Your faith in the glorious tradition of snack is touching. You believe so wholeheartedly in it that its mere one-day-per-week location change has made you “very, very angry and even ashamed.” Strong words! Furthermore, you charge that “Galen Benshoof ’06, Buster Zalkind ’07, and Chris Thompson ’06 have taken it upon themselves to use their positions as elected ASPC Senators for the purposes of getting Dean of Student Ann Quinley to move one night of Snack to South Campus.” Wow! Is that really surprising to you, given that you published candidate statements of each of these Senators in which they each pledge to bring snack to Frank once per week?

Far more upsetting than your infantile accusations about “lack of respect for tradition” (and your complaints on behalf of the Frary workers may well have validity, I’m not in a position to know) is the Letters to the Editor section. Maybe I didn’t get them. If they’re all completely joking, I’m issuing a pre-emptive apology. If they were serious, however, I am nauseated.

Four letters in a row screaming with fury about a location change for snack. SNACK. Has everyone forgotten how shocking it was as an incoming student to learn that the school provides a snack to its students every school night? Or was that available at your high school? I had no idea the extent to which Pomona students have taken their privileges for granted. Do they understand that people are starving to DEATH all over the world? And here they are whining about snack! When is the last time we had four consecutive letters to the editor about a current political issue?

I propose, then, that we move snack every night of the week to Sierra Leone. I propose this at the risk of incurring my roommate’s wrath (his addiction to nachos would likely lead him to follow snack there). Sierra Leone’s life expectancy is 39 years, and I think it goes without saying that they need a snack more than we do. That would establish a valuable tradition, and messing with it would justify the kind of reaction that this change didn’t. Please, Pomona students, demonstrate to a relatively new freshman that you aren’t ignorant, insular, and completely without perspective. You’re frightening me.

Reed Schuler ‘07