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Wespeaks:
Ampersand Sucks

If Luke del Tredicci and Aaron Hilliard were dead, they would be rolling over in their graves. Their baby, the Ampersand, has been a source of humor on campus for years. Now, however, due to the poor quality of the "copy editors," the Ampersand is no longer funny. Instead of providing laughs to those who read it, the "joke" page of the school paper actually sucks humor from the surrounding environment, black hole style, and has become the literary equivalent of repeatedly banging one’s head against a wall.

Now I appreciate bloody tampon jokes as much as the next guy, don’t get me wrong. But I think the time has come for the Ampersand to be put down, à la Old Yeller. By shooting it now (and by shooting I mean pulling a Kevorkian and unplugging the Ampersand from it’s proverbial life support), then we can preserve the page in our memories as the original authors intended it. 

This page does a disservice to the quality product published by the Argus in years past, and also serves as a sneering critique of humor at Wesleyan. If this is the best-written comedy that our campus can provide, then perhaps we do not deserve to have a humor page in our paper. I would rather have no page at all than one that serves as a mocking reminder of the inadequacy of our student body.

Brown is a member of the class of 2003.