Editorial
73 degrees and midterms
By Editorial Staff
March 10, 2016
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We on the Spectator Editorial Board aim to lodge relevant critiques of the College informed by our weekly content. This week, embroiled in the throes of midterms, we would like to shoot a bit higher than the College, this time informed by discontent—that which doesn’t make our pages, but which we find all around us: the weather.
This has been, by all accounts, a mild winter. Certainly, it bears no resemblance to the snowy behemoth we saw last year. But however upward Hamilton climbs in the rankings, it gets no farther South, and we can’t help taking subzero temperatures as an affront to daily existence.
The old joke is that the College was built where there is nothing to do but study, where the weather is too inclement to attempt any but scholarly, indoor pursuits. And yet, intellectual life still appears to go on at schools like the University of South Carolina, if President Stewart is any indication.
Lately, such a lack of appreciation for warmer climes seems appalling. And even more so that this week, with the expectations of parents, professors and ourselves, we are forced to eschew formal examinations if we are to give this newly-found draught of warm air the appreciation it deserves.
Thus, we direct at the student body two contradictory directives:
1. Get outside and enjoy spring for the few moments we can. You’ve earned it.
2. Get back inside and study. You will also have earned whatever grades you get on these midterms.
Good luck, friends.