Word: beavisization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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I still read every student journal of opinion, but the awe I felt as a freshman has been replaced by contempt and irritation at the deterioration of editorial debate. Campus opinion has been brought down to the level of name-calling and ridicule. In short, Beavis is invading the written...
For some reason, America is obsessed with stories of the outre. Consumers of the news media have developed a "Beavis and Butthead" mentality. They watch from their living room sofas as the world marches by on their television screens. They love to ridicule the things they see and mutter asinine...
The Beavis mentality is incompatible with the purpose of the opinion page, which is to persuade, not to ridicule. Even when reading Peninsula, you shouldn't be looking for the childish and asinine. Instead, you should be reading for reasonable arguments that make you think about substantive issues.
In the end, the student body can decide what the intellectual level of campus opinion writing should be by changing its attitude towards debate. Fatuous scorn has no place in editorial writing. After all, hunh hunh....Beavis sucks....hunh hunh hunh hunh....
Poetry is the thing in MTV's first Spoken Word Tour, which wraps up after 20 cities in Cambridge, Massachusetts, later this month. It features the fiery Reg E. Gaines and two other poets reading their work on a spare stage. What would Beavis say?