Is there any manly – or even semi-masculine – way to carry those little wire-handled takeout boxes?
Have any students ever been injured after a collision caused by someone reading while walking?
Have any students ever been injured after being run down by someone biking at 15mph through a crowd of pedestrians?
Just how do you put those supertight jeans?
Is the male fad for wearing sleeveless shirts (even, apparently, to class!) somehow semiotically the same as the female trend (now standard, I guess) of wearing low-cut shirts?
Have Converse Chuck Taylor All-Stars ever been out of style?
Why are there so few punks on campus? Skinheads are few and far between, and you rarely see mohawks, usually on jocks.
In my experience, punks tend to remain punks with increasingly younger punks, or stop being punk pretty quickly after age 19 or so. Therefore any who make it to Carleton will inevitably have reduced their punk-ness to just hipster-ness and probably be happy they aren’t at community college with their studded leather wearing friends.
On the tank top issue, I have had two students who observe “tank top Thursdays”. They are/were both football players (and psych majors). I haven’t asked them about the purpose but they wore pretty ratty tank tops and I think the point is that they were so cool that they didn’t have to worry about the potential loss of coolness (and temperature coldness) of wearing tank tops.
They are also both wonderful, warm, people and great students!
Wow, CT, that’s a lot to ponder. Those of us who aren’t still mesmerized by THE FLOOD, are looking around and getting hypnotized by the orange, red, and yellow leaves . . . and now we are faced with these sociological conundrums. Actually, the question about biking through a crowd terrorizes me daily. I always look both ways when entering a sidewalk at a 90 degree angle when cutting across campus. So far so good, personally speaking.