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random rants

Students speak about what's on their minds. In 142 words or less, and you're invited! If you have a rant, e-mail it to rathodja@grinnell.edu. After all, complaining in a public forum is always more fun that doing it alone.

Handicap inaccessible

Today I gave a tour to a high school junior restricted to a wheelchair and was extremely embarrassed for Grinnell. Nearly half of the tour had to be altered because this school's buildings are not compliant for handicapped students. As much as I admired this student's enthusiasm and strength throughout the visit, I was silently hoping that she would go to a school more willing to welcome handicapped students.

How hypocritical that we pride ourselves on being an accepting community while leaving a percentage of the population entirely in the dark. Why are we so obsessed with being understanding about others' ideals and rights while we will not even allow some people to enter into our buildings?

-Sarah Pierce '08

Fashionably functional

Re: "Fashion at Grinnell."

First, I have to say: what a stupid article.

Now that's out of the way, I'll say this:

When I choose to wear a t-shirt and soccer shorts to class, I'm not making a statement. I'm not conforming to an anti-conformist movement just to wag my dick in the faces of those who want to dress up.

You know why I wear what I do? It's comfortable and it allows my testicles to breathe. While you're walking around in your super-tight-yet-super-trendy khaki pants, slowly forcing your nuts back into your body with every step, I'm walking around carefree in my soccer shorts, happy as a clam. Later in life, when I have healthy, voluminous ejaculations and you're lucky to get a drop or two, we can have this fashion discussion again.

-Julian Peters '06

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