President Bennet’s assistants cringed when he stormed out of his office Monday afternoon. Midge followed on his heels, crying that the South would rise again. "He mumbled something about ‘Project Runway," said Doris Shorthand, an administrative assistant. "Then he crushed his pet bat Patton with his bare hands."
I’ve always admired your chutzpah, and never more than now. Mere weeks after John Leo’s US NEWS column pried the lid off that can of worms mislabeled ’diversity,’ you proceeded to dust off the china, polish the silver, and serve up another heaping helping of same. I speak of a letter you recently mailed to the staff, the letter in which you “strongly encourage” each and all to attend a mandatory diversity workshop.
I, too, went to the experimental music concert Rob Cohen commented on in the last Argus. (Wespeak, April 30) I agree completely with Cohen’s assessment of the first composition. It was self-indulgent and lacked aesthetic sense. After the first five minutes of dropping marbles, I wondered whether it was actually a behavioral psychology experiment being performed on the audience.
As these next few weeks progress, there are a series of lasts that will come and go, never again to return. Some are little ones… last class of the semester, last paper of the year, last drunken hookup of the night. Others are a little more monumental… the last time you sleep in your awesome room, the last time you wake up to your roomie’s last drunken hookup, the last weeks you get to tell people that you are in college.
Like every year, we picked some random categories, nominated some folks, and arbitrarily selected winners, whether they were nominated or not. Roll out the red carpet.
I was pretty sickened reading the latest installment in Martin Benjamin’s condescending, bigoted series of wespeaks. For those not familiar with Mr. Benjamin’s views on current affairs at Wes, I offer up some quotes from his past writings.
I would like to clarify a few things for Anda Greeney ("Motives for free speech?" 4/20/04), Martin Benjamin (’57 "Letter to Goldstein" 4/20/04), and other readers: