Counselors Feel Threatened When Fish Camp Places More Focus on the Freshmen
At an informational earlier this semester, Fish Camp revealed its new seventh value: diversity. This decision was made to help future attendees feel more comfortable with the camp’s environment. However, some counselors are afraid this will make Fish Camp about the freshmen instead of themselves.
Fish Camp has received criticism in the past for the organization’s lack of camp diversity. After some introspection, Fish Camp staff decided a change was necessary. “We took a good look at our organization and saw we need to focus on the freshmen more,” a member of Fish Camp’s director staff said.
The Mugdown interviewed an anonymous Fish Camp chair for their opinion on the subject: “This will forever change how camp is run. I chose my counselors to make the best ACP [After Camp Policy] party possible, but now it looks like I needed counselors who care about the freshmen and continuity.”
The change has received positive feedback from most future Aggies. “They are so brave,” said Casey Becker, a high school senior from Laredo. “Fish Camp chose to break from A&M traditions not only by having more than six values, but by appreciating diversity.” Others are less impressed. “They’re just jumping on the bandwagon,” a high schooler from Dallas said. “Everyone else already claims to value diversity.”
Though the change has upset counselors, Fish Camp received more applications than ever.
“My parents booked our trip to Europe last summer around work weekends,” said second-year counselor William Mixon. “With all the sacrifices we make, camp is about us. We can’t let one new value change that.”
Counselors have decided to take action against this decision. A protest formed Tuesday outside of the Fish Camp Office. Protesters sat for 72 hours straight, eating only cheese balls and drinking ice berry blue. “Our culture is being threatened,” a protester said. “Next, they won’t allow ACPs!”
Fish Camp’s success will likely affect Impact Retreat’s official decision regarding which denominations of Christians are allowed to serve as counselors.
—Anime Sciences
Treading silently through the Kleberg Center amongst the yeeyees and horse girls, we find Anime Sciences making his way to class with his head bowed. An inattentive freshmen accidentally walks into him, and suddenly the crowded hallway goes hush. A mind-bendingly long series of close-ups, confused grunts, and angry growls signals the triggering of Anime Sciences’ wrath as he unsheathes his katana from its holster. Uttering a rapid flurry of insults in English that somehow don’t match the movement of his lips, he challenges the freshman to either flee or face certain death. The fish scampers off. Order is restored in West Campus.