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Inconspicuous

Senioritis Edition

Volume 4
Issue 2
May 2009
Dear Reader,
You may or may not be acquainted with the publication you are now holding, and if not, introductions are
in order. We are an independently published, anonymous underground newspaper created for South. We
attempt to fill a void that our esteemed colleagues at The Axe cannot; that of satire, humor, and ideas the
administration may disapprove of. We are free to speak our minds.

We have chosen anonymity for a simple reason. Darkness gives us strength. Our ideas, our stories, our
creations will be judged on their merit alone. The author’s identity is irrelevant. However, if you do desire
to contact us, feel free to send an email our way or visit our Facebook group, titled “Inconspicuous Lit,”
which is administrated by our writers. Of course, we are all identified with our pen names. If you are in-
clined to do so, make a game of guessing our true identities.

You may also contact us at inconspicuouslit@gmail.com. Feel free to contact us about anything. If you
have some aversion to the publishing your correspondence in our newspaper, please say something in your
email. If you want to make completely sure your email is heard, please learn how to spell “inconspicu-
ous.” Yes, English is odd, but get over it. And enjoy the issue.

Blatantly Subtle,
The Inconspicuous 2008-2009 Staff

Ghetto Hamlet p.2


News from the Year 2020 p. 4
Please Stop Being Annoying in the Hall p.5
I’m So Angry All the Time p.6
The Twenty-First Century and Your Right to Content p.8
The Day I Didn’t Get Kidnapped by Inconspicuous Lit p.9

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Ghetto Hamlet Hollywood at once a thug and an angel; his
by Guest Author Grace Kouba judgments regarding thugitude are valid, since

In my defense, you DID say to be creative and angels rarely make false claims.
original …
The Hard Facts: Tupac Shakur’s song
- A Serious Attempt at Your Assignment that is
“Definition of a Thug Nigga” clearly delineates
Not Meant to be Disrespectful -
the characteristics of true thugs. His thug “keeps
The Mission: to prove that the title character of [his] finger on the trigger of [his] glock” (l. 19);
William Shakespeare’s tragedy Hamlet is a thug. Hamlet carries his sword everywhere. Hamlet is

also practiced with a sword; his skill is proven in


A Quick Logos Appeal: Princeton University’s
the last scene in his duel with Laertes. Tupac’s
WordNet online dictionary defines a thug as “an
thug rides “down the block lickin’ shots at the
aggressive and violent young criminal.” Hamlet
punk-ass” (l. 20), a modern-day version of the
easily fits this definition. He is aggressive,
Hamlet-Laertes sword smackdown.
as evidenced by his condemning to death

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, and by his       Tupac’s thug also “play[s] the cards [he]
antagonistic encounter with his mother in her was given” and “thank[s] God [he’s] still livin’
chambers. He is violent, as evidenced by his ” (l. 5). Hamlet himself is lucky to be alive after
slaughter of the king and Polonius. He is young; Claudius sends him to his execution in England.
while different theories exist as to his exact age, He uses the cards he was given, the schooling
his encounter with the gravedigger proves that he that did him “yeoman’s service” (Shakespeare
cannot be older than thirty. He is also a criminal. 261), to avoid his own death; he acknowledges,
The murder of a king, even by a prince, is most too, that a higher power is responsible for his
certainly treason and a crime against the crown.  discovery of his execution letter when he tells

Horatio that “there’s a divinity that shapes


      The Princeton WordNet Ruling: Affirmative;
our ends, rough-hew them how we will”
Hamlet is a thug.
(Shakespeare 259).

      Tupac’s thug also has a distinctive manner


A Quicker Assertion of Ethos: A major motion of interacting with women; as he says, “I ain’t in
picture was filmed about the life of Tupac Shakur. love with her, I just want to be the one to hit her”
Its title: Thug Angel. Tupac was considered by when “it’s time to shake a hoe” (ll. 14-6). The
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male-female relationship is based upon sexual relationship; the parent-child relationship in

drives, the absence of love, and a lack of respect Hamlet is certainly strained. His mother has not

for the female gender. Hamlet exhibits all of acted with his best interests in mind, or even his

these in his scenes with Ophelia; his motives are mediocre interests. She married his uncle, Hamlet

clearly sexual when he asks her, “Lady, shall I lie gets screwed up, and everyone dies as a result;

in your lap?” (Shakespeare 143). He bluntly tells ultimately, the mother and the stepfather fucked

her that he “loved [her] not” (Shakespeare 131). everybody over with their conniving actions,

