<p>@circuitrider, you responded to a lengthy post of mine discussing larger themes with an alumni magazine piece about a science grant. This kind of weaselly tactic is how you do business. Why should I reward that with time or effort? </p>
<p>^Oh, please. You got bested at your own game. Youâre just a sore loser.</p>
<p>Youâre a puerile fool, honestly. âBested at [my] own gameâ? Insert a massive Lucille Bluth eyeroll here.</p>
<p>@wesleyan97: Since you seem to resist the corporatocracy, consider another verb for running an internet search engine.</p>
<p>@circuitrider: I like your posts. @wesleyan97 would be nothing without you.</p>
<p>Chase wrote in his book that you Wesleyan people have a tendency to disagree with each other. I think he was right.</p>
<p>Btw, the Preppy Handbook supposedly sells for $300 now. I bought a used copy a while back marked-DOWN from the $ 4.95 cover price. They could have done me a great favor, however, by not marking it down, in ink, on the book itself. </p>
<p>M-W accepts google as a verbâIâm cool with it. If everyone stopped using âgoogleâ as a generic trademark, it wouldnât loosen the grip of global corporate fascism a bit; that sort of superficial PC niggling over terminology distracts from the real problems. Sorry for the ad hominem, johnwesley/circuitrider. I donât respect your uncritical stance toward the school; but as a party-line apologist and purveyor of FYI knowledge you acquit yourself admirablyâwith the loyalty of an apparatchik and warm volubility of a Colonial Williamsburg tour guide. </p>
<p>@wesleyan97: I suggested you consider it, using your own judgment. I certainly wasnât correcting your grammar. I donât agree with that as being niggling â perhaps only so if I had decided on my own usage based upon the influence of a group . . . a âPCâ group, as it were. As far as i know, Iâm the only one who says ârun a search engine on.â</p>
<p>And in the undermine-hegemony-one-annoying-discourse-modification-at-a-time culture of Wesleyan you would find many sympathetic to that choice. I guess my ambitions for Wes are just thatâmy own. Still, the thought excites me of Wesleyan becoming the kind of institution that doesnât yet exist, one that unsparinglyâand without insular, Gayatri Spivak-esque obfuscationâtargets the needs of its time with seriousness (but not self-seriousness) and an understanding of what differences actually make a difference. Pipe dream, perhaps, but I like it. </p>
<p>@wesleyan97: Hereâs my suggestion on how to attain your ambitions for Wes and help solve another problem you see. First, go and make lots of money. Then, furnish a lot of it (better be at least 7 figures) to Wes with some strings attached for your ambitions. Besides moving Wes to where you think it should go, you would also help solve the endowment problem and possibly push Wes up in the rankings.</p>
<p>Somehow I think you will mock my suggestion. I am serious though. I admit it will be difficult.</p>
<p>Lol. Donât presume I disagree with you. But thatâs in general. Particular points can still be made without compromising more serious discussion. </p>
<p>So I recommended that my niece check out Wesleyan at a college fair tomorrow night. I hope even the more critical posters still think it is an excellent school overall. Sheâs a junior now. Very smart (great reading capacity) with the grades to match, social, but not the Wesleyan type as described here. Sheâd be really deflated, though, if college wasnât what she expected it to be. </p>
<p>Itâs a totally appropriate suggestion @GrudeMonkâ, and if I had the necessary talents to accumulate such wealth IâdâŠactually I would not give it to a college lol. Iâd probably design and fund an NGO. </p>
<p>@merc81â. The kids at Wesleyan totally made the place when I attended. Such open, curious, loving people, even at their most dyspeptic. I hope that hasnât changed. </p>
<p>I notice I made a mistake too. It will actually take an 8-figure number to make a difference.</p>
<p>Yeah, I was thinking 7 would be like one endowed professorshipâif that.</p>
<p>Thanks @wesleyan9. Curious is collegiate in the best sense, and you canât beat loving.</p>
<p>Iâm trying to be super careful with any advice I give her. Mostly I suggest she explore at this stage. Fortunately, she has an open mind and seems to want an education more so than a name. Something about that attitude will probably get her both.</p>
<p>Goldman Sachs recuited at Amherst? Harvard Law School recruited at Amherst? THE Goldman Sachs? THE Harvard Law? Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god! . . .</p>
<p>[Shrugs.] Goldman came to Amherst two weeks ago. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is coming to Wesleyan in two weeks.</p>
<p>Spelling: Sachs [recruited] at . . .</p>
<p>@circuitrider: I shrugged too when I read that earlier post. Thatâs why I posted.</p>
<p>Are the IMF coming to Wesleyan to lend them some money to build some new dorms�</p>