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Peninsula last week had posted flyers advertising its introductory meeting for new members. On Thursday, posters imitating those flyers were found in the Yard and the Houses, according to Bradley E. Whitman '98, a member of the Peninsula Council, the magazine's top tier of editors...
...Whitman said that Peninsula members found the posters on Thursday, the same day that Undergraduate Council member Steven J. Mitby '99 found a hate letter outside the door of his Lowell House suite...
...argue that the "simple faith" of writer Randy Karger is impossible, when in this day and age of scientific discovery, belief is so nearly impossible as a matter of course. It is not his personal faith I attack, nor the "long and difficult" faith of his colleague Brad Whitman, but their public pronouncements of the character of faith in general...
...Whitman writes that for the man of faith, "no greater honor exists than for a man to die for his convictions." Several paragraphs later he sums up the nature of the cynic, who, without the aid of faith, is "reduced to a mere animal groping after the desires of the flesh." What we have here is animality versus spirituality. Whitman's reductionism is unfair to both faith and cynicism...
...might remember that Jesus was spirit made flesh, one might emphasize, contrary to Whitman, His incarnation over His sacrifice. To speak on Peninsula's own terms, one might advise Whitman that it is better to live a Christ-like life than to die for a cause. Religion is not nearly so far off from earthly cynicism as Whitman would have us believe...