He mocks the female race when he comments on actions so reckless as to be considered hateful.

the use of makeup, claiming that “God hath given


      The Tupac Tattoo Ruling: Affirmative;
you one face, and you make yourselves another”
Hamlet is a thug.
(Shakespeare 133). If he really loved Ophelia, he

wouldn’t have been such an asshole in this scene; The Verdict: Hamlet is a thug. Word. He’s “my

his lack of regard for Ophelia’s womanhood is definition of a thug” protagonist (Shakur ll. 3, 18,

very thug-esque. 72, 75, 78, 81).

Lastly, Tupac claims that a thug’s “attitude Mission Accomplished.

is shitty” (l. 59). Hamlet’s attitude throughout the

play is less than sunny. He contemplates suicide,


Source for song lyrics: http://www.metrolyrics.
he wallows in self-pity, his insides boil with
com/definition-of-a-thug-nigga-lyrics-2pac.html
disdain for his mother’s behavior. To say he does

not have a shitty attitude would be to say that the * Sorry, Babbs. I realize that “Ghetto” is not a
Sams do not disrupt class. His depression and real type of literary criticism, and that this essay
angst are of the utmost thuggosity.    could be viewed as incredibly offensive. I … did

it anyway. I wanted to challenge myself.


      The Tupac Song Ruling: Affirmative; Hamlet

is a thug. 

Irrefutable Evidence: Tupac had a tattoo


across his stomach that said “THUG LIFE.”

According to Urban Dictionary, it stood for “The

Hatred U Gave Lil’ Infants Fucks Everybody.”

His reference to infants implies a parent-child


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And now, for a change of pace, we bring you...
NEWS... from the year 2020
by Maynard James Ferguson XII

