Breed Perfect Frosh, Terrorize Others

Jacob Sloane

It’s that time of year again, when the flowers start to bloom, the insects start to bite, and the prospies come.

There are about a zillion prospies here these days. Clearly, they will not all decide to come to Pomona, and this is a good thing. If they all came, the current housing shortage would be even worse, classes would be crowded, and so on. We must cull the herd.

Just about every one of these prospies has already been accepted here. If they like their visit, they will be in your dining hall and on your campus come September. [con't]

Posterity Has Always Ignored Both Genders

Frederick Sontag

About an equal number of men and women are consigned to the ash heap of history every day. On the other hand, the "slaughter bench" of history is sex-biased. Vastly more men than women have been and are brutally exterminated every hour. What we are talking about is the few, the very very few, who are salvaged from destruction and immortalized in some later activists’ reconstruction of fame. If women were not brutally killed in wars and skirmishes to the same extent, the same forces that protected them, e.g. motherhood, also made it impossible for more than a handful to get free of that burden to compete with men by exercising their talents other than the womb. [con't]

Campus Ignores Suffering and Embraces Heretics

David Park

As you’re reading this, I’m probably already dead. Killed. Murdered. I don’t mean a spiritual death or symbolic death or anything of that sort. I mean I’ve been shot by my "Gotcha" assassin.

This week this campus is a virtual inferno of mass hysteria. People running around with water guns, water grenades, water bottles–whatever it takes to win.

There’s nothing like a cool drenching in blistering weather to welcome you to summertime. It’s about time it stopped raining around here, and acted a little more like Southern California. [con't]

System Continues to Silence Campus Women

Chris Bissell

This week, a flier advertising the freshman beach trip featured a picture of a voluptuous woman in a bathing suit. The clear implication of the flier was that one of the reasons for going to the beach was to slaver over voluptuous women displaying their bodies.

The flier, purportedly produced for the benefit of the freshman class, was in effect directed at either queer females or heterosexual males, and I believe it is safe to say that heterosexual males were in reality the target of the flier. [con't]

Lasers for All, Says Congress

Amanda Baber

I forgot to mention this last month, but it seems the U.S. Senate just approved funding for a revamped version of former President Reagan’s much-maligned "Star Wars" initiative. Originally aimed at foiling Russian nuclear attacks via the deployment of some sort of laser-equipped satellite system, or possibly the Starship Enterprise, the Strategic Defense Initiative came under fire in the ’80s when commentators pointed out that Reagan was, as the New York Times editorial page put it, "totally wacko." [con't]