Word: likes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said before, I don't mean to sound like an old fuddy duddy who'd rather walk than take a motor car or who'd rather write long, languishing letters than call (although at least the latter is true). I just think we've got to realize that some people like L.P.'s even if they're turning into musical neanderthals. C.D. players are kind of like car phones or answering machines with remote call-in--sure they're an improvement, an advance, a fine addition to any upwardly mobile life. But they're heartless. They force us to evolve...
...pretty soon, we're all going to need C.D. players because record companies like Warner Brothers and EMI are beginning to phase out the titles available...
...message is the medium, rock 'n roll will become slick, polished and unspirited like the compact discs that play it. It's already happening. I immediately associate the word C.D. with artists like Dire Straits, Steve Winwood and anything on the Windham Hill label--music that sells albums but doesn't inspire much personal devotion because any emotion it peddles is clearly mass manufactured...
...first issue that I would like to take up is letting people into entryways. Mr. Hsia states that "previously reported intruders have been better dressed than most of us." In the same breath, he states that "most of us already rely on our good sense when we let people into the dorms." He also brings up last October's incident in Hollis, in which a well dressed intruder was let into the entryway, and then entered an unlocked student room...
...carelessness, I feel confident that this incident has shaken the system sufficiently as to eradicate it with no help from the students. It is an unfortunate commentary that something like this must happen before anything is done...