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Clarkies: Meet Walter the Waterboy

  • Robbie Franklin
  • Apr 21, 2015
  • 1 min read

Man Running in the Mist

Dear Clarkies,

My name is Walter, and I am a sophomore here at Clark. For the last two years I have been a waterboy for our varsity sports program, and have been a front-line witness of the dreary seasons that our teams have faced, along with the devastating effects these losses have on the moral of the student athletes and the student body as a whole. I, as a waterboy, can only do so much; I am no Adam Sandler. However, despite my lack in athleticism, I am confident that Clark has the ability to become a very competitive Division III varsity program, but so many of its athletes are stuck in the “green sports,” or sports that practice on the green like ultimate, quidditch, and most other intramural or club sports. Our sports program’s largest problem is its lack of popularity among the athletes of these sports, so I have taken it upon myself to ‘hipsterize’ Clark University’s varsity program.

Therefore, for the health of Clark University as a whole, I have convinced the athletic department to replace all of the water bottles used by the sports teams with mason jars in an effort to make varsity sports more appealing to the obviously dominant demographics here at Clark. I hope you will all support me in this campaign, for this is easily the most pressing issue facing Clark today.

Cordially Yours, Walter

 
 
 

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Hipster Quote of the Week:

The message at the end of “The Tortoise and the Hare” isn’t that ‘slow and steady wins the race’, but actually a well-remembered quote from the 1977 Disney classic “A New Hope”: “Great kid! Don’t get cocky”. Bullshit that the hare was gonna lose that race if he didn’t choose to stop for a nap and a snack and whatever else he did. Bullshit that the tortoise was going to catch up in any capacity if the hare didn’t slow down for him. Maybe that platitude makes sense, but definitely not in this situation.

 

A race is a sheer contest of speed. No other skills go into that. The tortoise and the hare aren’t making miniature wooden horses and getting judged on the craftsmanship of their products alongside their finish time; they are moving from one point to another. In no universe does slow and steady win that race. Slow and steady wins no races, except for races where the point is to go as slow as possible. Even in cases where slow and steady could be considered a possible alternative to fast, such as the aforementioned miniature-wooden-horse-making competition, someone who can do similar quality work at a much faster pace still wins that competition.

 

Slow and steady does not win the race. Not being too full of yourself does.."

 

~Nick Gilfor

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