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Even more shocking are the growing questions surrounding Mather??€™s pretext for initiating aggression. Where is the evidence that Kirkland has the gong? At the outbreak of war, Mather pointed to circumstantial indicators including a UPS slip signed by a notable Kirkland resident, and let their hysterical rhetoric do the rest. But time has cast harsh doubt on that slip’s authenticity—indeed, some have even suggested that high-ranking officials of Mather??€™s House Committee altered the slip to implicate Kirkland...
These are serious charges, and their ultimate validity is yet to be determined. But still more uncertainty surrounds Mather??€™s motivations. It is well known that Adams had something resembling a gong in its dining hall, but no one knows whether it was more than a round, bronze symbol. The gong had not been heard to ring since Adams’ losing war with Pforzheimer House, now more than a decade in the past. Listen closely to the chatter in Mather??€™s dingy halls of power: those who once talked of earth-shaking malletted tones...
When war is acceptable, it is only as the endpoint of the collective judgment of a broad-based, trustworthy alliance of parties. Despite Mather??€™s claims to the contrary, this is sadly absent in the present conflict. Louie (of Louie’s) and three or four guys in a DeWolfe blocking group do not a coalition make...
...Morris—Mather??€™s HoCo secretary—glossed over what could be a potentially fatal rift in the alliance...
Exam period has dampened hostilities, as the combatants retire to study carrels like an army going into winter quarters, but Mather??€™s leaders—while refusing to reveal specifics—say that following intersession the battle will be rejoined...