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[pmcd9]

I just hope that it wins Achewood some fans and doesn't drive any potential new ones away.

~Paul

[V-Adore]

The ameteurishness of the journalism, the strange mix of attempted erudition and sophomoric inside jokes -- this is powerfully undergraduate.

This is very true.  As a Brown graduate, I would like to defend this piece/guy, but I can't.  It is really very bad, and as much as I loved my college, the piece is sadly indicative of much of what I had to endure in many college classes.  

I thought I would never again have to hear about something being "privileged" (i.e. "Calvin and Hobbes privileged the individual subject's imagination in a celebration of both natural and psychological worlds...").  But I guess not.

For the record, the Independent is published by both students at Brown and the Rhode Island School of Design.  So I would like to partially blame RISD, but this guy goes to Brown so to hell with it all.  At least I hope it got him a good grade when he used it in his comparative literature class.

See, I really wasn't thinking specifically in a "Brown" context. I was thinking of a lot of the undergraduate "journalism" that comes out of my future alma mater (Williams), which tends towards this exact same tone. (My favorite recently was the editorial about how we shouldn't argue about on-campus issues because children are starving in India, and the fact that the author at least thought about the starving children made him more morally right than those of us concerned mostly about our housing. Hoo-wee.)

[Silverberg]

Ew, you go to Williams? Wesleyan spits at you!

In any case, that article has made me take a careful look at my own writing and tone down the affectation. I... I don't want to be that guy.

[V-Adore]

Ew, you go to Williams? Wesleyan spits at you!

Whatever you say, Little Third. Whatever you say.

ANYWAY: if this proves anything, it's that all "elite" liberal-arts colleges are probably about equally sophomoric.

[PinkStainlessTail]

Ew, you go to Williams? Wesleyan spits at you!

Whatever you say, Little Third. Whatever you say.

Big daddy Amherst sits in the corner and says nothing. But he's got a little smile on his face as he watches the little ones play. Oh yes he does.

[arkabee]

Ew, you go to Williams? Wesleyan spits at you!

Whatever you say, Little Third. Whatever you say.

Big daddy Amherst sits in the corner and says nothing. But he's got a little smile on his face as he watches the little ones play. Oh yes he does.

dude, i liked your signature better in nu-welsh.

and, isn't arguing which massachusett's college is better sort of like someone from TN saying "hey, are school systems rank higher in a national list than Arkansas!".

i mean, have some dignity people.


ps, yes, the typo is ironic because i caught it BEFORE i pressed submit.  otherwise it's retarded and proves a point.

[V-Adore]

There, thread split. Now we can get back on the topic of the obvious moral inferiority of the Smallpox Hamsters, as well as their many, many other faults.

[Beatrice]

ooh, i started.  and then it sucked and i stopped.

[jough]

Anyone who uses the word "episteme" without irony cannot be trusted.