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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (62940)	10/18/2002 2:06:13 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

"I spend a fair amount of time at being a rhetorician, actually" "Since I consider only a fraction of my time to be focused on rhetoric..." ____________________________ You can appreciate, I suppose, that it was somewhat unclear to me... BTW...how much money is "enough"...<ggg>??

To: Neocon who wrote (62940)	10/18/2002 11:06:47 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Have you seen the latest issue of The College? Mine came today, but your's has probably arrived since it had less distance to travel. Talks about the famous (infamous!) prank of 1964, the one that started it all. Gets it about right, with a few minor exceptions. First, it wasn't just seniors who were involved; a few of we underclassmen were also recruited for muscle. Even with a bunch of people it took quite awhile. (For those who don't know what I'm talking about, the first college prank was in 1964, and the seniors and their assistants took every single chair out from the college classrooms -- and all the classrooms except the auditorium and the labs were, and still are, equipped entirely with rush seated armchairs and heavy wooden tables) out of every classroom, some three stories up in McDowell Hall, and carried them across campus and stored them in the crawl space under Mellon Hall. Meanwhile, an elaborate scheme was devised to keep the campus guards occupied elsewhere on campus while team after team of students carried chairs.) To say that President Weigel was not amused is an understatement. He got up on a table in the coffee shop and delcared that if the chairs were not returned immediately, every senior would be expelled. For quality of prank, I don't think it's ever been bettered, though that may be nostalgia speaking.