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Thursday, May 3rd 2007 Issue 7, Volume 8 FantasyFantasy comescomes toto lifelife inin BestBest Players’Players’ creativecreative stagingstaging ofof “Alice“Alice inin WWonderland”onderland” Picrures by: Lauren Jeanneau Page 2 EDITORIALS Thursday, May 3rd, 2007 The Rant By Echo Columnist Mike Noble I’m sitting in a computer lab, stressing to meet a deadline and I have nothing to write about. Originally, this rant was sup- posed to be about grad, but I real- ized that it topic a bit overdone, and some people don’t want to be re- minded about the woes of graduation so close to the ceremonies. So Cartoon By Cynthia Assen after a few minutes of brainstorm- ing for something unique and origi- At Home... we’ve all fallen for a giant gimmick- make-up. We graduated from el- pointless and blown way out of nal to write about, I began to real- - like sheeps following the heard. ementary, middle school and many proportion. ize something – there isn’t really By Echo Columnist I can imagine spending ex- of us are still going to graduate from Can you tell me differently? anything original left in the world. Kathryn Majdanski orbitant amounts of money on a college, university, or from other Can you tell me I’m not wasting Now before you bring up wedding, but not so much for high post-secondary institutions. hard earned cash for a single party, topics such as art and music, let me Grad. Woo. One night— a school graduation. I cannot even Finishing high school is re- hardly different from any other Sat- just say that a lot of artists and thousand dollars down the drain. begin to describe how angry I am ally not that big a deal. The only urday night. Are we setting our- photographers are inspired by Great. with myself for falling into the perk is that we no longer have to selves up for disappointment? other people, even to the point What is grad anyway? I’ve whole trap. What upsets me deal with the drama, principals, LGs Please, I beg you to tell me other- where they are replicating their been asking myself that question most is the fact that I’ve already or people that we really don’t care wise, because if you can it would style, just in different pieces. for about a month now, and all I spent $600 on my dress (including for anymore. Exhilarating. But wait, make my day. For music, well, nothing is can come up with is that it’s a sin- alterations) and almost $100 on aren’t we all going to have to deal But I’m sure nobody can tell original anymore. Everything uses gle night when we all get together shoes. with gossip, terrible bosses, and me that grad is anymore than what the same chords, the same melo- to party. As for transportation, I’ve al- skanky co-workers when we enter I’ve just said: an expensive, over- dies, the same beats; it gets way Sure, we the “class of dou- ready booked my $100 (per person) the workforce? hyped party. We are all spending too overdone, sometimes to the ble o sev’” are celebrating a new limo. I am now eight hundred dol- Oh yeah! That’s right. and hyping this whole grad thing point of not being able to tolerate chapter in our lives, but I’m begin- lars in the hole and I can’t turn back. Maybe real life isn’t that different up to the point where when we get it. ning to believe that it’s not worth I still need to pay for my ticket, and from high school. Sorry to break it to the grand finale, we’ll be asking Sadly, all music is like this, the hype, nor the amount of money I might as well just keep going and you all, but I am beginning to be- ourselves, ‘what was the point?’ so unless you find some magical that we’re spending on it. Perhaps blow another $250 for my hair and lieve that this entire grad thing is Jazz-Techno-Indie-Power Metal- Neo Classical-House fusion, you’ll methods of cruelty, including but have to figure out which of the imi- ...And Abroad start to recover. There is no doubt Canada is highly respected ...And Abroad not limited to leaving the tators you like best, and if you do in my mind that the federal govern- for its moral values and progres- By Echo Columnist wounded to suffer in agony and find that particular genre, please tell Elizabeth The ment shows little concern for these sive systems of health care and die slowly, dragging the con- sea mammals or for the region’s education. However, nations world- me, because it sounds like it would April 2nd marked the official scious across the ice flows with ecosystem, where catastrophic ice wide openly condemn Canada’s rock. start for the Canadian Seal Hunt – boat hooks, stockpiling dead and conditions have already caused commercial seal hunt; They are tak- You even see it in movies and an annual atrocity during which injured animals, and skinning high numbers of baby seals to per- ing drastic measures against Cana- television today. “Disturbia” was hundreds of thousands of seals while still alive and able to ish. At this rate, the numbers will dians by limiting global trade. Al- recently released, and after seeing defenseless seals are cruelly feel pain. Just continue to ready, the controversy has resulted the trailer, I instantly thought of a clubbed or shot to death by East hearing about decrease un- in boycotts of Canadian seafood certain episode from The Simpsons, Coast fisherman. With nearly one such inhumane til the seals products and tourism. It is only a in which Bart spies on Flanders million seals – from harp seals to acts being per- are extinct. matter of time before our countries from his house. Upon further re- grey seals - killed in the past three formed upon We will then reputation is tarnished forever in search, it turns our that this years alone, the commercial seal such helpless be left with the eyes of the world. Likewise, I Simpsons eposode was based off hunt off of the coast of Newfound- creatures is ex- the guilt of find it extremely disturbing how our the Alfred Hitchcock movie “Rear land is the largest and most brutal cruciatingly allowing an- government continues to encour- Window.” So the number one box mass slaughter of marine mammals painful, and it is other beauti- age this nightmare at the expense office draw of the past weekend on Earth. completely be- ful and inno- of our international image and was a rip off of a parody. Very origi- Babies are the primary targets yond my com- cent creature economy. A country that is sup- nal. – about 98% of the seals murdered prehension how to disappear posed to advocate civil rights and Even the epic “300” is taken in 2006 were younger than three those who hunt off of this fairness instead ignores the cries from a comic book, I will admit that months old. They are killed for their these seals can planet. of protesters and fails to prevent it was a good movie, because if I precious fur pelts, which are col- bear to repeat- Mean- the bloodshed of the tortured don’t say that all the grade 10’s will lected and sold to various compa- edly cause such while, Cana- seals. My pride has been altered in come after me wildly shouting nies for the creation of clothing and suffering. dian taxpay- such a way that I feel ashamed to “SPARTA!!!.” home items. Since there is no mar- The Cana- ers are also call Canada my home. So where do we stand in all ket for seal meat, the leftover car- dian govern- victims of You can try to put a per- of this? Our blockbuster movies casses are scattered and left to rot ment is fully aware of these on- this tragedy as they unknowingly manent stop to the barbaric and are taken from the works of yester- on the ice in an abandoned, bloody going massacres. Even worse, fund the yearly activity. The gov- unnecessary hunt of seals by giv- year, all music in their respective and absolutely horrifying mess. they approve and sponsor this ernment of Canada subsidizes the ing your support to animal rights genres essentially sound the same I’ve always questioned the ethics vicious practice. In late March, the hunt with tax dollars which spon- organizations such as the Humane and even TV and art are getting of the fur industry, and upon hear- Department of Fisheries and sor various governments programs Society of the United States, the overdone. ing these facts, I wonder: Do the Oceans announced this season’s such as seal product development World Society for the Protection of So this leaves us in a strange hunters feel no guilt for sacrificing kill quota of an astonishing and production, research, process- Animals and the International Fund transition phase, nothing new will thousands of young lives just for a 270,000 seals, nearly 10% of the ing plant construction, and coast for Animal Welfare. As well, con- be made until something new rolls profit? And does the fashion indus- current population. The govern- guard services. It is a shame how tact your local politicians and the around, but until then, I’ll just be try really want to advertise a trend ments’ motives for endorsing this the government chooses to invest federal government and voice your writing newspaper articles that correlated to such savagery? mass slaughter are kept undis- into the unessential sea hunt in- opinions.

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