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E-PrinceIf Amory Blaine in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “This Side of Paradise” was right, that “the sentimental person thinks things will last” while “the romantic person has a desperate confidence that they won’t,” then May is a romanticizing month ...(back to the article)
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I - perhaps in a state of sentimental foolishness - was genuinely enjoying this column until...
"But despite the terrible dullness of the town of Princeton and of this University, opinion writing at the ‘Prince’ remains a worthwhile goal — if only to make immediate the problems waiting just beyond FitzRandolph Gate. Their immediacy is perhaps best summed up by Douglas Adams, author of 'The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,' [AH: quotation marks for a book? C'mon son!] who observed in 1998 that 'We all know that at some point in the future the universe will come to an end and, at some other point, considerably in advance from that but still not immediately pressing, the sun will explode. We feel there’s plenty of time to worry about that,' he continued, 'but on the other hand that’s a very dangerous thing to say.'"
Oh, Charlie, how typically arrogant but no less jejune! The "problems" of this world are not immediately outside of and distinct from Princeton. That is not to say that your writing about them ever made them immediate to us (although, to be fair, your writing did indeed illustrate this world's problems quite well). Yet you've still failed to actually articulate the problem.
Why?
It's because you are the problem.
Goodbye, Charlie. This is my last post ever on your last article ever. I've enjoyed reading your pieces over the past 4 years - thanks a lot for them.
To the younger ones - even though I will be walking out the gate with Charlie on 6/5, I am glad that you will still be able to read pieces of this caliber thanks to Susannah Sharpless '15. Read them, ponder, and enjoy....sooner than you know it, you will be reading your last column and walking out the gate as well...
Charlie, it's been a pleasure reading four great years of writing - these pages will be less interesting without you, though hopefully some new columnists will pick up where you've left off.
And thanks for all the fish.
THE END OF AN ERA
A FUCKING ERA
Charles, over the past four years, you have consistently written some of my favorite pieces. Congratulations on your tenure as a columnist at the Prince.
grade deflation has been a pr disaster with respect to whiny students and their parents, only. to employers like me, it was fine. i feel better about student gpas from the P now. dont presume you can whine about it to employers. we dont buy it.
One of the best CM columns I've ever read.