Word: fearfulness
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Going out four, five times a week, the students, most in their twenties, don’t dare skip a social function for fear of missing out—or “FOMO,” (pronounced FOH-MOE), as they...
Over the course of the next several weeks, several of my peers went through the same process, including the managing editor, the associate managing editors, who run the news board, and the leaders of the election process on the news board. The uncertainty and fear of Ad-Board retribution weighed heavy on our minds for weeks...
...random, unexpected dealing out of punishment by the Ad Board and the deans breeds fear and, ultimately, lack of respect. If giving President Drew G. Faust a fake check for $1 billion—which we did during a previous Grand Elections and she said she found amusing—is allowable but presenting the registrar’s office with a Hallmark card is an offense worthy of months of investigation, there is no real way to know, as a student, where lines are drawn. Thus we are faced with two options: accept the risk...
...fear of becoming a “Lost Generation” may not be unreasonable. But we are not lost, not exactly. We simply don’t know where we’re going yet. And that’s just fine. We’d do well to remember that not all those who wander are lost...
...fear that perhaps, as more ghosts crowd in, the definition of my experience of Herr Widener will dissolve. But then maybe I catch a whiff of a smell that calls back those aged books in the stacks, and I remember the touch of their pages and the rustle of papers in Loker and the echo that my boots made walking over the uncarpeted marble floors, and it all feels much closer...