Ignorance is Power; Regime Uses New Methods

by Lane Bankins, Editor and Neil Dewar, Editor-in-Chief

The fascist regime has instituted a new method of note-taking at Westwood to ensure we remain ignorant and easily manipulable.  This new method achieves this by using students' precious time in asking easily answerable questions in the "Cue Column" area, then answering those questions down below in the "Summaries" section.  Not only does this waste time, but it also wastes space, causing paper to be wasted as more of it is used up needlessly, contributing to the environmental destruction of the world.  Overall this method, supposing lines are drawn correctly (if not, even more space may be wasted), wastes almost 40 square inches of space per side of paper, leaving only 54 square inches for the use of note-taking.

The regime also claims that with repeated repetitions, knowledge retention increases.  Not only is this an insult to our intelligence, it is a blatant set up for their excuse to repeat in our senior classes the same things we learned as sophomores!

They claim more than nein repetitions of any subject will result in almost perfect retention, repeating continuously it was important to get more than nein repetitions of a subject more than nein times, stressing the importance of more than nein repetitions for acceptable retention. Evidently the new regime believes we have the attention span of the citizens in "Harrison Bergeron" after only two weeks of rule.