To those who are interested in understanding us

I am sorry if our actions have caused you to misunderstand what we meant by them; the removal (aka Theft) of the chapel scanners was to give people the chance to really experience the thought of what chapel would be like without them. The problem is that nobody cares…about anything, even our most life-transforming chapel services here are forgotten by the same evening. As wonderful as sitting down together to figure out what the ideal community would be, Houghton needs more. The Houghton Administration is already doing a very great deal of planning, and we hope for good to come of this, but the problem is more fundamental. The point of the revolution is that Houghton’s problem is an internal problem within us students; the Houghton administration will never be able to fulfill your desires in an academic institution, and we need to change ourselves rather than to change the school (of course, if we were to change ourselves, we also would have succeeded in changing the school).
President Mullen addressed us earlier this year regarding the Houghton Bubble and made a very excellent point when she said that each person is as free to live in (or out of) the bubble as they choose; my only contention with President Mullen is that she made this point to justify the way Houghton already is. The revolution makes this point to emphasize the need for something beyond what any well planned group effort can provide. The revolution is about people engaging things for themselves, and the only situation where we criticize the administration is when it tries to uphold a false “community” that we’re supposed to have, and thereby, in trying to minimize the internal problems of the students, indirectly enables them to continue in those problems. We here in the revolution believe that our problem is not our deficiencies (whatever they may be), but in how we are relating to them.
Yes, we realize that this is idiotic. We understand the stupidity of the position!