This week I’m going to complain about you.

Just thought I’d throw that out there right from the start, though to be more specific, I’m really complaining about the students of Skyline College in general.

In this very issue of The Skyline View we have for you the Advice Nerd, where John Harrison tackles the subject of STD awareness. Elsewhere, Liezl Laurel and Shannon Elliott both take on the subject of Class Registration for the upcoming spring semester.

But how does this relate to you?

The majority of the students at Skyline College are apathetic, selfish and lazy. The staff of this paper spend countless hours in this newsroom week, after week, after week and most people on this campus don’t even spend the time to pick up the paper and actually read it. In fact I feel perfectly comfortable in writing this article because I know that the only people who would be offended by it are too preoccupied with themselves to have even picked up this paper in the first place.

The fact of the matter is this, our news staff is extremely dedicated to this college, and we work hard on this paper for you, the reader, to have something interesting and informative to pick up every bi-week. The fact that we can put so much effort into bringing these issues right to your door just to have to haul away 1,800 out of 2,000 papers every time we put new issues out on the racks shows me just how much you all care about what’s happening with your school, and with the way it’s being operated.

Ask yourself this, if you were to read any of the articles that I mentioned before, would you take them seriously? Would the information given to you have any effect on your decisions in the future? Or would you just assume that we don’t know what we’re talking about and just do whatever you want anyway?

I’d be willing to bet on the latter.

Now let’s look at the other side, we do have some students who do read this paper. We have before and will continue to receive letters to the editor from the occasional student or faculty member who wants to have their opinion heard. For that I am grateful because it keeps my hope alive that the people of this campus do in fact care about something, and in the end all I am I really trying to accomplish is to get people to care.

Maybe this article is being written in vein, maybe as you’re reading this all you can think is, “Why should I listen to you? You’re just a stupid kid who likes to complain and be the center of attention.” We’ll maybe you’d be right. But no matter how you feel about me, I’m still here and I’m still talking. If you have something to say, then I challenge you to come out and say it. The email address is [email protected]. As long as you give us your name, and refrain from using vulgarities we will never refuse to run your letter.

This article was intended to make people mad; I wrote it with the intention to get people more involved in the day to day activities of this school. If you want to prove me right, and tell me that the school really doesn’t care and that all of us on the staff of The Skyline View are wasting our time, then do nothing. Sit there and read the paper, ignore my words and be lazy.

However, if you want to shut me up, and show me that you aren’t the lazy apathetic campus that I think you are, then find something in this paper that pisses you off and send us an e-mail right now.

The choice is yours, but I doubt you’ll do anything.