If anyone wants a cheap piece-of-shit digital camera that takes either dark or blue photos, let me know, because I just got me a NEW DIGITAL CAMERA that does not suck. Now my European vacation will be captured in beautiful digital images and posted to my flickr website for all to see. Zing! I am spending way too much money! I must remind myself that I am to be unemployed in one year's time and that I was planning on not getting another job right away. Zounds.
I'd like to thank Swilkes for simultaneously taking me on a trip down memory lane AND reminding me that I am turning into an old, centrist fart by forwarding me snippets from the Wesleyan newspaper. Apparently a gaggle of outraged privileged young people trapped the university's president in his office for four hours while intimidating him with their "list of demands," which include "gender-neutral dorms" (a concept I don't quite understand at a coed school with coed dorms and coed bathrooms), the selling out of the campus radio station to NPR (I support the students on this one--college radio rules), and other sundry things that have turned campus activism into a shameful joke. I was particularly appalled that members of this faction took to interrupting classes to announce that they were sitting in and trapping Bennet in his office. That is incredibly disrespectful to faculty and students who are THERE TO LEARN.
The common rallying cry is that their voices are "silenced," when it seems that trapping a man in his office for four hours while yelling demands at the door and not letting him come out is silencing another's voice. Of course, all extremism comes with hypocrisy. Perhaps they were taking a cue from our current administration?
Oh, college. The world is so much bigger and when you're out in it, you feel so much smaller. You go from ruling a small fiefdom to counting paper clips for some moron just so you can afford to eat. I miss college so much and yet I find myself repelled by UT's undergrads and their carefree, youthful lifestyle. I especially am repelled by the ones who wear shorts and flipflops on cold days.
Posted by Zerd at December 18, 2004 09:04 PM