This past week, the message chalked on pathways around campus has been, “Do You Agree With Byron?” Byron is a senior undergrad student who’s put up a testimony both online, and in the student newspaper. All of this is sponsored by the Campus Crusade For Christ.

I guess I was a little disappointed to find out today that this wasn’t a brilliant home-grown UWaterloo idea, but that similar ‘I Agree With…’ campaigns are going on at a number of North American schools, including Mac and Queens.

Many of the messages surrounding popular buildings have been defaced or supplemented in various creative ways by counter-minded individuals, and similarly, the online forum is beginning to be overrun by single-post users who drop links to Infidels and then never return.

Ultimately, whatever you believe, if you plan to take a stand on it in some way, make sure you’ve thought about a bit. Someone who claims his opposition to be blind followers and then cuts and pastes huge articles from other sites as ‘debate’ is useless except as part of a larger screaming body of Cyber Sisters.

I guess the lack of open, intellectual debate is the biggest frustration I have with this whole issue (and many others, really). Why can’t intellectual people just discuss things without resorting to insults and mud-slinging?

On a lighter note, for some good, Waterloo fun and hijinx, check out our very own PhoneBooking.com, now hosted separately from the school, since it was eating up too much bandwidth…

Mike

PS — And for the record, yes, I do agree with Byron.

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