GentleCougarBoarders,

It has come to my attention that UTPA sucks at this voting game. Even the dean of students thinks we are Yale University. For the first few days they were actually using a script they stole from us. And, it is a matter of reality, CB's off-hand pinky could crush these PanAmTexans back into the obscurity they came from. But the reality here is stark in contrast to what CB nation knows: that we have yet to lift that proverbial pinky finger and assure our weekend reverts to normalcy. We have yet to unite as the quorum of CB.

I need not remind you that we did not get here by accident. In 1564 Cortez stormed the Aztec empire for gold and Spanish conquest. Shortly after arrival there were many in his company, mainly from boredom, who thought they could take the ships and sail back to the Mother Land for some R&R. Cortez promptly burned the ships in the cove--preventing even the possibility of Spanish Retreat from the new world. They were to conquer or die trying. They were to live and tell the tales of conquest, or be burned to some heathen Gods on this strange and exotic land. They were to live as heroes to a generation and explorers to the unkown or they were to spill their blood on foreign soils. There were no other options.

Today your options are similar, if not exactly the same. We cannot retreat as there is no happiness in failure. You cannot go home until you have conquered. You cannot allow another to Jimmer a Poll against the Jimmer's homeland. Yet many of you stand by idly...thinking others will pick up the slack.

Good Cougarboarders, today I am asking you to burn your ships. Light them afire with the same passion that drove your MLM downline. For 30 minutes between 10pm and 10:30pm we lift the proverbial pinky finger of CB and make the air smell of glue.

See you there. Bring your shizzle. Set your Pandora. Get the script. Burn the Ships.