ROAR Covers

A dangerously obvious one here, but a topic i feel must be brought explicitely to light.
Now, Kings doesn't have the greatest track record of instigating and maintaining a student-led fourth estate structure. Even those rotten stinkers at UCL have done better, having as they do a student radio station which is going fm this week. The good man Drummond's alleged attempts at the setting up of something similar here only descended into murky threats of speech only podcasts.
Now, you may cry, surely Kings has Roar! But then you would have to sit quietly and consider the stupidity of your ejaculations. Everyone knows Roar is terrible. From its trite, underwhelming attempts to take on a glossy magazine format instead of a respectable, London Student esque newspaper guise, to its endless, boring articles on Rag week, cringing pieces on sex and dating, and ill advised attempts at humour, the paper is even more of an embaressment to the college than the badly dressed engineering students streaming in and out of the campus doors every morning. But of course, everybody knows this.

The icing on the proverbial cack here is the fact that, before even sifting through the cretinous garbage inside (except of course for the music section, as Vinny and I have written for it, saving grace and whatnot), one must first face down the cover. Offensive as the basic templated set out and tabloid fonts are, what most brings a tear to the eye and an upsurge to the gullet, is the godawful images of too many drunk medics in school uniform quoffing snakebite (does anyone outside of the first year even drink this?) and generally looking rowdy, obviously either at Phase (eurgh) or Walkabout (euuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurgh), which always seem to grace the cover. Must this be the face of our college tome? Whose fucking ridiculous idea is it to put this on the front of it? Who is this appealing to, aside from other drunk medics, who still consider a school disco night (replete with thos appalling dots on the cheek which all the most loathsome pencil on) a legitimate form of entertainment? It's a disgrace. (Ammendment) As anecdotal evidence of the preposterousness of the whole thing, when i returned to the heady nightlife of a Southampton University student 2 years after i left, i was reminded why i initiated my departure. Standing on a table at one particular dive of an establishment (Jesters, obviously), i saw an overweight, badly dressed student chugging from a jug of snakebite, simultaneously keeping one hand shoved firmly down his pants. I dont mean to make too scathing a comparison, but the individuals on the cover of Roar are, i fear, only one uncropped picture away from this kind of behaviour. But i digress.

The humanities department has some of the finest looking young people in London in its ranks. This should be made use of. Likewise the fact that the outside of the Maughan fucking owns now that the scaffolding is off. How can the good students of the Strand maintain a straight face and an ounce of dignity when this is how they are being represented at a base aestetic level? Im sick of it.