Word: meaninglessness
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...meaningless game as far as the Ivy standings were concerned. The Crimson had already clinched third place, the loss dropped the Harvard mark to 9-5 for the year. 16-10 overall. For the Bruins the win meant little more, if anything. Brown vaults into a fourth place tie with Columbia, with both squads sporting 5-9 records...
...disposes of Descartes, Hegel, Marx and others with remarkable self-assurance. Finally he comes face to face with his arch-villain, the Great Satan of Kung's world, Nietzsche, Nietzsche, the apostle of nihilism, stands for everything Kung fears: God is dead, there is no reality, everything is meaningless. Far from believing Kung's favorite quote of Einstein's, "God does not play dice," Nietzsche says, there is no God, there are no dice, there isn't even a game...
...president can profit from the unique perspective of students if he lets them inform themselves. Rather than making a meaningless solicitation for their uninformed views, Bok should let students suggest names of possible candidates, interview the candidates, and submit an evaluation of the final candidates for his serious consideration. It would be harder for Bok to make a decision against the students' and faculty's wishes, in the face of this public student position. An open process would make the president more accountable to students and faulty and less likely to betray them, because their views would be publicly know...
...with a 5-9 record behind them and miles of I-95 in front, Billy Cleary's squad will have one heck of a time attaining the .500 record it will take to qualify for the 'ECAC playoffs. Without a sweep tonight and tomorrow there will be some long, meaningless bus rides in the next few weeks...
Finally, registration represents a transparent attempt to match Russian aggression with American preparedness. It was a meaningless gesture when Carter proposed it after the invasion of Afghanistan, and it remains an embarrassing--if largely forgotten--example of our misguided attempt to stave off the ill-defined communist threat...