I like to think that I am a pretty accepting guy (except when it comes to cockroaches). I hate discrimination and when I see it in society I think it is everyone's duty to bring attention to it, address the cause of the issue and help society heal the wounds of prejudice. That is why I have become a champion for a new cause, for a group of students on campus that have no voice. They walk among us, they are our friends, but to this day they carry a heavy burden of oppression. They are the superheroes of this world, the men and women who carry great power, and with that power comes great responsibility, but without support from the government or a designated space on campus.
With these changes to our campus I think we can do a lot to help those who protect us:
1) A free cape and lycra drycleaning service. That stuff is just so difficult, and who has time to handwash between 3000 word essays and thwarting Dr. Doom on a fortnightly basis?
2) A free drop-in service at the SRC for Superheroes experiencing difficulty. Areas of specialty would be crises of dual identity, time travel rehabilitation service and how to tell your romantic interest about your secret identity.
3) Hug a superhero day. This would be the key event of 'Superhero week' featuring a masquerade party at Manning Bar and cultural events such as poetry slams and photography exhibitions.
4) Designated parking spaces for superjets, waveriders and batmobiles. Parking on campus is bad enough without having to worry about taking up 46 spaces because you souped up your afterburner on the weekend.
5) Special consideration clauses for emergencies such as impending asteroid collisions, arch-nemesis re-emergences, falling planes and pretty women and men hanging out windows.
6) Adjustable seats in lecture theatres for those larger superheroes among us, or those prone to bouts of metamorphosis during emotional outbursts.
7) Creation of the Superhero society. I would propose SUSS (Sydney Uni Superhero Society) as the name. Applications for the first president would be negotiable.
If you feel as passionately about this cause then I would love to hear from you. If you have any ideas about how we can assist our super friends among us, just post a comment below.
Comments
Bring it on, I say! I should link this post to my "Unrequited Crushes" post. I can quickly see Superheroes, be the fourth category of campus personality who everyone will have a crush on at one point in their life.
Posted by: Ghassan | May 18, 2006 04:38 PM
How would they choose the president of SUSS, Tim? I mean...they're all superheroes. They'd all have pretty good CVs, I'd imagine. Lots of comumunity involvement, charity work, rescue missions, successful attempts to avoid armaggedon...the usual stuff. So....I think SUSS would have a problem there.
Posted by: Deanna | June 9, 2006 09:10 PM
Well, yes, that would be a problem, but all good societies have internal conflict. I for one would be very iterested to see the presidential campaigns of people who can emit blasts of energy from their eyes or have super strength. It's super powered democracy really.
Don't forget that the loser can always have the vice president position. Or the treasurer. or social secretary for that matter.
Posted by: Tim | June 16, 2006 04:46 PM
I can also see plenty of new employment for engineers out there. there appears to be alot of work needed to 'upgrade' our campus to faciliate the heros. suggestions i propose:
point 4) due to limited space we might need to get a multi-level carpark in, although they're apparently "ugly" according to architects. based on the tragic concrete turnout of the seymour centre carpark, i say we get less C3A concrete when we build this one.
point 6)i can see mechatronics having fun with one. but simply adjustable seats just does not have enough features to challenge the engineer. i say, we have a seat booster to aid initial force on take off, some kind of glass sheild thing so they can get into their supersuit 'in privacy', an automated system that allows an instant sms to be sent to their friends to take notes for them on take up and some kind of laundry chute to transport their bag into a safe place so no one steals their ipod.
if we realise things suck the first time around, we'll hand out pink UoS evaluation forms one semester following completion of construction and then improve on designs from there.
Posted by: Winey | June 18, 2006 02:56 PM