Wide-ruled notebook avoids carpal tunnel

This letter is in response to the disgrace to language recently written by one Mr. Adam Pender concerning the alleged superiorities of the college-ruled notebook. To this I say, Mr. Pender, what a fool you are. Only those who are self-flagellant or proto-scholastic would take such a studious look at the "redeeming" properties of such a notorious paper. This cold, calculated and only half serious look at the inherent economic hardships faced by the wide-ruled regime make the paper out to be the choice of the overtly accountable generation, whose tone would make some shy away. As for the level of comfort afforded its users, the objective writer takes note that to constrict oneself so is to perform the slowest, most vile form of self-mutilation — death by arthritis caused by wrenching one's hand into the wrist so that the largest amount of white space is covered. It is folly to deprecate the body at the expense of three sheets of paper a notebook, the vast majority of which are ordained by law to be made of a percentage of post-consumer waste (that is recycled to the uninitiated) and new growth "forests," which are indeed renewable resources. To place the cold facts of actuarial science at the heart of a debate which has such resonant effects in our own nature is to demean the human spirit and bespeaks of a utilitarian philosophy that may at best be fatally flawed. Shame on you and your ilk, Mr. Pender.

Wide-ruled paper is the choice of those in tune with themselves and their being. It allows freedom of expression, freedom of expansion and the freedom to be free of debilitating carpal tunnel at a later age. I should only hope that one day we could all rejoice under this banner and raise our hands together in song, without having to wear wrist braces.

Thomas J. Hertweck

Junior, Schools of Engineering

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