BULLBLOG BLACKLIST Listen closely and you’ll hear them: the faint whispers of the annual housing frenzy that will soon rear its ugly, I-will-kill-my-best-friend-for-a-single head. On campus or off, this time of year gets tricky. Now comes the hard part, guys. We’re past the days when not having a syllabus or any of the books is okay by anyone’s standards, which means it’s nose to the grindstone for a while longer.
The cause couldn’t be better, and we hoped that everyone donated blood this past Thursday. But the email still felt a little creepy to us.
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True life: It’s actually the semester
Or whatever. We can imagine that not being very fun. Note, however, that the end of sorority rush is decidedly NOT on the Blacklist.
The first whispers of housing drama Mary Miller asking for our blood
True Love Week We understand the sentiment, but we’re just not really down with the idea of totally separating this point of view from the school-wide conversation.
Not getting into Theta
Harvey Mansfield’s talk on “The Nature of Manliness”
Mysterious “defiance” Ex-Comm cases
Apparently 11 cases concerning “defiance” went before Ex-Comm this year. What does this mean?? Spooky.
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3 a.m. cover letter writing
Hosted by the William F. Buckley, Jr. Program. From Mansfield’s book, Manliness: “To resist rape a woman needs more than martial arts and more than the police; she needs a certain ladylike modesty enabling her to take offense at unwanted encroachment” (144).
Feb Club FOMO
Woohoo seniors! We’re so happy for you that you get to party all the time with your stickers and your dues and your different locations and your lack of any work. We’re so happy. Really.
This is the time of year when everyone and her mom is frantically applying to anything and everything that could remotely be considered an internship. And if you happen to have gotten some interview that involves someone “flying you” somewhere, just don’t tell us about it.
The Yale Herald (Feb. 3, 2012)
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