The whole chalking debate isn’t going anywhere. The university and the students want completely different things. The university, lorded by the Shadowy Board of Mysterious Rich Trustees, wants our campus to look sparkly and dignified and pristine, kind of like Vassar (I’ve never been to Williams or Amherst, but I assume they’re similar), so that rich alumni from the 1957 football team can confidently feel like they came from a dignified old-money-New-England institution, and so rich kids will come here and boost the endowment. The students want to make things colorful and have fun. These two objectives do not overlap and are irreconcilable. Thus, there is no point to continuing the “debate” on chalking. The only thing to do is go and chalk and make this campus colorful and fun. I, for one, am just going to write out Disney lyrics all the time.
Also, Director of Media Relations David Pesci is getting on my nerves.
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