Word: salients
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Some mornings, as I sit in the dining hall gobbling my grits and cheese and dropping chunks on whatever campus publication is spread before me, I encounter some things to make my gorge rise. Last week’s Salient offered up some choice bits for those of us who thrill to have our sensibilities so viscerally offended. For a conservative publication run by two members of what is “supposed to be the more prudent, discreet sex” (I quote its publisher, Mary C. Cardinale ’02-’03), it is absolutely...
...Return to Modesty), and I look around the dining hall to see others with their jaws agape, gasping for breath and possibly drooling because of a publication produced with shameless gusto by women who love to shock and provoke. There must be a thousand grit-stained copies of the Salient quickening pulses and/or churning stomachs in the Harvard dining halls. We read on out of the same “morbid fascination” with which Cardinale claims to watch “Joe Millionaire”—not because the arguments are compelling or even...
...outdated and oppressive. The major difference is that Harvard students have trouble finding productive outlets (beyond their T1 Internet cable) to channel these counter-cultural instincts. nd embrace a counter-cultural ethos. However, Harvard students seem to have trouble fulfilling this desire for free love. Everyone outside the Salient Editorial board is perfectly willing to transgress natural laws, but the problem is we can’t find anyone to transgress them with. Again, we recognize these sexual conventions are arbitrary social constructions, but there’s just no time to find that perfect someone to slouch towards Gomorrah...
What Eckert and Woodruff leave us with is an appropriate, salient message in this time of impending war. To paraphrase Ulysses’ intense iteration in the haunting final trio of the show, “For every Hero who comes home, a thousand more die in vain...
...attacked me in the Salient also said the worst thing about blocking is the possibility of living in Mather. He lives in Mather now, so that’s justice enough...