LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Students must stop taking everything so seriously
To the Editor:This is the story of Brandeis on-campus life and quite frankly it's nothing short of pathetic. In the last issue of The Justice an article was published (Ilya Sobol's '08 Forum article, "In the eye of the typical college guy, it all boils down to sex") essentially giving an elaborate description of how the average college guy's night "wasn't worth it" if he didn't wake up in the morning next to that random girl. Quite frankly, it's a hilarious look into reality for quite a few guys between the arbitrary ages of say, 17 and 25.
Then again, it is somehow apparently degrading to women, though the joke is clearly on the men who are being portrayed as the Shallow Hal's or Wedding Crasher's of society-none-the-less by a fellow boy!
I must say, thank God I live off campus. I feel almost as if I was driven off because it is simply impossible to live in peace at Brandeis. Why, you ask? Well I'm here to tell you. It's simply because people have absolutely nothing better do to than sit around waiting for the next silly comment or Justice article to blow up at. I mean, come on, it's obviously all the girls who aren't getting laid that are offended, but they are clearly the ones who are too uptight to ever have fun regardless! Most guys are cracking up saying, "Well, it may be an exaggeration, but it's still pretty humorous to read."
Brandeis is a school of two very distinct types of people and what I'm about to say flies in the face of everything I've ever said about Brandeis before. Those two groups are the "Sheltered Prudes" and then we have the "Hippies." Sadly, in this most recent case of The Justice simply doing its job and printing a student written piece for the Forum I must side with the hippies, something I never ever do.
The moral of the story: Dudes, chill out. Go to Chums, have your pseudo-intellectual rants about how terrible the article was and go back to your lonely lives of making love to books. Sometimes that whole "tolerance and free speech" stuff we supposedly champion at Brandeis means hearing what you don't want to. Yah, you heard me and you read me-and you probably wish you hadn't by this point-but you did and now you've been tolerant. So shut up. C'est la vie.
-Jason D. Levine '06
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