Word: flips
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Holworthy resident Evan N. Rachlin ‘05 was just a normal first-year on Tuesday, Sept. 18. To be more specific, he was one in a rush to get to his 1 p. m. physics section. Wearing a pair of flip-flops, Evan grabbed his blue North Face backpack with his left hand as he was going out the door. One of the waist strap buckles got stuck on his left big toe, and when he swung the backpack up to his shoulder, it “completely ripped off the left side of my toenail and, like...
...just from the left side but everywhere,” Evan adds. Section wasn’t going to happen, so Evan went back to his room and tried to shift the toenail back in place. But it just slid around, and he covered his foot and flip-flops in blood. So he went into the shower to wash it off and fainted from loss of blood...
...dragged himself to UHS, “who were wonderful.” A surgeon removed the toenail and wrapped the toe up in gauze. For a while Evan had to wear handmade stylish footgear on his left foot—he attached a duct tape strap to his flip-flops because the layers of gauze made his foot too big to fit in anything else. Now he can wear normal shoes and play soccer using his left foot. The toenail is a little stub about a quarter of an inch wide, and “should be grown...
...Many people wiser than we have said that among the casualties of last week’s attack is our media’s flip cynicism, its ironic detachment from genuine feeling. Well, if irony isn’t dead then it’s gravely wounded,” they wrote. “How can we be ironic when our fire squad in Park Slope, Brooklyn, has lost half its members?” Colton and Aboud asked for feedback from readers and the response was tremendous. “We got hundreds and hundreds of e-mails...
...flip side, the number of times that I’ve heard the description, “the band that will save rock and roll” from record companies and magazines in the past year is quickly approaching infinity, and translates into a hollow gimmick to sell more records—platitudes are often the worst kind of compliment. But to reinforce the pre-existing hype, nostalgia has been hanging oppressively in air for a band whose musical roots include punk and brit-pop. Such a noble rock lineage evokes memories of music’s halcyon days where...