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The Onion, Double Order!
The Onion pokes fun at Hamilton this week, with a brief reference to Amherst. I personally was distracted by the brief shot of a scheduled performance by Mindy Kaling, but that is neither here nor there. (You don’t need Mindy, Hamilton, you already have Bon Jovi–kind of). If you were offended by The Onion’s erroneous [...]
The CrushList App, or, Love in a Land of Awkwardness
If you’re a person, you’ve probably at some point worried that a crush did not reciprocate your feelings. If you’re most people, you’ve probably at some point failed to act on those feelings out of a fear of rejection. And maybe, just maybe, your fear was unwarranted, and you missed out on something great. Well, [...]
An Accurate Response Paper
I just want to start out by saying, thanks for assigning us a response paper this week. I haven’t done the readings since the third week of the semester, and completing this assignment reminded me why I signed up for this course in the first place. Of course, my ability to tie in these readings [...]
Best of The ‘Cac on College Confidential
I read it, you read it, we all read it. We’ve been meaning to do a post like this for a while, although I have to say I totally underestimated how wrong it would feel to lurk College Confidential. The only thing I can compare it to is watching someone try and get their finger [...]
Amherst Students Standing For Freedom (For a Really, Really Long Time)
On Tuesday, March 12th, Amherst students started noticing one or two people standing in front of Valentine Dining Hall out in the cold, pouring rain, holding up signs saying: “27 hours/27 million lives.” They were there at breakfast, then at lunch, then again at dinner. What were these students doing? They were standing for freedom. [...]
Premature reflections on seniority
They keep telling us we’re graduating. At Tufts, the senior class celebrated “76 Days till Graduation” on Sunday (the actual event was supposed to be “100 Days till Graduation,” which makes much more sense, but unfortunately was scheduled the weekend of the nor’easter and, thus, had to be re-scheduled as the less graceful sounding ceremony). [...]
Senior Cocks Has Fallen
You may remember the furor sparked by the crazy drug-addled, booze-infused dinosaur-riding disaster that was this year’s Senior Cocktails event on Feb. 15. Wesleyan students had to endure a week of unflattering media reports–our favorite of which came courtesy of The Atlantic Wire here–until finally learning their fate earlier today via an e-mail from the [...]
A Queer Commentary on Consent
TRIGGER WARNING: This content deals with the topic of sexual assault and may be triggering to some people. As a queer man, I want to speak for myself and engage other queer persons, especially queer men with two points of thought on consent. First, consider the violence we do to our female friends’ bodies. Consider how [...]
