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Everything you need to know is on our Web site. Just log on and follow am @ the instructions, then get out and e enjoy the sun. You're already on ® your way to a brighter future. SUMMER ¢« % SESSION , “e ° carleton.ca/summer Simple. Sensible. Smart. (613) 520-3500 about it unless you harvest your own wheat, make your own mayonnaise, build your own tooth brushes, and chop down the trees and process the paper you make your rant on. Go up to Nunavut, live in a tree, wipe your ass with leaves, and think for a couple of years and | will worship the ground you walk on and preach what you rant. That was just an example, but you may see my point... maybe not... This is not what bothers me the most. Are you ready, there's more. This is your get- ting ready time... Ok, we're good. What really bothers me is that a lot of this ranting that goes on is, in a round about way, a competition about who can be the most funky artsy-fartsy melancholic down on society romantic glimmer of a persona that was embedded in our heads long before art school ever occurred to us. It seems as though the only people that really make the cut are those who have taken it upon themselves to put their stickers all over the school or to do something "original" by stuffing every institute mailbox with a funky tidbit. Don't get me wrong, all of these things are what compel us to read Influx and to bother looking in our mailboxes. BUT, the next time you go on a rant, whatever it might be, consider why you're doing it. j Nobody eciadnobody@hotmail.com Dear Nobody, What?! We here at Influx are glad that you wrote in with your concerns, we're just a little confused as to what they are. Is your beef with the maga- zine or Emily Carr Institute? Your friendly Editor. PS. For future reference: We like to receive writ- ten submissions on disk. That includes letters to the editor. Ben Smith’s Mighty Goo will return next month Letter to the Editor ‘A Nobody's Rant Students... Faculty, I recently had the pleasure of acquainting myself with Influx. (On the whole I quite enjoy. Great reviews et cetera. However, | have noticed a lot of ranting that takes place; some of it | find rather amusing at face value, and some of it that | feel offends my intelligence. That experience... or experiences has resulted in this: my own personal rant that will, hopefully, amuse you at face value or perhaps offend your intelligence... or, maybe inspire a nod of agreement or a catchy verse poem. Alas, | begin: have issues. The first step into making a statement with any type of validity is to admit that. Yes, | have issues: big issues, small issues. Hence | am at ECIAD exploring ‘my issues through the wonderful world of art. So are you. Yup, that's right, you have issues too. All of you. Wel, that really isn’t the problem. My problem is that some of you, not al, like to manufacture issues. You do this because Influx will publish them beside your name and then you are an instant politcal revolutionary in the litle world ‘we call Emily Carr. Now, some of you have great things to say. However, believing in a great thing is far different from acting upon a great thing that you believe in. What I'm saying is: Don't bash nuclear families out of the bitterness you have towards your parents’ divorce. Most of your friends have a nuclear family. Don't write a story about consumerism if you're wearing clothes that didn't fall from the heavens. Don’t write Summer Camp Jobs in the U.S.A. Lakeside Residential Girls Camp in Maine—Visas Arranged |Counselors: Combined chidcarezachng. Must beable to each or ead ane of more ofthe folowing actives: gymnasis, tennis, swim, sal, canoe, wate sk, ats (ncluing stained gas, sewing, jewelry, wood, phe), dance, mus, tear, archery, wideress tips, eld sports, equestrian. Service Workers: kche, laundry, housekeeping, maintenance & grounds. Non-smokers, June 17 to August 23. Atractve salar (US) plus tavelalowance. Vist ou camp on our photo website: Mhomepage.mac.comppewaforgirs| To Apey: Appicatons are avalaleon ou website: www Kippewa.com oc con- tact us atthe numbers ited below fo a staff brochure and application, Kippewa Box 340, Westwood, Massachusetts, 02090-0340, U.S.A. |: Kippewa@tiac.net | tel: 781-762-8291 | fax: 781-255-7167 pi Ret ‘Sun. Sand. Study. An unlikely combination unless you're taking a Summer Session ‘course at Carleton University in Ottawa. Flexible and convenient. Courses are avail able days and evenings in classrooms and ‘on our itv channel. Whatever course you choose will fit easily into your schedule, leaving time for the beach, chores, and a job. Everything you need to know is ‘on our Web site. Just log on and follow @ _ the instructions, then get out and enjoy the sun. You're already on ‘your way to a brighter future. carleton.ca/summer e e © Simple. Sensible. Smart. . (613) 520-3500 sion Session Session Session Session Sessic about it unless you harvest your own wheat, make your own mayonnaise, build your ‘own tooth brushes, and chop down the trees and process the paper you make your rant on. Go up to Nunavut, live in a tree, wipe your ass with leaves, and think for a couple of years and | will worship the ground you walk on and preach what you rant That was just an example, but you may see my point... maybe not. This is not what bothers me the most. Are you ready, there's more. This is your get- ting ready time... Ok, we're good. What really bothers me is that a lot of this ranting, that goes on is, in a round about way, a competition about who can be the most funky artsy-fartsy melancholic down on society romantic glimmer of a persona that ‘was embedded in our heads long before art school ever occurred to us. It seems as. though the only people that really make the cut are those who have taken it upon themselves to put their stickers all over the school or to do something “original” by stuffing every institute mailbox with a funky tidbit. Don't get me wrong, all of these things are what compel us to read Influx and to bother looking in our mailboxes. BUT, the next time you go on a rant, whatever it might be, consider why you're doing it Nobody eciadnobody@hotmail.com Dear Nobody, What?! We here at Influx are glad that you wrote in with your concerns, we're just a little confused as to what they are. Is your beef with the maga- zine or Emily Carr Institute? Your friendly Editor. PS. For future reference: We like to receive writ- ten submissions on disk. That includes letters to the editor. Ben Smith’s Mighty Goo will return next month