4J Classified

Employees Strike!
A faction of 4J classified employees and is that a feeling of malaise and vague resentment
counseling staff went on strike this week, citing towards the staff on the part of the students is vital
disrespect from students and short lunch hours. The to the functioning of the school. If our pupils felt
move came not long after several groups within the like they mattered, do you think they would jump
school broke off from existing unions to form their through all these inane hoops just to graduate?”
own, calling themselves SLOUCH (School Leeches A SLOUCH member who asked to remain
Our Unreplaceable Chattering Hours). anonymous expressed wonderment at teachers’
The strike has been far from typical: with stamina. “I don’t know how teachers do it. They go
the union members’ jobs usually consisting of gos- to work at seven and sometimes don’t get back until
siping, talking on the phone, and going to lunch, four, five o’clock—and on top of that, they’re stuck
students and administrators alike have been stunned in their classrooms all day where they can’t talk to
to discover that employees have not actually left their friends.” When Inconspicuous asked why she
their workplaces—in fact, productivity has sky- thought that might be, our interviewee speculated
rocketed since the beginning of the so-called strike. that perhaps teachers are just stupider than the staff
This surprising turn has left the district in a state of members making up SLOUCH. “They must be, to
extreme confusion as to what should be done. take a job with so little free time!”
“We considered, of course, raising their
pay, lunch hours, and so on, but why? Frankly, they
don’t seem to realize how a strike works,” said su-
perintendent boopledeeboop in a public statement.
Boopledeeboop went on to speculate that perhaps
the workers’ ignorance regarding the purpose of
labor unions was a symptom of public education’s
slipping quality. “I mean, aren’t they supposed to
read The Grapes of Wrath in, like, ninth grade?”
Other administrators, however, say they
understand SLOUCH’s motives. “While it may
appear that these employees are doing more work
now than they were before the strike,” said South
Eugene High School principal ;aihbewowi;argh in a
phone interview Tuesday, “this is a misunderstand-
ing that results from a lack of knowledge about
what SLOUCH employees’ jobs actually entail.”
;aihbewowi;argh further explained that many of
these employees were hired for the express purpose
of making students feel unimportant, invisible, and
five years old. “What the public doesn’t understand
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Please Stop Being “excuse me” or a polite “get the fuck out of my
way, asshole.” The only tactic that I’ve been
Annoying in the Hall able to use successfully is to just shove through
by Felix Falkasius the group. I do this a lot. I don’t think my
perpetual single status has anything to do with
Does anyone else get frustrated by how this, but I don’t really know.
other people choose to navigate the halls at
South? For me, this year has been orders of The Runner:
magnitude worse than the past, perhaps because Thankfully this beast is quite rare. Trained in
the administration has made the brilliant the congestion between B, C, and E halls at
decision to give armies of freshmen six minute Roosevelt, this high-velocity underclassman
passing periods to travel 10 feet across the 300 bolts over, under, between, around, and through
hall. Thanks Randy. Now get those dang kids any obstacle in its path. Although frustratingly
off my lawn. illogical, these tend to be the least bothersome
During my adventures over the past of hall-navigators, as they’re always moving
few years, I’ve discovered several irritating faster than you. However, when you think
stereotypes of hall-traveling that bother me. If about it, their pace makes little sense. Six
any of these sound familiar stop. Seriously. It’s minutes is plenty of time to get from one side
getting annoying. of the building to another. Even if you’re going
all the way across the building you can get there
The Backpack Roller: without running. Maybe they just want the
“Whirr...whirr.....whirr.....whirr..... OW MY exercise.
ANKLES!” This is the sound of the dreaded
backpack roller. Often found careening down The Annoying People:
the 700 hall and break-neck speed, owners of This is a blanket term for all people who do
rolling backpacks are generally tame. However, annoying things while walking down the hall.
if accidently provoked, their loosely-attached For example, I was walking down the 700 hall
tail can trip, maim, or even kill nearly-innocent with Maynard a few days ago, when I heard the
hallway users. The best defense against their shriek of air being slowly let out of a balloon.
dangerous bi-wheeled mace is to give them a Hoping they were done, I looked behind. I’m
wide berth, avoid eye contact, and to NEVER not normally a violent person, but SERIOUSLY.
cross their path. That sound is incredibly annoying. Don’t do
that. This category specifically excludes Walter
The Girl Line: Bender. If he annoys you, you have no sense of
Three to five sophomore and junior girls humor. His singing, dancing, random poetry,
standing in a reasonable facsimile of pre-Louis and general upbeat demeanor always makes my
Napoleonic Parisian barricades meandering day better. Walter is cool.
slowly down the back hall with their matching,
unpronouncably-named North Face backpacks
and the standard-issue, recently-replaced
QWERTY-keyboarded cell phone- this is
the girl line. These menaces are particularly
frustrating because there is absolutely no way
to fight back. Between the text messages and
verbal gossip about who Sally hooked up with
last weekend, there is no room for a simple
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I’m So Angry All the Time “Well, it’s true I haven’t got any friends
the perpetually dramatic adventures of or boyfriends. How’s Cho Chang?” Luna
Harry Potter, boy wizard wondered aloud, examining the rafters.
by Maynard James Ferguson XII Harry’s collar felt too small. “Wow.
If Ron was here, he’d be doing the Dead
Awkward Turtle.” He did, however, feel a
Harry Potter and His Trouble sudden longing to closely examine Ms. Chang’s
Graduating flowery-smelling, if painfully ugly bangs. He
had a fetish for poorly styled hair, as has been
previously observed in this series.
It was a regular afternoon. Harry Potter Luna missed any and all awkwardness
was sitting in the Gryffindor common room, that had arisen as a result of her question. “Ron
watching his pet predatory bird devour a small is nice. How’s your A.S.S. doing?”
mammal whose neck she had broken. Thoughts Predictably, Harry became enraged
of hurting people ran through his head. All was once again. “You’re the second person today
not well in the Potterverse. Little did Harry to call me an asshole! God, Luna Lovegood,
know, All was about to get worse. Lots, lots you must have an anal fixation, or you really
worse. More sentence fragments. Many more of get off on hurting people’s feelings! I’m telling
them. They were coming. Indicating ominous Dumbledore!” And with that, Harry sprinted
