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The Daily Trojan
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007 06:43 pmWhile browsing Feministe, I stumbled upon a link to "Feminism to blame for the death of chivalry". The article contains the kind of reaction that was predictable and understandable coming from old gentlemen in the 1970s but seems rather ingenuous coming from college students in the 21st century. In any case, chivalry was not killed by man-eating feminists; it was killed by the invention of the flintlock.
Anyway, what I wanted to mention was not the content of the article (which was utterly predictable) but the name of the student newspaper in which it appeared: The Daily Trojan. What on earth can a daily Trojan be? Is it some kind of Homeric reference, as in "Achilles was out of sorts because he hadn't had his daily Trojan"? Or is it perhaps an attempt to encourage the use of condoms among the student population? This is laudable, but isn't "daily" taking it a bit too far? That might be OK in the holidays, but in term time students should take a few evenings off a week to write essays and study for exams.
Anyway, what I wanted to mention was not the content of the article (which was utterly predictable) but the name of the student newspaper in which it appeared: The Daily Trojan. What on earth can a daily Trojan be? Is it some kind of Homeric reference, as in "Achilles was out of sorts because he hadn't had his daily Trojan"? Or is it perhaps an attempt to encourage the use of condoms among the student population? This is laudable, but isn't "daily" taking it a bit too far? That might be OK in the holidays, but in term time students should take a few evenings off a week to write essays and study for exams.
