With all the hype over the recent Young Republicans’ Club and Young Democrats’ Club popping on up the AHS campus, a few students have since taken the initiative to start up a club that does not necessarily fall within those boundaries. Two AHS students who prefer not to reveal their names due to potential ostracism have brought into existence the Young Communists Club.

“Before this club, I never felt accepted by anyone in the school. I decided to start this club mainly so that I would get into college, but also because it is the only environment where I feel as if I can truly be myself,” one founder of the club said.

The founder also went on to say, “the most competitive university will consider me a diversity candidate.”

This club has since recruited around seventy members, including the entire cast of “Singing in the Rain”, and the girl’s hockey team. They promote the idea of sharing fellowship, equality, and expressing oneself through folk dancing and song. They even resorted to tactics such as “borrowing” non-member’s lunches to form a food cooperative so all comrades get equal amounts of food for lunch. So far, the number of members in this club is more than the Young Republicans and the Young Democrats combined.

“I wouldn’t say it was as much evil than it was frickin genius. If they stole my lunch, I was, like, obviously going to get it back or else I would get hungry; however, the only way I could get my lunch back is if I signed up for the club, so I did. Besides, folk dancing is really cool,” club member said.

The club meets every Wednesday from 8:05 to 1:55, as the material they go over in meetings, they believe, is more valuable than what they would be learning in school on a shortened day. At every meeting, the members recite the Communist Manifesto, quiz each other on the writings of Karl Marx and Chairman Mao, and practice interpretive Russian and North Korean folk dances. The boys are all required to cut their hair like Kim Jong-un (business on the top, party on the sides), and the girls all have to wear army green dresses with grey aprons so they look like equals. Some of the girls have even cut their hair to look like Kim Jong-un too. The club is also planting an organic garden on the AHS campus to stock their food cooperative, and is assisting the administration in fixing the machinery used on campus.

It doesn’t stop there. The Young Communists are taking a trip to North Korea at the end of April. During the meetings each week, the group has been planning their trip, along with practicing their dance moves and researching some of their favorite Communist role models.

“I have been researching Kim ll-sung for three months now. He’s so cool,” another club member said.

To ensure that each club member can go on the trip and to make it as affordable as possible, the group will be putting on a traditional North Korean folk dancing marathon next Wednesday in the Skier Dome for 24 hours as a way of fundraising. The entrance fee will be thirty dollars a person. The fee also includes a bowl of hot Korean rice porridge called Congee.

“The entrance fee might seem a little pricey at first, but this dance will blow your mind,” other club founder said.

While in North Korea, the students will visit factories, hang out at cooperatives, assemble nuclear arms, and even perform their folk dance in front of the Kim Jong-un government. Most importantly, they will form relationships that will last a lifetime.

Ever realized that your political views don’t necessarily match up with the Republicans or Democrats? Miss an entire day of school and join the communists for a fun-filled meeting in room 1300, or just sign up to go to North Korea. You might even get to play pick-up basketball with Kim Jong-un. Who knows, you may decide to stay.