danger. off angstily in the direction of the place in
Meanwhile, Hermione burst into the school where Dumbledore lived. He was
the room, buzzing stressfully about her AP scarcely partway there, however, when Severus
electromagnogyrotonomic metabiological “The Severer” Snape materialized in the middle
magnanimationology course, and Harry’s angry of the hallway. His appearance signaled a
little bubble became bursted quite suddenly. dramatic moment.
“Oh, and Harry, Professor McGonagall told “Don’t run with your wand drawn,
me to tell you that unless you get your A.S.S. Potter, you could put an eye out,” the greasy
in gear, you’re never going to graduate.” Harry man recommended. Typical of himself, he was
took offense quite immediately and without hoping to get Harry to do something foolish so
understanding that Hermione had just used an he could get him, and possibly Ickle Ronnykins,
acronym. for whom he had an inappropriate fondness,
“What? Damn you and your huge front to spend a few hours in his lair. “Would you
teeth straight to hell!” ejaculated Harry sweatily, like a candy?” He then offered, and it was a
drawing his wand for dramatic and/or comic good thing he did, for Harry had been about
effect. He turned on his puny heel and stomped to say something annoying and get himself
through the portrait hole like the eight-year-old detentionified. Hagrid, etc, however, had always
he was inside. warned him against talking to people who
Outside in the corridor, Harry found offered him free candy, and so he went on his
Luna Lovegood floating around the entrance to hormonal way, leaving Snape alone with his
Gryffindor Tower rather creepily. “Oh, hello, feelings.
Harry. I was just pontificating on the nature “Poopy face,” Harry told the gargoyle
of Nothingness and man’s tendency towards outside Dumbledore’s room. Mounting the
Thanatos, the death drive.” spiral elevator, the Potter boy found the hairy
“You’re really weird,” observed Harry old man standing facing a window. He turned to
with his usual disregard for the feelings of face his little protege in a fashion that created
others. tension and drama.
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“What seems to be the problem?” asked of the Dark Side from the spirit of the ancient
Dumbledore, with a hint of the irritating air that Sith Lord Freedon Nadd, was favored at 1:1
he already knew exactly what was the problem. odds. Harry, who had never until just now really
“You know, A.S.S. is an acronym for ‘Advanced known that lightsabers actually existed, felt
unSuckiness Sertificate’, not an insult,” sure that he was going to lose, but persisted
explained Dumbledore prematurely. “And since stupidly to prove all his friends wrong and
I’m always watching you, I’ve noticed that all because he wanted to graduate. A whistle
your friends, even that little-headed Weasley blew, signaling the start of the duel. The two
boy, have finished their A.S.S. projects, and you fighters circled dramatically, sounds of “bzz
haven’t.” zzzzZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzZZZzzzzzz” filling
Tears welled nonsequitorially in Harry’s the otherwise silent room. Suddenly, the blind
eyes. “Professor... is this because my parents members of the audience knew by the sudden
are dead? Does it have something to do with “CKCKSSSHHHHHH” sound that an attack
my wand’s cream filling and fluffy yellow had been made and blocked.
exterior?” He paused as though the thought Half an hour passed, Snape making
process was requiring all of his brainpower. all the attacks and Harry weaseling out of
“Does this mean I won’t be able to defeat losing a leg or a head each time by using
Voldemort? Incorporeally possessing a snake? annoyingly effective spells like “Protego!” or
Horcrux? Elder wand? Charlie the Unicorn?” “Expelliarmus!” Harry decided it would be
Dumbledore took a brief facepalming good if he tried an attack. He swung at Snape’s
break from the predictably mind-numbing legs, being too much of a pussy to try to attack
conversation, and then, realizing that this plot his head or abdomen, even though there was
was going nowhere very slowly, decided to turn no chance whatsoever of him actually hitting
the whole thing on its head. “I’ve decided to his opponent. Then something very strange, but
pass your A.S.S. if you can complete a single all-too-expected happened: Harry’s weapon was
super awesome challenge,” Albus explained. pulled almost magically out of his grasp and
“Oh, calling me an ass again, are flew upwards, cutting down a chandelier. Snape
you?! Yeah, well, I’ll show you! I can take was inexplicably distracted at that very moment
you any day, old man! Name the terms of by a gaggle of fourth-year fangirls flashing him,
your challenge, you wad of douche!” Harry and the chandelier landed squarely on top of
pondered, demonstrating yet again his him. The crowd went wild. Harry had yet again
incredibly poor memory and short attention won the day without demonstrating any skill
span. whatsoever.
“You must take on Professor Snape in a Afterwards, Harry and the gang went to
duel.” the Hog’s Head and got shit-faced drunk. Then
“Fine.” they all lived happily ever after, had dozens of
“A lightsaber duel.” children, and named them all some variation of
“Sweet!” four to five teachers’ names.
“TO. THE. DEATH.”
“Balls.” Fin
-------
And so the next fine day, the whole
school gathered to watch Severus, a champion
Luchador, battle Harry, who once nearly
won the Triwizard Tournament practically by
accident. Snape, who had learned the secrets
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The Twenty-first Century and of software and hardware limitations on data-
movement. Almost all popular technology has
Your Right to Content some type of DRM built in. LCD monitors and
by Felix Falkasius video cards have HDCP technology that can prevent
content from being viewed except under certain
The recent Pirate Bay spectrial in Sweden circumstances. Most music and video bought from
has raised awareness of intellectual property issues online stores can only be played on authorized
around the world. For almost a decade society devices and players. Many video games have
has been struggling with the changing practicality, DRM-enforced install limits and authentication. We
legality, and morality of content-ownership in the are paying for the content. Why can’t we use it the
digital age. How do we create incentives for artists way we want to? Simply because freedom doesn’t
and thinkers to create content, while preserving the guarantee huge profits for the middleman.
ability of the end-user to fairly consume the work? These issues are largest in the music
The current system is broken. Copyright industry. The consumer is no longer willing to
law in the United States and around the world is overpay for content and have practically no money
broken. The Copyright Act of 17901, an “Act for go to the people who actually created the media.
the encouragement of learning, by securing the The record labels are outdated and dying. In 2007
copies of maps, Charts, And books, to the authors Radiohead released their self-published album
and proprietors of such copies,” allowed authors “In Rainbows” online. It was a huge success, and
