse likely sensed what a profound change was afoot when he sent the first message, “What hath God wrought?”
In the decades and centuries to follow, other innovations followed such as the telephone, radio, television, and of course, the Internet.
On the web, there are numerous ways to talk to people and spread information. >>  | | Campus Kiss | | |
