Letter to the Editor
Letter to the Editor
Issue date: 2/15/05 Section: Opinion
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December 5, 2004
In a recent Fifteen article ["What's Your Ocean Personality," Vol. 2, No. 5], the Atlantic Ocean was characterized as the "dysfunctional ocean." My ocean has reacted with a nearly unanimous sense of disbelief and outrage. Atlantics with engineering backgrounds want the results thrown out because "n" was too small. Atlantics with liberal arts backgrounds want another survey to correct the "selection bias" that plagued the initial poll. Atlantics with backgrounds in revenge-such as me-just want revenge.
While the "Oscar the Grouch" co-branding is okay-he is, after all, the most real character on Sesame Street and has great hair-the article's other assertions are lies.
In terms of functionality, we're the ocean that brought you breakfast. True, isn't it? Every time another ocean collectively buys Dunkin Donuts before an 8:30 class, we should be getting a $10 license fee for our intellectual property. But we don't collect, which brings me to my next point.
Atlantics may not be as big a presence at Sloan parties as we could be. But that's just because our high-octane lifestyles have consequences. Atlantics regularly party with well-known rappers, models, and reality TV stars. This lifestyle isn't for weekend warriors. If 50 Cent and Trishelle from the Real World Las Vegas want to go the Viper Room on a Tuesday night, we go. If that means we're a little bleary-eyed at BHP, that's the cost of being a player.
And if none of this is convincing, we have Colin Ducharme. Colin Ducharme can dunk.
Please be advised that the "least cohesive" ocean has decided to form the Atlantic Ocean Legal Defense Fund ("AOLDF") to explore its legal remedies. The AOLDF has retained David Boies, the senior litigator at Boies, Schiller & Flexner, and asked Mr. Boies "to hurt Fifteen, its editors, and that punk Casillo." While the court system may not be able to "make right" this egregious, libelous wrong, it will fulfill our need for revenge.
In a recent Fifteen article ["What's Your Ocean Personality," Vol. 2, No. 5], the Atlantic Ocean was characterized as the "dysfunctional ocean." My ocean has reacted with a nearly unanimous sense of disbelief and outrage. Atlantics with engineering backgrounds want the results thrown out because "n" was too small. Atlantics with liberal arts backgrounds want another survey to correct the "selection bias" that plagued the initial poll. Atlantics with backgrounds in revenge-such as me-just want revenge.
While the "Oscar the Grouch" co-branding is okay-he is, after all, the most real character on Sesame Street and has great hair-the article's other assertions are lies.
In terms of functionality, we're the ocean that brought you breakfast. True, isn't it? Every time another ocean collectively buys Dunkin Donuts before an 8:30 class, we should be getting a $10 license fee for our intellectual property. But we don't collect, which brings me to my next point.
Atlantics may not be as big a presence at Sloan parties as we could be. But that's just because our high-octane lifestyles have consequences. Atlantics regularly party with well-known rappers, models, and reality TV stars. This lifestyle isn't for weekend warriors. If 50 Cent and Trishelle from the Real World Las Vegas want to go the Viper Room on a Tuesday night, we go. If that means we're a little bleary-eyed at BHP, that's the cost of being a player.
And if none of this is convincing, we have Colin Ducharme. Colin Ducharme can dunk.
Please be advised that the "least cohesive" ocean has decided to form the Atlantic Ocean Legal Defense Fund ("AOLDF") to explore its legal remedies. The AOLDF has retained David Boies, the senior litigator at Boies, Schiller & Flexner, and asked Mr. Boies "to hurt Fifteen, its editors, and that punk Casillo." While the court system may not be able to "make right" this egregious, libelous wrong, it will fulfill our need for revenge.