Kudos to Michael Cox for articulating the silent majority's slant on the editorial section. The insipid whimpering of a relentless lunatic fringe has turned The Chronicle into a liberal rag. Throughout the year we have endured such whinings as "Coach K doesn't respect me," "Koreans don't eat dogs," "there are no women in student government," "the hardware store stopped to verify my check because I'm not a white male," "oppressed speed bumps make offensive metaphors," "there ain't no intellectualism on this har campus," "fraternities are the root of all evil," "diversity over ability should be paramount in tenure decisions," "Harris Berenson's humor is merely a vain and transparent mask of his vulgar sexism" and blah, blah, blah.
Don't we have better things to do . . . like . . . I don't know . . . study? Obviously not, because Monday, someone will surely respond to this statement with sharp retort. It will read something like this:
"Barker certainly does not speak for the `silent majority.' Contrary to what he might have you believe, Duke is not permeated by insensitive, racist, sexist individuals like himself. My heart truly goes out to him and to those whom he speaks for. It is tragic that such a hardened soul must traverse life from the outside looking in."
Tune in tomorrow.
Quint Barker
Fuqua '94
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