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...student’!” [INSERT HIGH FIVE]/“You are surprisingly attractive. I will politely yield”.)If the TF angrily demands you sit down, remark, “TF equals teaching fellow? More like (tip-top friend/total fellator/titanic fellator/toothless fellator/tempestuous frigate/depressed and purposeless man in his early 30s).”Your TF will undoubtedly ask you to write your name on a 3x5 index card, but spice it up by (writing your name backwards and then directing him to a mirror/drawing a treasure map of the campus revealing the location where...

Author: By Daniel K Bilotti and Vincent M Chiappini, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Please, Write Your Own Damn Column | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

...passionate, purposeless quarreling continues while the underlying issues go unaddressed. It goes to show that, when it comes down to it, it’s not overcoming problems that counts—it’s the opportunity to bemoan them to anyone who’ll listen. Thus, we should see this moment as a chance for change. Can’t we at least begin complaining about complaining about complaining...

Author: By Sahand Moarefy | Title: The Passion of Idiots | 3/10/2008 | See Source »

...Somewhere, behind all the bluster, lays the real reason for this purposeless debate. It’s not about academic definitions or historical precedents; ultimately, it’s about preserving American sensibilities. By accepting a change in terminology, news organizations accept not only the failure of the U.S. invasion, but also the unsettling responsibilities and blame associated with that failure. Evidently, that’s too raw for editorial boards of major media outlets, and so they seek solace in the safety of semantics...

Author: By Bede A. Moore | Title: The Luxury of Distance | 12/5/2006 | See Source »

...lose sleep over the students’ struggle to again admission to Oxbridge, as he considers testing (and education itself) an enemy of true education. As the hatefully pragmatic principal describes, Hector’s contribution to the students’ characters is “unquantifiable, and thus purposeless in education...

Author: By Pierpaolo Barbieri, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Education of The Ruling Class | 6/30/2006 | See Source »

...cause? Come to the Harvard Right to Life meeting at so-and-so time.” They seek to cause anger, not excitement. In doing so, they reveal their antagonistic purpose, implicitly admitting that their primary function is to irritate pro-choice supporters on campus. This kind of purposeless aggression, as far as I am concerned, is fine in the realm of the Yard. Really, that is a very public space and I have seen some rather odd things advertised out there. But within the Houses, this is a hurtful and unproductive way of expressing opinions. Abortion...

Author: By Alexandra N. Atiya, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Right To Reason | 3/10/2006 | See Source »

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