Peace of mind and contentment of the spirit and soul is seemingly unattainable to many, yet being happy rests in the heart and on the lips of the voiceless masses. A friend who read my words in the DE on Feb. 17 wanted to know the inner meaning of my first letter without the symbols, similes or signs of poetic language. Basically, he said When you give it to me, Brother Enoch, give it to me raw.

You want it raw? Are students in school to receive degrees in knowledge and in the ability to think for themselves, or are students here to memorize scholars and theories and get degrees in quotology? Should students fight the falsehood that is seen in the curriculum, or should students recite falsehood back to get an A, learn nothing and leave school with a B.S. degree? (B.S. is exactly what it is.)

Are students in school to learn the best way to roll a blunt, how to pass out from drinking without getting their stomachs pumped, or how to perform as many sexual positions with as many people as possible? I know, everyone is not doing this, but many are.

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All we really want is to be at peacewe want to be happy. Is happiness found in that never-ending blunt, which frees you for a period of time but punks out on you and leaves you lower than you were from the start? Is it worth the pain that comes in the end of sexual escapades with people you do not love?

Well, what is the alternative to the so-called college life of promiscuity, drunkenness, wild partying, fighting, foolishness and ignorance in the name of youthful exuberance?

Clean righteous living, based upon principles of freedom, justice, equality and truth that are applied in our everyday lives. This bears witness to the great men and women of the creator, who were sent to different people in different parts of the world at different times, giving the one uniting principal which is the submitting of our wills to do what is right.