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...Star Trek" episode, we would visit the world of Adolenscia. Beaming onto the planet in a fog of cannabis, we would stumble over mountains of discarded jeans, Beatles records and love beads. After five minutes of soaking in the atmosphere, one of our number, probably a faceless engineer of one sort or another, would be seized by a group of crazed teenagers while we looked at our feet. Later, while rescuing the poor engineer, we would learn that teenagers have no regard for justice, other people's feelings or the right way of greeting strangers. Beaming back to the ship...
...least my stomach is not alone in being mad at 12:30 a.m.; as I am kicked out of the library, my mind joins in the anti-Harvard rage. And who wouldn't be irked? It's as if an evil, faceless Harvard administrator is waving to us as we leave Lamont, saying, "Ha ha ha! You' didn't get your work done, did you? Wel,l too bad! It's time to go! You're a night person. I hate night people. You should be asleep by now! Asleep! Now I'm going to lock...
...world, has only now begun to emerge from four years of stagnation. Yet despite all appearances of revolution, the regime remains the same in the eyes of most Japanese. The nation is ruled not by the parliament or the Prime Minister but rather by a force as faceless as ancient Emperors and as intractable as smog: Kasumigaseki, the district in Tokyo where government bureaucrats have their offices and from which they have colonized the rest of Japan...
With the start of the school year, we find ourselves amid a swarm of students in the depths of the Science Center or Sever Hall. No longer are we distinct individuals. Instead, suddenly we are all one mass of faceless creatures in whose direction professors direct their words. From the direction of the podium or even among the very mass, we blend. In short, we are anonymous...
While we as students argue against anonymity in classes, we also promote our privacy. That very anonymity that makes us faceless on the outside empowers us enormously. We can enter our observations into the CUE Guide as non-biased sources of information so that our responses on the back of the form guide other students. Nothing but our impressions of the class matter. Whether we rate the workload compared to our high school health class or organic chemistry doesn't matter. In short, we are only important in one dimension...