Riley Lewis: CMC's one future student?For the environmentalist, ending fall break would probably reduce the college’s carbon footprint as many students would travel back home one less time.Let's extend that to its logical conclusion, Charlie.
While we're at it and to keep our school green, green, green, let's ban all international students and East Coast students from campus. We just can't have them pumping all that carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
In fact, anyone that doesn't bike here is suspect. No students, no students at all! (Except Riley Lewis CMC '11, who can bike here from his house in Claremont.)
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Please tell me he gave other less anemic reasons!
You can find my response here:
http://claremontportside.com/blog/?p=1244
Aly Stark lives even closer to CMC than Riley does.
Charles, dear, you're really just so hostile. I'm perpetually impressed by your demagogic talents, particularly how in this case a suggestion to rearrange break days somehow becomes a threat to the liberty of CMC students. Decrying such menaces to our freedom while simultaneously dismissing Sprague as "incoherent" is no mean feat. I'm sure you'll go far in life and the Republican Party, and I look forward to the day when I can toss popcorn at your face on the television and chuckle at your diatribes.
Reductio ad absurdum is certainly useful, but when it's the only thing you can muster to merely tangentially respond to a level-headed discussion, one might be mislead into thinking that such pithy and useless responses are the extent of your logical reasoning. Rather than reflecting upon your next episode of incendiary rhetoric, you might do better to remember that immodica ira creat insaniam.
From France, With Love,
Sara J. Roberson
Stay tuned for my article on the totalitarian impulses of the sustainability folks, with special reference to Dartmouth (see, e.g., http://www.dartmouth.edu/~sustain/whatcan/).
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