Current Student Addresses Alumni Commenters

To the Editors:

I'm a sophomore at Trinity, and frankly, I don't see why alumni feel the need to butt into our affairs so much.

Why is so much space of the Tripod given to these old Bantams who cannot go gently into that good night? Come on! Don't you people have your own lives to lead? It really makes me wonder what life will be like after Trinity if so many alumni spend so much time and effort writing to a college paper.

Seriously! And why are the Editors of the Tripod printing an article written by some geriatric Norman Rockwell doctor who can't understand satire? Dr. Shadwell, with all due respect, don't you have an early-bird special to catch? Or re-runs of Matlock to watch on A&E?

And what about that article written by some recent alumna who is mad that people don't "Know [their] Laureates"? Ms. Gordon, you know who didn't win the Nobel Peace Prize? Gandhi. And the Mahatma was so hungry for peace that he didn't eat for like ten years because India didn't have any. Case closed.

Don't get me wrong. Alumni, we, the current student body at Trinity, love you. We appreciate your continued support, your generous donations, and your truly memorable mid-life crises that inevitably occur during Homecoming Weekend. (That last one was a joke! See how we're buddy-buddy!)

But, please, I beg you: exercise a little restraint. Think before you write. Know that whatever your opinion may be, it will be savaged by a smarmy, snot-nosed, little 19-year-old like me. Don't put yourself through it. Just know that we try our damnedest to put out a good paper. Sometimes it works; sometimes it doesn't.

But we learn more by making mistakes than by seeing your nagging in black-and-white.

Sincerely,

Charlie Kinbote '12