Students have been back on campus for the past 10 days. Slowly, but surely, students are becoming more and more disenchanted with the meal plans available from the campus food service provider Aramark.

Why are we becoming dissatisfied? Because of the changes from the service and selection of last year.



'60s morality reigns

I must confess to believing at one time or another nearly all of the persistent fantasies of the '60s. I thought, at various times, that love could be free, that the system was to blame, that all I had to do was, as the anthem of the Woodstock generation declares, "get back to the land to set my soul free." I was confident that the solution to all human problems lay in tolerance and acceptance, in viewing the world as many shades of gray.



A matter of Christian ethics

To the Editor,

As columnist Andrea Calabretta thoughtfully pointed out in last week's issue, our limited knowledge of another's circumstances surrounding a crime or crisis, coupled with a knowledge of our own moral failings, hardly endows us with the confidence to make a moral assessment of others. Whether part of a formal jury or the critical American public, we are faced with the agonizing dilemma of how to see justice done without fully knowing all the circumstances. What do we do? Do we evade the decision, remove ourselves from society and let everyone deal with their problems as they best know how? Or do we fall back on an agreed-upon set of moral guidelines, simply for the need to maintain order in the world?



Eat out on the town in style

The '60s had marijuana; the '80s had cocaine. Could the drug that defines the '90s be the Internet? Everywhere I look I see addicts searching for a quick fix, and I am not excluding myself from this. I'll admit I check my e-mail five, six, ... 15 times a day. There is no doubt in my mind that we have become a culture addicted to having every possible convenience at our fingertips. Everything must be faster, more convenient, and it must require less thinking and less skill. What effect does this have on us as individuals and as a society?



'Bonnie' will be missed

To the Editor,

I didn't know her very well, but I do remember her. She was in most of my classes, in some of my labs, and we knew each other in passing, as people who share similar schedules, natures and ambitions will. So one can only imagine my surprise when I opened The Flat Hat and read about an unfortunate car accident that occurred at the beginning of the summer, in which the College lost one of its most promising students. I was extremely upset to learn that Baninder Taneja, who most of us knew simply as Bonnie, would not be returning to class with the rest of us.



In the face of disaster, what is most important in life?

You've been at school for a couple weeks now. Youšve most likely settled in, taken care of obtaining all the things you forgot to bring and gotten your room set up the way you want it.

So take a look around that room. Some of you have quite a pad, I'm sure. Maybe the latest version of the Sony PlayStation, a fancy TV and VCR and a state of the art stereo decorate your room. Towers of CDs reach toward the ceiling, and the electric sockets overflow with wires leading to various electrical appliances. Most people at this school probably have lots of nice things in their rooms.