Overheard GEO 202
Professor: What do you think the average depth of the ocean is?
Student: 50,000 miles?
Frank O’Hara writes a poem
about why he’s not a painter, and in it
he writes a poem called “Oranges”
with no orange.
So I’ll write a self portrait
without myself.
I’ll write instead about what I like:
the opera, “Surfer Girl,”?walking right after it ...
“Joanna Newsom and the New Weird America.” That is the title of the BBC web site’s feature on Miss Newsom, a singer and songwriter who’s our age and, like many of us, sounds much younger.
There has already been a great deal of discussion about the USG’s proposed resolution barring the ROTC from campus. But even though debate on the resolution has been tabled until the fall—perhaps because it has been tabled—we should continue to discuss the issues that this rather sudden, and suddenly ended, discourse has raised.