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July 2000- The Montrose Teen View Falls
Into the Hands of a Lunatic and Those
Little Differences: A Masculine Rebuttal
The Montrose Teen View Falls Into the Hands of a Lunatic
by Nicholas Hagan
Well, to those of you who read
the Montrose Teen View (thank you Allison), I am here to say that we have
come to the end of a legacy. Amber Whaley, cofounder and former editor-in-chief
of the Montrose Teen View has decided that it is time to pass on the torch.
Only now can I, Nicholas Hagan, begin to appreciate what Amber has done
in this past year. Amber has worked tirelessly to keep this paper up and
running. She has done everything from writing grants to promoting and distributing
the paper to writing letters to holding writer's meetings in her own home.
Every month she has written articles, formatted the paper, updated the
web site (that she created), taken the paper to print, picked it up and
distributed it. Not to mention putting up with the View Crew's crap and
excuses (actually mostly my crap and excuses). And I am sure she
has done a lot more work that I am unaware of. What I am trying to say
is that Amber has invested a lot of time and effort into creating and maintaining
a newspaper that, while not very well known or with a large circulation,
is one of the best examples of someone, youth or otherwise, who decided
that they were going to do something. And Amber, you have. Thank you for
your dedication and determination.
And with that, here I am. Hopefully
I will be able to keep this paper rolling merrily along. But the only way
I can do that is if YOU help (Why do I feel like a PBS funds solicitor?).
The Montrose Teen View is (or is trying to be) just that; The Montrose
Teen View. If you have something to say, which I know you do, then we have
space to print it (under most circumstances; you can't hold me to most
of what I say). The Montrose Teen View was created by teens for teens.
Help us live up to our name.
by Brian Brim and Aaron DelmanIn reading the article "Those Little Differences," by Eleanor Rigby, in the May issue of the View, we (Brian Brim and Aaron Delman) found many generalizations of the male sex. These generalizations are offensive because they were not thoroughly studied and are untrue in many cases. There are many differences between boys and girls, not that we are experts on either side, but we do know when we find a flaw. The Bathroom, however dreadful at 6:30 in the morning, we still must use. And yes, us guys do use it. The seven bathroom "essentials" that are mentioned in the last article seem to imply that guys are not very concerned with their hygiene. This is not necessarily true. Many guys in fact do use other "essentials," such as shampoo. Some guys even comb their hair.
Editor's Note: The story "Those Little Differences" was first published in the May 2000 issue of the Montrose Teen View and was written by "Eleanor Rigby." The following article is a response written by two teenage males.