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shhh harvard yale harvard yale shhhhh Harvard Yale Harvard Yale, Yale Harvard! shhhHsHHhh HarvarD HARVARD YALE YALE HARVARD YALE HARVARD YALE HARRRRRVVVAAAArRRRDDD YAAALLLLLLEEE! @!!!!!!!! Whoa yeahhh the game

What could all this mean? Could this all be the result of a single game of football? Okay: So I will be here at harvard more or less in the center of three days of wild mayham that is called The Game. Will all of you that will be here please let me know so that we can get together and be happy? Or else I will stop loving you.

=Adam

message from SATAN!!!! or a republican...

Hiya. This seems like awefully big type. oh well, might be the computer. The world is not going to end in the next four years. If it does, you can kill me.

wow

it's been a really long time. like really really. (haha, +memory reels to time when we said 'really' really really too much+). penn is great. like really really great.

i have been thinking ponderously about you all and not a day goes by during which i don't think or tell someone about my friend with whom i attended 'a summer program at cornell' and of whom i was just reminded because something familiar is going on.

all i can say about college life is that i am intrigued by my classes. all except, that is, for spanish grammar class .. ughh (+whole body shivery convulsion+). the homework isn't keeping me very busy (fortunately) and compared to the engineering, nursing and (oh the) business students, i feel like you average doos for nothing liberal arts student who does absolutely nothing but read. haha.

but i am doing more than reading. i have attended a multitude of lectures. on the penn campus there is a new thing we should be aware about each week. islam awareness week. unity week. anti-poverty awareness week. ahh. it's really quite fun. but in addition i have balanced my academic activities with 'fun' ones (i say this word in the most stereotypic of usages). from frat parties to the symphony (i say beethoven's seventh last week, the last movement was the best in my opinion) to dance clubs to jsut relaxing with my friends (which doesnt happen too often because they are always too 'busy').

other than that, the food just sucks. at first there was little vegetarian selection. but then fall break hit and every iten on the menu that weekend was vegetarian. i was spoiled by this and now i am dying because penn's idea of guaranteeing a vegetarian meal at each dining hall for each dining hour is by providing vegan chili and rice. fine ... but vegan chili all the time. damn mandatory meal plans!

well, i have to be getting to my tiny dorm room if i want to make it in before the outside door locks. please know that i still love you all (even though the event of my life about which i posted on this thing was my little sisters devoration by my pet t-rex, silly-bob). adios. christopher.

so i am now, officially, an angry, bitter, liberal. and the question now becomes this: what do i do? the democratic party has consistantly failed me. they have an opportunity now, with daschle gone, to choose a decisive, devisive, firm leader who can stand up to bush and deal with the real issues of the environment, civil rights, sustainability, and globalization. but they probably won't.

i think it comes back to the campus. we need a new students for a democratic society. (for those of you who don't know about SDS, read this). we need a resurgence of angry, idealistic liberalism on college campuses. the base is there, i think: at cornell, for example, we have angry liberal groups about many issues, but no unifying umbrella organization. that is what we need, and we need it as soon as possible.

opinions? what do you think i can do. i won't take "nothing" for an answer.

-- alex

damn it.

will the democratic party still exist as we know it four years from now? my guess is no. as the republican party gains uncontested power, led by bush it will become the neo-conservative party.

to combat that and to take the middle ground for electability, the democrats will become the conservative party of america.

but for now the democrats are a party without power, and president bush will not feel restricted by reelection moderation, probably leading to a highly ideological, imperialist, religious, and violent next four years.

by far the most frightening aspect of this election is that the separation of church and state is eroding in america. and this is obviously a deeper issue than simply the president -- the real problem is that the voters seem to want it that way.

i feel helpless because there is really nothing i can do.