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With graduation set at 8 a.m., this year's graduates have to be ready and on campus by 7:15 a.m. That's way too early. College students sleep through their 8 a.m. classes; how do you expect us to wake up and look presentable by that time? Having graduation at 8 a.m. also makes it inconve . t, s , - I-,- day you ii.,, , 7 , You can finally kiss the goodbye and say hello to being a adult in the , ' , "' ) ' noth- - "'ale graduate. ' t - - - '' ' , ' ' - ,' ' , ; t t,, , - t 010 - ,, t , ,,,r- -, r-- BY MARKEE HECKENLIABLE ,, ale; tra) the ' ' ,.'; kr t , Ii ,.- - - 'ir - i , ' t i,, ' ' ,. 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Yes, the main character Simon is gay, and so is his love interest, but the film doesn't preach to us about gay rights and how the Send letters to the editor to DixieSundixie.edu. Letters to the editor are accepted and may be published in the newspaper andor dixiesunnews.com. The guidelines fot letters are as follows: Submissions shduld be no longer than 250 words and must be Writers must include name, phone number and email address. Students should also include year in school, hometown and well-writte- n. .. ,' , I ' ,i P. :' , ''' r. 0 , 1 ' 1 0 , '- ' 't l ? ; ' Iom z c I o t, ', . ' 1 i I .) ' A , , , 2 t, , !, 1 .4. ' T '.,'' ' -- I , , . 2 - , i r 4, ... A . ..... , 4 ,- ..., , 1 , .0,-- -, , , , I thought it was clever EVERYONE DESERVES A GREAT LOVE STORY published. Letters should be submit- - ip1 of Simon's. , - ... , - and "Blue" are sending and uses that knowledge to get Simon to set him up with Abby, who is a close friend 1 I i .... 1 Simon, played by Nick Robinson and Leah, played by Katherine Langford have a heart-to-hea- rt in Simon's bedroom in the movie "Love, Simon." "Love, Simon" is in theaters now. t '' 1 .... , , , , 1' ', I - ..., ,... H , t , ' I , ,,, - r- - - . t 0o cx -- 1 i 1 n i t ' 1 ',.. .1 Letters consisting of inaccurate, libelous or highly offensive content will not be . . ! :, grammar. . k providing encouragement and support for one another, they fall in love. The problem is they do not know each other's true identity because they are talking on a public internet forum and are using different names so nobody discovers their secret. To make matters more complicated, a classmate of Simon's named Martin, discovers the niessages Simon ,f - ---- VOgroaqwwwwitaVa, , LOVE, major. Letters are subject to editing for length, style and ted to dixiesundixie.edu in the body of the email, not an attachment. Letters become property of Dixie Sun News and may be published in any format. Dixie Sun News encourages a lively discussion on its website among its readers. Dixie Sun News does not edit comments. However, an editor will not post any comments that are libelous co.AP011. LGBTQ community should be treated or their fight for equal treatment. The film is about a young man who is gay but has not yet come out to his family or his friends and finds someone else going through the same struggle as him. In JONN to have Simon attempt to bring his friend Abby and Martin together. It led to some interesting and funny conundrums for both Simon and Martin, though ultimately, Simon's inability to see what his friend's real feelings and interests were including his best friend Leah's feelings for him leads to disaster. Although I found the plot to be engaging and smart, seeing how much Simon struggled to come to terms with having to tell the people he has known all his life that he is gay, opened my eyes to a point of view I will never experience. There is a scene that really grabbed my attention and helped me to have an inkling of what it is like to come out to your loved ones. In that scene, Simon is ruminating over the whole "coming out of the closet" idea to Blue and asks why being straight isn't the thing that one needs to come out about. What follows is a hilarious montage Simon's fantasy of his friends corning out to their parents as being straight and of course, the parents all respond horribly. It provided a paradigm shift of sorts and had me thinking about if being straight was not the normal thing, would I have had the experience that so many gay, lesbian and transgender teenagers have had? I immediately thought of my brother, who is gay, and how he must have struggled through high school know ing that there was something different about him but wasn't sure what it was, I thought about how he must have felt the day he told me and the rest of our family that he is gay, and how hard that must havë been for him and for Simon in the film too. You will have to go see the film to know what becomes of Simon and his love interest and how things turn out with his family and friends. It would be unfair to the film to spoil it. "Love, Simon" is the kind of love story that is needed because it gives all who see it a point of view they wouli not otherwise experience. It is a film that's message is not about the rest of society coming to terms with homosexuality, but about understanding that being gay doesn't change the fact that everyone loves the same. 1 it - |