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I attempted to speak to Nazi Girl today. She, I think, is a regional phenomenon. She walks around campus in a black coat, with a flag featuring two red and two blue squares and oversized sunglasses (even on this cloudy day) that make her look like a cross between a wasp and a police officer.

She is pledging a sorority. Though that experience is beyond your easy understanding, it is not as mysterious as you make it. Eventually, you will encounter the girls who always wear a Mickey Mouse glove and offer sorority members Jolly Ranchers every time they see them.

It beats what some sororities do -- in reality or only gossip.

I sent them edited rules for the Mid-Hudson Pagan Network and the unfortunately now defunct PURE, both of which have successful rules that went though a revising process over the course of several years.

Wait, why is PURE defunct? Explain these things!

The best I can reconcile -- not remember, but sew together -- is that all the people who kept it going graduated, but more the pity that those who remained lost it.

Swiss Miss provided that they had tried for SA funding but were turned down. I pointed out the M that the reason we were turned down was that the girl who went before the court to explain the group was not qualified, wore a heavy metal t-shirt, leather pants, and a skull bandana, and was likely dripping with pentacles.

You try to be dismissive, but this is no reason to discriminate against the club. PSU didn't keep the pressure on, but the school had no reason to deny the Pagans when they cultivated Jewish, Christian, Muslim, and Buddhist clubs.

One of the proposals concerned Robert Kennedy Jr. and his conservationist plan. PSU was ready to completely veto it because someone said, and I quote, "I hate the Kennedys. They suck."

Okay so. RFK Jr. is currently running for president as a Democrat -- though a tiny fraction of that party considers him viable. He is a conspiracy theorist bodybuilder who swears he isn't against vaccines, even though his platform is against them and claims they cripple children. His wife, Cheryl Hines, insisted attendees of a party get vaccinated against a global pandemic, which suggests RFK might only be playing a part to curry the gullible's favor.

Does that have any bearing on PSU supporting him here? No, but it's worth knowing. Even the worst person you can imagine -- and that is not RFK -- can have the occasional good point.

While I am blighting the president's crops anyway, it should be noted that she stated that she doesn't actually own any books on Paganism and has never really read one. So good that she is the one running the group.

Yeah, that's not a surprising stance. If you pressed her, I'm sure she would tell you she is a natural witch.

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Thomm Quackenbush is an author and teacher in the Hudson Valley. He has published four novels in his Night's Dream series (We Shadows, Danse Macabre, Artificial Gods, and Flies to Wanton Boys). He has sold jewelry in Victorian England, confused children as a mad scientist, filed away more books than anyone has ever read, and tried to inspire the learning disabled and gifted. He is capable of crossing one eye, raising one eyebrow, and once accidentally groped a ghost. When not writing, he can be found biking, hiking the Adirondacks, grazing on snacks at art openings, and keeping a straight face when listening to people tell him they are in touch with 164 species of interstellar beings. He likes when you comment.