They just don't get it
Ryan Thompson
Special to the Collegian
Issue date: 3/13/08 Section: Opinion
While I should not be shocked by the reactions of the senior class officers to my editorial two weeks ago in The Collegian, their detachment from the rest of the student body and specifically the senior class can best be described as breathtaking.
In their editorial last week, which I had a peer describe as "a desperate attempt to salvage their self-respect," their very arguments prove my view that they simply do not understand the concerns of the average student. Instead of giving a single practical justification for the amphitheater, they refer to a bunch of aesthetic platitudes that are foreign to the souls of pragmatists including me.
While aesthetic beauty has its merits, more immediate and pragmatic concerns must always take precedence in the real world. In this respect as representatives of the senior class they failed to represent their constituents by ignoring their concerns and substituting them with their own idealistic tripe that defiles anything resembling common sense.
In their editorial last week, which I had a peer describe as "a desperate attempt to salvage their self-respect," their very arguments prove my view that they simply do not understand the concerns of the average student. Instead of giving a single practical justification for the amphitheater, they refer to a bunch of aesthetic platitudes that are foreign to the souls of pragmatists including me.
While aesthetic beauty has its merits, more immediate and pragmatic concerns must always take precedence in the real world. In this respect as representatives of the senior class they failed to represent their constituents by ignoring their concerns and substituting them with their own idealistic tripe that defiles anything resembling common sense.
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KG
posted 3/14/08 @ 11:10 AM EST
"[M]ore immediate and pragmatic concerns must always take precedence in the real world."
It appears that Mr. Thompson has spent years in the classrooms at Hillsdale but failed to understand, much less appreciate, the liberal arts. (Continued…)
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