We saw roof workers putting the final touches on the new Tyler Hall roof and drainage at 6 a.m. In the wake of many political scandals, the biggest of which involved Monica Lewinsky and the most recent of which surrounds George W. Bush, the issue of morality has loomed large. Invariably, the American public becomes, en masse, the moral arbiter following an eruption of scandal. Ex-freshman reflects When I was a meager freshman, I remember asking upperclassmen I met what their Orientation was like. I am convinced that this memory lapse is for one reason.
Orientation is a miserable time.
I see addicts searching for a quick fix, and I am not excluding myself from this. 15 times a day. There is no doubt in my mind that we have become a culture addicted to having every possible convenience at our fingertips. Everything must be faster, more convenient, and it must require less thinking and less skill.