Who Knew A Rubber Chicken Could Bite?

Editor’s note: We received about a dozen calls from students and adults in response to Our Generation’s stories on the Rubber Chicken game between Lewis and Clark and Ferris. The resounding complaint was that they took a negative approach to a positive event.

Our intent was humor, not harm. Some people didn’t take them that way. Here’s a letter from some LC students who put it best.

Dear Our Generation, While reading the Our Generation section this Wednesday (Jan. 18), we were extremely disappointed and disillusioned to find some unacceptably negative articles written by both Lewis & Clark and Ferris students discussing the Rubber Chicken Competition.

Originally, this event was intended to be a positive experience and, indeed, for many years it has existed as a source of entertainment and a lesson in good sportsmanship and school spirit. However, the Our Generation articles portray a certain negativity which we do not believe represents the way students feel.

The Our Generation section made a serious mistake by encouraging schools to attack each other’s school spirit, honesty and the gallant efforts of the cheerleaders, drill team members and basketball players. Describing the Rubber Chicken game as a “symbol … of dominance” only adds to the inappropriate slant of the articles.

The supposed “few good-natured jabs” seemed more like a fistfight. Ben Maixner Spencer Piston Brian Quirk Lewis and Clark