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NOLA: an exercise in lunacy

The city is under sea level, meaning that if another hurricane/earthquake/engineering failure/high sea level or combination thereof comes again, the city will be under water É again. Instead of rebuilding the city at its same location, a prudent person embused with foresight would build somewhere else, relocating the city away from the dual dangers of storm surges and the like. Why would I spend billions of dollars to build the city at the same dangerous location? I could use it to build it somewhere else. But then again, inherent in all of us is nostalgia: the reluctance to give up the past, especially if that past is awesome. It is human nature to want to hold on to the past, to cling to what once was. Human nature also neglects reality. New Orleans will be under water someday again, and people will wonder why our generation refused to listen and relocate the city.

-Trymore Magomana '07

Daring to live loud and proud

How dare you mock me? My body is mine, and how I choose to display it is my own god-given right. I will conform neither to your puritan ideals of dress, nor your hypocritical and bookish sense of fashion propriety. I am a beautiful snowflake, and I will remain beautiful in whatever I choose for my studying apparel-nothing you can say or do will ever take that away from me. I will strut my stuff however and wherever I choose; I will love my body; I will refute the matriarchy; I will bask in the glory of Burling's bibliographies, Bibles and bestsellers in all the comfort and support of my black, bitty, bodacious, bulge-bearing boxer-briefs. This is Pantsless Wednesday.

-Jan Koszewski '08

The plight of the Lilluputians

Let's talk about the salad bar and the wok station and how they're made for people with really long arms. If I want any items in the mythical Last Row At The Salad Bar, I basically have to launch my entire torso into the vegetables. It's really awkward to balance on one foot, duck under the sneeze guard and shove yourself in there far enough to reach the elusive yummies. You really have to, like, stretch hard to grasp the items with the tongs, and often you don't get very many, so you have to do it many times, and then people get all impatient and you know they're thinking, "Oh God, not another small one."

It's tough, living in this world made for tall people.

-Caitlin Carmody '08

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