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...woman student standing in front of the Lamont poetry board clicks her tongue disapprovingly. Shaking her head, she walks away, commenting, "harsh, harsh, harsh...
...talk to us, who are sparkling and different and bright. (The B's go to Radcliffe girls who memorize the text and quote it verbatim in perfectly hooped letters with cirlces over the i's.) Not, I remind you, necessarily to people who have locked themselves in Lamont for a week and seminared and outlined and underlined and typed their notes and argued out all of Leibniz's fallacies with their mothers. They often get A's too, but as Mr. Carswell observed, this takes too long. There are other ways...
...didn't really commit the AdBoardable offense of stealing books without borrowing them. I simply embarked on a small experiment last week. I checked the books out, concealed them on my person, and walked out with them. Twelve hefty books I heisted: two each from Lamont, Hilles, Widener, Langdell, Cabot and the Fogg Fine Arts libraries. No sweat...
...wrong. I am not blaming the book-checkers for their ineptitude. It would be impossible for the most diligent guard to check thoroughly the belongings and person of every student that exits the libraries. When classes let out in Lamont, more than 50 people leave the building in less than five minutes. Thoroughly checking a student would take two or three minutes at least--creating a huge traffic...
...other words, Plotz and others utilize the same rhetoric that they deride. By lumping students into a silent majority, they effectively silence that majority. The only people who are left with any real opinions at all are the "PC ideologues," the "oppressed conservatives" reading National Review in Lamont and campus critics such as David Plotz...