calories

[Justin Schwartz]

You left Princeton off your list of the sources of jerks and dolts. As a 
Tigertown grad, I take exception. People should realize that the Ivies were 
originaly finishing schools for the nation's elite, not mainly intellectual 
powerhouses. To a good extent, they still are. A good many of the kids in 
them are "legacies"--a child of a  Princeton grad has a 40% chance of 
admission, more than 5X the likelihood of an applicant without that 
advantage. A lot of these people are rich dummies. There is a sprinkling of 
really brilliant students--three of my friends there got McArthur grants, 
no, five, now that UI think about it--but a lot of the students are just 
connected. --jks


>
> >W, from an interview in today's NYT:
> >
> >>Asked about the perk that he expected to enjoy the most, he said:
> >>"Good food, I guess. They've got great food. The dessert menu is
> >>unbelievable. These things are so exotic it's hard to even describe
> >>what they are. They're these kinds of mounds of calories."
> >
> >This guy went to Andover, Yale, and Harvard? He sounds like he just
> >stepped out of a log cabin.
> >
> >Doug
>
>
>If only W. had the wit of the Clampett clan, or the absurdism of
>Hooterville's finest. Still, I don't see why an Ivy League education is
>supposed to set you apart. Some of the biggest dolts and jerks I've met 
>came
>from Ivy League schools -- Harvard, Dartmouth and Yale primarily.
>
>DP

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