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...Ellen DeGeneres would be taking the stage of Tercentary Theater in June—she will actually speak at the Law School’s Commencement, not the College’s—I have put much thought into who this year’s highly anticipated speaker ought...
...three respective campaigns, voters who find all of the candidates for each position uninspiring are left out in the cold with respect to choice: Their only option is not to cast a ballot and to forfeit their right to have a say. In any democratic system, there ought to be a clear difference between an informed abstention and an outright decision to stay away from the polls. The two reflect very different attitudes toward voting and ought to send two very different messages—something for which the council’s present electoral modus operandi fails to provide...
...enforcing regulations unfairly belittles an organization that is simply doing exactly what the Undergraduate Council created it to do. Its members work long hours for—and this particularly applies to its chair and its non-Undergraduate Council members—little thanks and even less recognition. They ought be praised for their efforts instead of condemned for not overstepping their authority...
...ought to have known it wouldn’t. I am old enough to know that many things we dread turn out to be less important than we had anticipated, and old enough to know that we are all blessed with an extraordinary gift for adaptation. But I do not know whether to find this reminder on the ease of selling out—even in this small way—heartening or discouraging. It suggests, I think, that the other kinds of selling out we have dreaded—getting a corporate job, abandoning our elliptical late-night conversations...
Five points against the Dutchmen ought to do it, though...