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...trying to convince anyone that life in the Midwest is better than on the coasts. Next year I’m just as likely to end up in Boston or San Francisco than back in Kansas. I just feel like it is a shame that supposedly wise people would hold such negative opinions of a place they have never been to and know little about. I can’t, however, totally condemn those who view the Midwest as a cultural latrine. It is merely a matter of ignorance breeding snobbish contempt. I can play the Robin Williams...
Despite the council’s wise ideological stance on this matter, the second operative part of the resolution, which establishes a process to refund student groups for lost posters, is procedurally infeasible and ineffective at promoting free speech. First, there is no way for clubs to verify the number of posters lost to vandalism. Second, even if a council committee could somehow discern legitimate claims from dubious ones, simply reimbursing recognized clubs will not alter the community’s feeling concerning the freedom of expression. The dilemma that makes this problem so urgent is not the fiscal loss...
When we aren’t giving one thing our best, it is the wise friend who recognizes the situation and steers us toward something more promising to excel at for a time. Harvard will still be there to return to. We are fortunate that our alma mater swears by us and not by a fixed calendar, thereby allowing us to complete our eight terms whenever we are ready. When we are ready, we of course deserve good advising; when we are not ready, it is not the advisor’s fault...
...pointed out to us that we were pretty much matched up with Brown since we each had nine finalists,” Stapleton said. “We had more people in the [consolation finals], but we were basically the aggressors. They were going into finals better off seeding-wise...
...just happy with the way the season went, team-wise and individually,” Wilkins said...