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Dartboard took it upon itself to unearth the true motivation for this proposal, and we think we've hit on it. Under the guise of restricting student-professor relationships, Yale is waging another battle against the dangerous foe of all good colleges: grade inflation. Think about it--how many professors are going to give their boyfriends or girlfriends the bad grades they might otherwise deserve? Probably not many, especially not if they're getting good... well, never mind...
Imagine a foe more detestable than Yale, more imperious than the Yankees, more dominant than the Canadiens, and you will have the Prep. In each of my first three years of high school, St. John's steamrollered us. In my junior year, St. John's eschewed running out the clock and tacked on another touchdown instead. It wasn't pretty...
...children a year, to "protect" a relatively small number of Americans serving in Korea? Why are we spending millions of dollars on military strategists and state-of-the-art hardware if our people can't come up with anything better than exploding land mines that blindly injure friend and foe alike? MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER Nashville, Tenn...
Yeah, but not in Sam's case--unless you thought of him as a sort of Charles Ives, drawing on the vernacular only to subvert it with a big, blatting off-key note. Like the brave soldier who spreads his battlefield picnic on a fallen foe's body; the beautiful blond whose wig falls off in a fight to reveal a perfectly bald pate; the western hero who coolly plugs his lover when the bad guy tries to use her as a shield in a gun fight. Sam didn't strain for these bold, indelible moments. They just came naturally...
...focus for the Crimson now turns to this weekend as it faces bitter foe Brown in Providence, Rhode Island. This rivalry goes back to the freshman year of the class of 1998, when they beat the Bears to win the Ivy Title...