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Sarcasm lost in UA

To the editor,

I'm sitting at my friends dorm room Wednesday night and I see that "Planet of the Apes" is on campus TV. I think "great, I get to catch the best part (the end)," but as I watched Charelton Heston ride down the beach to find the Statue of Liberty destroyed and poking out of the ocean, I was crudely interrupted with the invasion of CTN News. I was so excited about the end that I kept saying "shut up, it's the best part!" but when I found some CTN "preacher" destroying one of my most beloved movie moments, I was filled with enough anger to write a letter.

Now I know that you are probably saying that I am taking this too far, but there are some things that should be appreciated, classic movies being one of them. The other, I have noticed being lost recently, is sarcasm. I have gone to many of my classes and finally started to act like myself, but have been told "you're weird." I don't know what has happened to this civilization that the sarcastic are considered "weird?" Sarcasm is a beautiful artform and should be preserved at all costs. It is intelligent, creative and above all, funny. Maybe it's just me, but ever since I started attending this University I've noticed that there is absolutely no sarcasm around me. I go to class every day and feel that I have to hold back my ideas and jokes as they may "offend" or "hurt" people. I'm sorry if some people can't hold their weight when it comes to sarcasm, but as of this moment I don't really care. This is my new attitude: Speak your mind! I urge every other student in this university to do the same. If you have something to say or if you have a sarcastic comment, say it! Finally, I think there are only two things I need to say:

1. It is better to say something, no matter how wrong, than to go silent and regret it.

2. Take every comment aside from this I say, with a grain of salt.

Matt McCarthy

Pre-architecture freshman