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...address this problem, I hereby announce the founding of a new student group, which will serve the needs of graduating seniors who do not know what they are doing next year. Tentatively titled the Alliance of Ne'erdowell Graduates just Sitting and Thinking (ANGST), the organization's primary mission will be to provide support, solidarity and a weekly newsletter for its core constituency. As ANGST's founder, I would naturally be honored to assume its presidency, along with the generous stipend which this office will provide...
...RECENT GRADUATE of Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges presently lacking work, school or any other valuable means of spending his or her time is, whether they know it or not, hereby a member of ANGST. Conversely, the act of deciding what to do in the future is grounds for immediate expulsion...
Some may question the necessity of such an organization. But a group like ANGST is in fact vitally important, if only because of the superior managment and visibility of a rival faction, the Harvard Union of Bold, Remarkably In-control Students (HUBRIS). This group has set the tone for all Harvard seniors, misrepresenting their approach to graduation as the only valid one. Their insidious publicity campaign has led the general public to the erroneous and dangerous impression that all Harvard seniors are and should be proceeding directly to exciting jobs, post-graduate education and other worthwhile destinations. They have further...
Neil Postman, a visiting professor at the Kennedy School, has deftly identified several reasons why television causes "learned" people such angst. He notes that every past transition in means of communication has made people angry. The Catholic Church was not amused when the printed book was introduced. Even something as seemingly innocuous as the alphabet had its critics--mainly those elders who were proficient in hieroglyphics...
...Harvard administrators and counselors, these figures should not be surprising. Even before the poll's release, some of Harvard's counseling organizations had anticipated the psychological impact the war would have on students, and were busy helping students cope with war angst...