The $160,000 question

Students gathered yesterday around a sign outside the Department of Modern Culture and Media building on Thayer Street that read:

$160,000

...so as to end up flaccid, immobile, alone on the carpet of a dorm room, shirtless, wheezing, intellectually menopausal, cutting lines on an iBook® with a pre-paid Discover® card, watching consecutive hours of user-gen- erated porn, in the dark, in a hoodie, apolitical, remorseless, eating salt- and-vinegar potato chips from a bag without a napkin: like some hero, pretending to be otherwise, on a Wednesday, during discussion section.