OFF THE SHELF by Steve Nadis
Who said that college kids these days don't give a damn? At Harvard University, they're taking it to the streets. While in my day, student protestors were wont to say, "Off the pig," undergraduates at Harvard have a new rallying cry, "Off the shelf," in response to the injustice of having some of their favorite cereals removed from the cafeteria buffet. There's even a new activist organization (a PAC, essentially) with the pithy name "Harvard Students for the Reimplementation of Brand-Named Cereals." At a lesser institution, the students might not have been comfortable with the six-syllable "reimplementation," going with the two-syllable "return" instead. What has the HSRBNC up in arms? The removal of Lucky Charms for one thing, along with Fruit Loops and Cap'n Crunch. No wonder they're up in arms. For their whole lives they've had it drummed into their heads that "breakfast is the most important meal of the day"--just as "tomorrow is the first day of the rest of your life." If breakfast is as important as we've heard it is, setting us in good stead to face the first day of the rest of our lives, who can blame 'em?
