This is an autumn of controversies.

TC shamelessly capitalized on what happened between Provost Jane Fernandes and the student body. The shirts sold like hotcakes, all 70 in less than an hour—we had to reorder.

Other shirts in the works: IKJ Rockstar...the beauty of it is that it's for both people who love and hate him—the former will see it as genuflective and the latter, tongue-in-cheek—it'll be whatever you want to see...and 1970's vintage style Carl Pramuk, captions: "I used to be cool".

When Provost heard about her shirt, she claimed to be amused and want to buy one, but her office tried to make SBG order students to take off the shirts. SBG declined. IBProvostwasreallypissedbutherPRspecialistadvisedhertoplayitcooland
pretendtolaughatherselfwhilesiccingherproxiesonus.

Another, and more significant, controversy is Ryan's protest. This blog pretty much says it all. I saw his girlfriend on campus today and she said Ryan lost 20 pounds. I'm glad he's eating again because it had occurred to me that he wouldn't last long. A person usually can survive about a month without eating, but cold weather causes humans to burn calories faster to stay warm and Ryan already has a fast metabolism. She said Ryan had to endure a lot of people (mostly parents) coming over to scream at him. But he also got support so that evened things up a bit.

Obese people should try the Hunger Strike Diet sometimes. Less injustice & more hotties in the world.