[1349] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Porter)
Thu Aug 29 22:48:39 2002
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 22:09:34 -0400
From: Christopher Porter <cporter@MIT.EDU>
To: MIT-Talk@MIT.EDU
How did the freshman apathy article get on the front page of The Tech? I=
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The Tech sucks, but this is one of the worst articles I have read. It wi=
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probably be used next year to justify the removal of all rush events. Th=
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are no hard numbers in the article; such things as =93_some_ residents of=
dorms=85=94=20
and =93_A lot_ of freshmen don=92t seem to be wanting to leave even their=
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and =93_a lot_ of people want to stay where they are=94 permeate the arti=
cle. God=20
forbid the author ask the housing office for solid numbers or question th=
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Assignment Chairs from each dorm. Instead, as is standard practice with =
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Tech, an editorial based on zero facts managed to find its placed onto th=
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front page.
-Someone who won't be here next yer when all rush events are made illegal
Chris Porter
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