Well, it’s me, Eric Hiatt again. You know who I am. I am that “uniformed” guy who “writes for attention” along with my colleague Timo Seppalainen.

Since we’re such buddies, he may teach me how to pronounce his last name someday because, as of now, I haven’t got a clue.

And alas! Though I have an honorable military discharge and, given 10 minutes to zero an M-16, I could easily kill someone from 900 feet away, I will “only fight for America on the day America becomes perfect in its honor and morals.”

What good is someone who will “do nothing to improve America but complain?”

Sure, I’ve spent years of my life reading about the public education systems of world in hopes that I could better the ones here in America.

And sure, I’ve also read a lot about cognitive psychology in hopes to understand what might work best for our children.

I even tried being an elementary education major until I realized I could do more good elsewhere.

Hell, I even plan on trying to write some of my own math texts for children, but damn if all I do is “throw a tantrum.”

With “arguments based on bullheaded assumptions and false stories,” what was I doing even writing in the first place?

I wrote the way I did because I thought there were more people on this campus like Dr. Seppalainen, Emily Woline, and Kevin Sullivan.

These are people who know what I’m talking about because they know what goes on in the world. I am sure I could convince you that the media is really very censored, but I would need at least twenty pages and two days of uninterrupted research to construct my argument.

The same goes for the issues surrounding the military’s behavior.

Instead, I wrote an emotional article expressing frustrations over things I’ve spent years of my life looking at in hopes of reaching someone who understood me.

By the looks of what is in the paper, very few people are looking at the world now. Kosovo and “ethnic cleansing?”

I suspected that this was B.S. months ago because I was trying to make sense of it.

It appears that I was correct based on information that’s being released now. How many of you bothered to do research? I want to leave the red-blooded patriots who wrote in screaming at me some advice.

When someone writes something, look at what they say, not at what YOU THINK they say.

Also, even if the content is unsupported, do not assume it to be false.

In short, reread Emily Woline’s article over and over again because she knows exactly what she’s talking about.You red-bloods also seem to have quite a passion.

Imagine what that energy could do if it was directed at some goal. Think about it.

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Eric Hiatt

Junior

Mathematics and music