The two-party system is killing Americans interest in the workings of our government. It kills idealism, and it undermines the significance of individual participation. So if you re looking for conventional wisdom and safety in numbers, pick up one of the major city papers. Those news institutions have a responsibility to hold to their advertisers, to their stockholders and to their brow-beaten audience. Those institutions huddle within the two-party system because that s just what you do.
New ideas are bad business.
But this is a free college paper. And not at just any college at Columbia College, well known to foster freaks and dreamers and outcasts of all shapes and abilities. Strange ideas are the reason a lot of people attend this institution. Outlandish ideas evolve here. Dreams of beating what seem like insurmountable odds and becoming a famous filmmaker, a famous dancer or a competent journalist.