Maureen Dowd column on Landon

[Anonymous]

I think the news about Landon is very useful, and I don't want them to change their culture. Every society has a certain number of douchebags. The fact that they concentrate at Landon means that there are fewer of them at my school and yours.

Let them stay there. If they make the mistake of leaving it on their resume when they go job-hunting, it will be an easy reject for me.

[Anonymous]

That's a selfish, narrow view, PP. Of course we want Landon to change; we don't want schools educating boys to become men who are complete louts because that is bad for our society. Men who treat women with disrespect is everybody's problem.

[Anonymous]

11:58 they i guess you should reject uva lacrosse players too since they also have drinking problems. Whitman graduates might bring pornography in. they are out. And churchill grads might be cheaters. St. Albans kids might be gun enthusiasts.

Maybe you should judge the person and what they have done, not tarnish everyone for the actions of a few.

[Anonymous]

You might want to talk to Yale and the Rhodes committee about Bill Clinton to see what they did to make him have sex with an intern in the oval office.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:11:58 they i guess you should reject uva lacrosse players too since they also have drinking problems. Whitman graduates might bring pornography in. they are out. And churchill grads might be cheaters. St. Albans kids might be gun enthusiasts.

Maybe you should judge the person and what they have done, not tarnish everyone for the actions of a few.

11:58 here again. Duke and UVA are also on my list. Easy rejects because the douche ratio is too high.

[Anonymous]

I think there's some truth to what pp 11:58 writes. It's going to be angst time when college application times rolls around and your ds has the Landon affiliation. It may not be such a bad thing in the end, (doubtful) but parents will wonder about it.

[Anonymous]

Don't do any deals with the MD Attorney General. His son goes there too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don't do any deals with the MD Attorney General. His son goes there too.

See. This is my point. He's been censured by the MD and DC courts, and his wife has been suspended from the DC bar.

Quite frankly, I don't understand how two government lawyers can afford to send their kids to Landon in the first place.

[Anonymous]

I'm sure you know you can never tell about someone's economic situation pp. Many people have family money or live frugally or borrow tremendously.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think the news about Landon is very useful, and I don't want them to change their culture. Every society has a certain number of douchebags. The fact that they concentrate at Landon means that there are fewer of them at my school and yours.

Let them stay there. If they make the mistake of leaving it on their resume when they go job-hunting, it will be an easy reject for me.

I agree- let's keep the douchebags together!

[Anonymous]

I think it is really sad that the Washington Post only reported on this AFTER the New York Times ran a Maureen Dowd column on it. If the Post wonders why its numbers are dwindling, this is exactly why. This is a local story and we would expect the local paper to scoop the national one.

[Anonymous]

Yeah, keep the douchebags other there at dat school. We don't want them mixing with us sophisticates or marching on our turf. Guys, I'll see yous later at Badda Bing?

[Anonymous]

I totally agree. It's really lame the WP quoted the NYT story in its own coverage and was scooped by it.

Anonymous wrote:I think it is really sad that the Washington Post only reported on this AFTER the New York Times ran a Maureen Dowd column on it. If the Post wonders why its numbers are dwindling, this is exactly why. This is a local story and we would expect the local paper to scoop the national one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I totally agree. It's really lame the WP quoted the NYT story in its own coverage and was scooped by it.

Anonymous wrote:I think it is really sad that the Washington Post only reported on this AFTER the New York Times ran a Maureen Dowd column on it. If the Post wonders why its numbers are dwindling, this is exactly why. This is a local story and we would expect the local paper to scoop the national one.

You're not being fair to the NYT and WaPo. First of all, the NYT reporters did not scoop anyone. A *DC-based* columnist for the Times wrote the story. Who do you think is more likely to travel in the rarified douchebag circles of Landon--the Times or the Post? Clearly, the Times.

[Anonymous]

i was not that surprised by the story, which isn't to say i wasn't repulsed by it.

this is a cultural problem, globally, and not all that particular to a school like landon.

the solution is twofold: 1)address the issue, culture-wide; 2)phase out male-only institutions. they frequently generate these kind of problems. those kinds of institutions just don't gel with modern civilization.