Free Bagels, Shrunken Stuyvesant

Seems there are a lot of free bagels roaming around campus, that is, unless Nick and Molly have already claimed them all.

I fear that, in discussing such critical issues of domestic policy as where one can find free bagels on the Chicago campus, the Cabal of Style may turn into something of a Midwestern version of the NYT's Metropolitan Diary. Next thing you know we'll be talking about overheard conversations on buses that involve precocious toddlers and their spry grandmothers.

In more serious news, New York's Stuyvesant High School has decided to decrease the size of the student body. Not of the individual students, few of whom exceed standard scrawny nerd proportions, but rather the number of students in each class. Fearing that his school was not being perceived of as sufficiently exclusive and obnoxious, principal Stanley Teitel (who, if I remember correctly, liked to make paranoid announcements over the loudspeaker about how students' misdeeds would appear on their transcripts) seems to have decided to let fewer students into each incoming class. More on that at http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/18/nyregion/18stuyvesant.html (Even a Stuyvesant grad can be blog-link-impaired... will fix that soon, hopefully.)

Stuyvesant is a crowded place, but happily crowded, and constant proximity to fellow human beings is the only hope that its nerdy students have of gaining some semblance of social skills.