to have sole publishing rights to their content for demonstrated that the non-label model can work
terms of 14 years, extending to a maximum of 28 effectively. However, Radiohead was already
years if the author was still alive. In the years since well-known before they started using the internet
then, copyright terms have extended to a maximum for distribution. Another example of online music
of the life of the author plus 95 years. This is success is Jonathan Coulton. After he was laid off
absolutely absurd. The original intent of copyright from his job as a programmer he started writing
in 1790 was to preserve the incentive to create music and publishing it online. Now he’s making
new knowledge. As corporate legislative power a living as a musician and tours extensively. He
has increased, however, that noble goal has been shares most of his music for free online, but is still
perverted into a profit-securing machine. able to make a reasonable living.
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act2 So where do we go from here? Our
(DMCA), signed by Bill Clinton on October 28, copyright system is broken, Big Content is making
1998 is one of the tools Big Content uses to secure an obscene amount of money by producing over-
their stranglehold on media. The DMCA prohibits commercialized boring media, and we don’t have
circumvention of access controls on digital media control over the content we purchase. The only
without permission from the copyright holder. This solution is freedom and creativity. By creating
makes it illegal to copy an encrypted DVD onto an our own content, writing and performing our own
iPod, or play a song bought off iTunes on a Zune. music, writing stories, filming movies, and making
This legislation raises the issue of fair use. What art we can free ourselves from the continually-
use of copyrighted content requires additional rehashed formulaic junk we’re being force-fed by
payment to the owner and what use does not? large corporations. By supporting groups like the
Many in the internet community believe that content Pirate Bay and Creative Commons, and artists like
should be free from restrictions. The user should Radiohead and Jonathan Coulton we can show
be allowed to move the content they own from to the world that the middleman is unnecessary and
device to device, and use it as they please. counterproductive.
To prevent this freedom and increase
profits, Big Content has pushed the use of Digital
Rights Management, or DRM. DRM doesn’t refer
to a single technology, but rather a large range
1 http://tinyurl.com/cyryp9
2 http://tinyurl.com/6u7hf
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The Day I Didn’t Get something of their lives. With slick advertizing
and the penchant of parents to live vicariously
Kidnapped by Inconspicuous Lit through their children, colleges have record
by REDACTED applicants this year, resulting in more than half
the entire National Honor Society of SEHS being
My story is a disturbing one, but true. I was waitlisted for Multnomah Community College.
not kidnapped by Inconspicuous. That’s right, after Getting into college has become a sick episode
months of tactical planning, weeks of negotiations, of Scholar Survivor, where teens must start four
the apparently not-so-menacing literary team that or five charities, maintain a four-point and break
churns out this not-school-appropriate rag did not Michael Phelps’s latest record. After which they are
put a reusable PC Market bag over my head, shove so exhausted they can’t kidnap a teacher, or write
me into the back of someone’s mom’s Honda, and thank you note for that letter of recommendation.
drive me to an isolated, undisclosed location for I was tempted to blame the administration.
further questioning. I even received threatening That, after all, is what a goodly number of others
emails, such as the following “We are coming would do in a similarly humiliating situation. And
for you. Tomorrow! …. At what time, exactly?” when you think about it, if the administrators in
Tomorrow came and went, as it is want to, but nada, this building would take the time to catch the kids
zip, no show. I remained safe in my classroom, involved in writing this paper, and punish them
grading essays. severely with long, fatherly lectures on the real
I was disappointed, to say the least. I purpose of creativity and good grammar (to land
imagined some Patty Hearst-type situation, where a job creating Bi-Mart mailers) this paper would
I would slowly go crazy from too much time spent have a much higher circulation. Kids would be
in the company of my captors. I would begin to screaming to get on the staff; they’d be kidnapping
see things from their side and start to use phrases everyone from library aides to the ladies down
like “Why does anyone have to learn this” or in the career center to get an article published.
“This is dumb” when confronted with fascinating Honestly, what do those folks in the office have to
concepts like the subjunctive. I would become so do? All they have is 1600 students, a dilapidated
brainwashed I would stop trying to teach math and building, state-mandated Calculus standards for
just conduct class seminars on our feelings about sophomores and a $16 million budget shortfall.
numbers (Seven; Representing hope or horror? Could they please quit worrying about drop out
You decide!) rates and put a stop to the illicit publishing of
Then after a long, long, time (I had set literary non-fiction?!
aside about an hour and a half for my kidnapping) But maybe… maybe the blame lies in
I would be rescued in a glorious mission involving myself. Like Jimmy Buffet’s self realization while
lots o’ stormtroopers and maybe even the mayor wasting away in Margaritaville, the haze of espresso
on a megaphone yelling at Blatonly Subtle to “Put can sometimes allow me to see things more clearly.
that pencil down!” I’d be lifted out of the situation Maybe they didn’t kidnap me because I’m not really
in a helicopter and taken to the cushy new hospital a threat to their security. I’m not the educational
where I’d get to sleep the whole night through and monstress I’ve tried to cultivate. In the end, I’m not
eat powdered eggs in the morning. The Man. I’m just the nerd who holds the clicker.
After this harrowing experience I would I have been scarred by this experience.
write a brilliant tell-all book, send out half a Make no mistake, it is a soul-crushing experience to
hundred query letters to agents and publishers and be told, nay promised, you will be kidnapped, and
get rejected again. have the incident never materialize. I don’t think I
But it never happened. will ever fully recover, despite the hours in therapy.
The question that lingers in my mind is Most days are good, and I just take it one day at a
why? Why wasn’t I kidnapped by Inconspicuous? time. But every now and then as I stand before a
I blame a number of factors, most vehemently class I am overcome with the eerie suspicion that
the college admissions process. The kids were some student, somewhere is contemplating not
just too busy trying to get into college and make kidnapping me.
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(INCONSPICUOUS) Staff Application

