Amphitheatre rebuttal
By Senior Class Officers
Issue date: 3/27/08 Section: Opinion
Mr. Thompson, from whence springs such vitriol?
You accuse us of being out of touch with the class, yet you fail to attend class meetings or contribute, either through e-mail or direct contact, to the representative sample from which we work. How can we know what you want when we hear nothing from you until the plan is already in motion?
You attack our proposal yet offer no alternative. You claim pragmatism trumps aestheticism - we have made no claim to the contrary, but pray tell what pragmatic concerns are being sacrificed in our pursuit of "idealistic tripe"?
Mr. Thompson, what do you want? We wish to represent the desires of the class of 2008; the lone objection to our proposal has come from you - we have heard nothing from your legion of co-objectors.
If you and so many others have reservations or a better idea, why do you not address us directly instead of launching cowardly attacks on our character and leadership ability in the paper?
Though we are pleased we possess the obduracy to take your breath away, we wish we could apply our influence to champion a project all can enthusiastically support. Idealism aside, it is clear that no project will please all, but for those with objections, the reasonable solution is to attend class meetings and speak to their representatives.
Of course, if you would rather limit your input to sarcastic, turgid letters, you are most welcome.
You accuse us of being out of touch with the class, yet you fail to attend class meetings or contribute, either through e-mail or direct contact, to the representative sample from which we work. How can we know what you want when we hear nothing from you until the plan is already in motion?
You attack our proposal yet offer no alternative. You claim pragmatism trumps aestheticism - we have made no claim to the contrary, but pray tell what pragmatic concerns are being sacrificed in our pursuit of "idealistic tripe"?
Mr. Thompson, what do you want? We wish to represent the desires of the class of 2008; the lone objection to our proposal has come from you - we have heard nothing from your legion of co-objectors.
If you and so many others have reservations or a better idea, why do you not address us directly instead of launching cowardly attacks on our character and leadership ability in the paper?
Though we are pleased we possess the obduracy to take your breath away, we wish we could apply our influence to champion a project all can enthusiastically support. Idealism aside, it is clear that no project will please all, but for those with objections, the reasonable solution is to attend class meetings and speak to their representatives.
Of course, if you would rather limit your input to sarcastic, turgid letters, you are most welcome.
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Hugh
posted 3/30/08 @ 1:03 PM EST
Senior Class Officers, from whence springs such pretentiousness? You speak as one who has gold for feces!
Red
posted 4/05/08 @ 4:37 PM EST
Class Officers,
I would rather my Senior Gift be used to fix the heating system in upper East McIntyre, than be thrown away on yet another college building project. (Continued…)
Tim
posted 4/06/08 @ 3:43 AM EST
Meetings? We had meetings to discuss how to spend $15M and I didn't get to go. Oh hamburgers.
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