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Before proceeding, I would like to put my remarks in context. My differences with Cucci and Yoon represent legitimate differences in our conceptions of what campus opinion writing should...
...Yoon's editorial is entitled "Beavis Is No Bill Safire," and it was quite a revelation for me (I thought Beavis and Safire were the same person). Yoon writes, "Campus opinion has been brought down to the level of name-calling and ridicule. In short, Beavis is invading the written word...
...Yoon demonstrates his failure to understand the different functions of different modes of discourse. He also shows a lack of understanding about the theoretical bases of the popular culture that Beavis and Butthead epitomize...
...example Yoon cites to support his point is my editorial on Harvard-Radcliffe Students for Choice, pointing out that I spent a significant part of my article attacking the egregious typographical errors in their newsletter...
...Yoon first failed to see the sophisticated argument taking place behind this parody; it was a kind of "meta-editorial," if you will. He also failed to recognize that my parody was an embodiment of the laughter of the Bakhtinian carnivalesque, a laughter which observes few limits (as Bakhtin scholars Gary Saul Morson and Caryl Emerson have pointed out). In fact, this irreverent Bakhtinian laughter is what our good friends Beavis and Butthead draw on so liberally...