<p>Chicago</a> Latke-Hamantash Debate - YouTube</p>
<p>For those that are unfamiliar with this UChicacago tradition, enjoy.</p>
<p>[AEPi</a> Live](<a href=“http://aepi.uchicago.edu/live]AEPi”>http://aepi.uchicago.edu/live)</p>
<p>this is the last one which was put on by AEPi</p>
<p>Just the sort of pretentious, faux-intellectual “tradition” that sends me running from the building. It’s not provocative. It’s not witty. It’s just stupid. </p>
<p>If UChicago-types think of this as the sort of thing that merits its own annual rite, I’m glad to know about it now…before my parents shell out that $75 application fee.</p>
<p>I haven’t watched this one, but the talks I have seen or read are pretty funny. You don’t have to love that kind of humor, but if it really sends you running from the building, then it’s probably a good idea for you not to apply. There are lots and lots of schools that cater to people with your tastes; Chicago just isn’t one of them.</p>
<p>This debate is not unique to UChicago. It’s done everywhere now. Unless you think 30+ colleges including Harvard and Princeton are pretentious too… </p>
<p>But that leaves you with so few top colleges to choose from…</p>
<p>Don’t see a “Latke-Hamentash debate” thread over on the Harvard or Princeton boards. If Harvard does host such a knee-slapper, it doesn’t appear to be as central to its identity–ie, Harvard doesn’t invoke the Latke-Hanentasch debate in its admissions materials (as does UChicago).</p>
<p>I don’t object to satirical debates over the relative merits of ethnic snack foods, per se. I just cringe when the “humor” is so self-conscious. After watching these vids, I wonder whether UChicago has a high percentage of mediocre minds amongst its faculty. Its LHD propaganda leaves me with a feeling that the place is overrated.</p>
<p>New member ■■■■■? Or old member-with-a-UChicago-axe-to-grind with yet another new user name?</p>
<p>Someone who thinks Latke-Hamantash is dumb must be a ■■■■■? The cow is that sacred?</p>
<p>From where I sit, LHD is held up by UChicago-types as a kind of totem. Of what, I’m not exactly sure. Maybe “who-knows-what-those-wacky-geniuses-will-do-next.” Whatever it is, the exertion makes me wince, that’s all.</p>
<p>I’d bet on ■■■■■, too. Not because of the opinion expressed on the LH debate, but because none of the posts come across as something a high school junior write.</p>
<p>Lousy: All schools have traditions which appear (to some) to be dumb. Surely you know that.</p>
<p>motherbear332, thanks for the compliment!!! (I really mean that!)</p>
<p>More power to you UChicago!</p>
<p>Agreed Mutti2012 and motherbear332 - user is a week old and been trolling on other threads too…perhaps it’s time to post directions back to the bridge.</p>