Two words encapsulate the only appropriate response to Daniel Young's whining ("Old Spice column trivial and irrelevant," Sept. 22) over the purported irrelevance of Scott Dimmich's column on Old Spice: lighten up.

Thankfully, the Daily Collegian is the newspaper that caters to a nationally prominent university and covers important issues like minimum wage increases in Pennsylvania and race relations on campus. But every now and again, it doesn't hurt to take a step back from the protesting, criticizing, etc. and just read a column written for the sake of writing.

If you're the type of person who looks for meaning in everything, I propose you look at Dimmich's column as a critique of how mainstream marketing efforts dupe people out of money for no observable benefit, since older products are just as reliable.

That analysis should give people some means of linking that column back to "a cause" of some sort. In the end, just appreciate that students take time to write columns; some columns' redeeming qualities exist solely in their writing.

If there's a particular article you'd rather not read because it doesn't fight for whales' rights or advance PETA's objectives, then don't read it. Or read it and whine, like Young, who doesn't accept writing for writing's sake.