Word: dumbness
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...Dumb things just came up way too often," Gabay says. "And no one really cared...
...Stupid. They're Stupid People at Harvard (SPAH), the group of first-years who organized at the beginning of the year. Granted, we've all felt a little bit dumb at some point during our academic careers. But a whole group of people willing to admit dumbness? Are they somehow stupider than we are? How about now, November--no doubt they've been bombarded by horrendous problem sets and expos drafts. How's their self-esteem doing now? We were curious...
...supporters were appalled. "It's disheartening that a large number of fairly intelligent people could do such a dumb thing," lamented Nobel- prizewinning physicist Leon Lederman. His frustration is understandable. Since the 1930s, physicists have been using accelerators to smash atoms together and analyze the debris, with an impressive result: the discovery that matter in all its complex forms seems to be made up of just a few simple particles operating under a handful of basic forces. But this so-called Standard Model is a puzzle that's not quite complete, and finding the last pieces would take something like...
...plainly, the premise of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy (and of this editorial) is ill-conceived--you might say dumb. Support for "don't ask, don't tell" demonstrates a wishy-washy perspective...
...These kids are dumb. "Neither the leadership nor the individuals had reason to know the University's Confiscation of Publications on Campus Policy," says Arnold's report. Maybe so, but I think sitting up nights planning to trash newspapers would qualify as a "reason to know" the University's thoughts on the subject. And if they thought that Penn was going to encourage such an activity, the investigation should be widened to include the Office of Admissions...