The first issue of Inconspicuous was distributed January 19th, 2006. The vi-
sion of Inconspicuous was of an outlet for students to publish their thoughts and
ideas outside of a classroom setting and the restrictions imposed on writers of
the Axe.

Today, we follow that tradition and extend that vision to you. Inconspicuous
wishes to give all unheard student voices the opportunity to write about what-
ever they desire and to silently watch as people appreciate their hard work.

If you want to be a part of Inconspicuous, email InconspicuousLit@gmail.com


with the subject “2010 Application Request,” and we will reply with an appli-
cation for you to fill out. Each member of Inconspicuous also has a facebook
account, if you would rather message us (and tell us your email) there. Keep in
mind that, because you may be writing for Inconspicuous next year, wall posts
requesting applications are discouraged.

All applicants should send in their applications as soon as possible. We want to


talk with next year’s staff as soon as possible – some of us have full summers.
Try to get your applications in by the end of June. This means that you should
request an application soon. If you suddenly desire to be a member of Incon-
spicuous after the deadline has passed, check in with us. We may still choose to
accept you.

Tell your friends.

-The Inconspicuous Staff

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Please do your part and pass this issue on to someone else, or leave it
somewhere inconspicuous for the next reader to find.
Thank you for your help keeping us alive.

--The Inconspicuous Staff

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