scor·pi·on - Any of various arachnids of the order Scorpionida, of warm dry regions, having a segmented body and an erectile tail tipped with a venomous sting.
van·guard - The foremost position in an army or fleet advancing into battle.
Two metaphors describing myself and what this little niche of the internet will become.
I am a Scorpion, a student at the University of Texas-Brownsville/Texas Soutmost College, and I feel that the above description of a scorpion accurately describes us students (multifacetic and fans of warm regions) and our potential (the venom in the sting, a warning against bigger, badder predators who might try to tread on us.)
But a vanguard?
What army? What fleet? What battle?
I feel that the time has come to organize and mobilize and form our own army of motivated and aware students, and to charge forward into the battle for our education, for our money, and for our future as students and inhabitants of this great state in this great coutnry.
The federal government takes advantage of our napping and passes legislation to build a wall in our backyard. Our administration levies fees against us and only three or four students bother to turn up for the hearings. Our student government association (or the circus it's become) represents, with few exceptions, a motley crew of senators who are there just to add an extra line or two to their resume.
And they get away with it.
Why?
There's no one to fight them.
Enough is enough.
It's time to wake up and rub the fog out of our eyes.
It's now or never.
This will be the bugle alerting you to today's issues and how they relate to us as Scorpions. At the same time, this piece of the internet will provide you with up-to-date information about upcoming events (political or otherwise).
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