Editor,

After reading Mr. Cyrus Dioun’s article "The One And Only Good Reason To Go To CMC," we realized just how wrong the stereotype of the pompous, condescending Pomona student is. It was so magnanimous of Mr. Dioun to grace this side of 6th Street with his weighty intellect and witty charm. Such displays of humility and tolerance towards those inferior to oneself should serve as an example to others.

Where shall we begin in our hopeless effort to examine Mr. Dioun’s prose and its lasting effect on us? If only we attended Pomona College, perhaps then we would be better equipped for this task! Alas, we do not, but must nevertheless attempt to express our thoughts, however shallow.

We were intimidated by Mr. Dioun’s stark perceptive ability in realizing that all other CMC events are nothing more than "Natty Ice, pork rinds and sexual harassment." We suppose that, as CMC students, we are so used to this level of barbarity that we were blind to the wonderful array of high-society affairs so easily available to us at Pomona College. It is remarkable how Pomona maintains such standards, when separated from CMC — a cesspit of testosterone — by little more than a slender avenue. We realized that Pomona College is, indeed, a bright, shining college on a hill that CMC would do well to pitifully emulate.

Furthermore, we used to think that students from Harvey Mudd, Scripps and Pitzer Colleges were important members of the Five-College Community. But since reading Mr. Dioun’s article, which stated that they were "probably talking about something [at the Athenaeum], but it probably wasn’t important," we’ve realized that they are no more relevant than we CMCers. Their highest ambition, like ours, can be nothing more than to transfer to Pomona, where we might then be of such gravitas as Mr. Dioun.

When we first came to CMC, we were told by our savage, loincloth-adorned predecessors that Pomona College was full of snippy, Ivy-League rejects who excelled only in flagrant displays of arrogance towards their peers. Since having the pleasure of basking in the radiant glory of the Pomona student body, we question whether it is possible for any so-called "elite" college or university to do less than prostrate itself before any applicant who now attends Pomona College. It is so presumptuous of Harvard to refer to itself as "The Pomona College of the East."

Jackass.

Worshipfully yours,

Apollo Morgan, CMC ‘04

Tom Meyer, CMC ‘03