We recently made the sad mistake of reading a copy of the three sheet newspaper “They said it couldn’t be done”, published by the Freak Power Caucus (FPC) and hand distributed in the Martin Luther King Commons on Sept. 12. We have never read a more pathetic attempt at journalism and humor in our lives. This paper was obviously written by a pair of lonely, attention starved individuals. Regretfully this paper has made us angry so we are giving these poor individuals the attention they crave.

For one, we would never even think of joining them, let alone actually communicating with them. We have a feeling that 99.9 percent of the campus feels the same way we do. Besides, the alternatives they so quickly denounced are 10 times more productive than the FPC ever will be.

We personally wouldn’t join the Greek system, but we are mature enough to know that the system provides activities and a dimension that every major university has. Although the conduct of the John Lennon Society, to us, often appears irrational, at least they strive for beneficial goals. Other organizations attacked by the FPC were Young Democrats and College Republicans; they are accused of being “foolish, snivelling political maladroits.” However, these organizations are recognized as legitimate student groups who exercise their rights not in an attempt to offend their fellow students, but in an attempt to help them. Obviously, the members of these groups will go much further in life than these social outcasts.

As far as these silly subgroups like CLAW and SNARL are concerned, they can hold their meetings in the Illinois forest preserves as far away from here as possible. Their “brothers and sisters in fur” are probably the only beings on this planet who would accept them, and that’s because animals are blessed with the inability to understand them.

Perhaps the saddest fact is it is obvious that their letters to the editor are phony. Any publication that fabricates letters to itself cannot possibly be taken seriously. As far as we can see these synthetic letters are excuses to write more profanity, which is very offensive to say the least.

In closing, even if this publication was meant as a joke, which we don’t think it was, then it was in extremely poor taste and ill conceived. Furthermore, we highly doubt anyone with a shred of actual intelligence or maturity found it amusing.

Thomas V. Aston

Junior

Political Science

James G. Lundgren

Sophomore

Engineering