
Hi Comets!! hiiiiiiiii :3
First thing’s first, we hope you voted! Not because any of the options are particularly appealing, but because some of us happen to prefer slowing the onset of fascism as much as possible (ideally completely) and sometimes to do that, you gotta do what you gotta do.
On that note, you’ll note that this is a unique issue of AMP. Back in 2003, when The Mercury was not only alive but the only print publication sponsored by UTD, a group of journalists felt that the people running the newspaper were too obedient to the whims of UTD administration/Student Affairs, which ran directly at odds with the interests of the student body. As it turns out, UTD admin has always made decisions that harm the student body and suppress the student voice, and it was this injustice and the complicity of fellow students that spurred the creation of AMP — this very magazine — by former Mercury staff. It is in the very lifeblood of this magazine to call out the bullshit of this campus’ authorities, and to that end we feel it our civic duty that when admin is cutting corners and undermining the student voice (not to mention contributing to genocide overseas, impacting countless lives including the families of students at UTD), we bring that to your attention. This, coupled with the fact that a lot of anti-UTD pitches came in this month, has inspired the main theme of this magazine:
UTD administration, and specifically Student Affairs, has harmed both the student body and the integrity of free speech on this campus, and must be held accountable.
In particular, we would like to bring to attention Vice President of Student Affairs Dr. Gene Fitch, Senior Director of Marketing and Student Media Jenni Huffenberger, and Media Advisor Lydia Lum, who are all largely responsible for the hasty dismantling of The Mercury.
We hope you enjoy this special edition dunking on UTD, and also that it pisses you off a bit. The school’s penchant for genocide and fascism has stripped us of a lot of nice things, like the Spirit Rocks and, I don’t know, print fucking journalism. And who knows — maybe we’re next.
Also, while we’re calling people out for shit — Chi Phi (one of the frats) did a transphobia against the girl who writes the horoscopes, and her girlfriend (also transphobia’d) wants everyone to know the entire frat is a bunch of fuckfaces. You can read about it in The Retrograde, the new independent publication started by the former staff of The Mercury.
To Student Affairs and, to a much lesser extent, Chi Phi: get bent, assholes.
Signed,
The Esteemed Staff at AMP (Including the Girl Who Writes the Horoscopes)
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