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...colorful magic marker and construction paper poster advertising FAST brightens one otherwise dull corner of the room...
...However, one first-year has taken up another noble pursuit. Jonathan M. Guberman '03 of Canaday F searches for sins. It started about one month before winter break, when Guberman was crossing the hall to hang out with the guys. He noticed the word "greed" written in faint orange marker on the doorjamb. He asked his neighbors about the word, but they knew nothing beyond that it had been there for a while. Guberman thought nothing of it and continued with his normal daily activities...
Four months later, on Christmas Eve, the detectives repeated their stakeout, this time hiding a bug in a fake tombstone fashioned by a movie special-effects company. But the ruse failed when reporters and cameramen overran the site, and a youngster discovered the bogus marker, rocking it back and forth and loudly announcing, "This is made of wood...
...velocity. I sometimes wonder what the furious acceleration in the rate of change in our lives does to the faculty of memory and to the moral meanings we are capable of absorbing from our experience. It is now exactly a year since Colombine (so long ago), which shares the marker with Oklahoma City, ten thousand news cycles gone...
...Humphreys surveys his space, with its bookshelves packed with sheet music, signs handwritten in marker and boxes-upon-boxes in the back room, the phone rings...