I want to thank you all for your uber response to my last entry. But I suppose I should explain a few things about why I'm so upset at here.

First, if you have not heard there were 6 people who got suspended and 2 who got expelled. They were all seniors and I'm guessing all of you know who they are. It just really frusterates me that they have been here for three years and they all should know the rules and values of this community by now. It really upsets me that they are all seniors too. And when half the senior guys get suspended/expelled, it doesn't put us in a great light. At least out of this, those of us seniors who are still here need to keep being, in the words of Joseph Rajkumar, Shining Stars.

Second, I am really, really angry at the admissions policy here. This year all of the German guys play basketball and we have one 6'5 Scandanvian. And in the Ironwood newspaper it said that Conserve was "recruiting its students for athletics". And we brought that up in our ambassadors meeting and Jim just laughed it off. And to top it off, every day at 5:45 the whole basketball team is practicing and doing a fall leauge. I aprove of preseason training, but this is fucking ridiculous! We are just turning these kids into basketball machines, where do these kids have time for anything else? None of them really care about nature or giving stuff to this community, its all about basketball!

Let me ask a question, we're any of you conservians soley recruited to play a varsity sport? I'm guessing all of you will say no.

There is a certain group of us who still care, who still want to fight for this community to make it what it should be. Needless to say it is shrinking,
But right now I'm promising to fight. I've been to passive.

Right now all of us who are still here should be screaming, kicking, fighting to keep those values alive that we hold in such esteem.




I'm going to fight, Whose with me?