AQUILA 2019/20 EDITORS’ LETTER REBELLION: What is worth rebelling for? What is rebellion? Is it a violent riot or is it xxxxxxx a non-violent protest for change? Is it both? xxxxxxxxxxxx Is it something completely different? This is not an editors’ letter to fill you in about our progress xxxxx over the year, how we came up with the theme, how far we’ve come or how we’ve worked together as a team. No one cares. xxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx No one reads it. We don’t want to write it. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx So we won’t. So what will we write about? Maybe a hate letter about all the xxxxxxx trifle annoyances that we wished we said something against. Maybe a sentimental xxxxxxxxxxxxx reminiscent piece about all the change that has occurred during our time at Pipers. xxxxx Or, the importance of challenging the status quo. xxxxxxxxxxxxxx We thought about censorship - how people dictate what we learn, what we read and to some extent even how we think. This is where we thought about the importance of a voice, of research, of challenging what you originally think.
But this isn’t about what we thought, or what we wanted. It’s about what the xxxxxx students at Pipers wanted. It’s about standing up for what’s right. It’s about challenging xxxxxxxxxx what is expected; this magazine is about asking why. This magazine is a challenge. And no one had more of a challenge than our Design Editor. Not only did we want to xxxxxxxxxxxxx go against the status quo, but the other three editors also had no idea about what xxxx could and could not work. So, as with everything we have done, she took great care and used her amazing skills to bring to xxxxxxxxxx life every idea we had, however 5
