<p>I have to second JHS’s scathing and incisive evaluation of this vacuous editorial. Of course, it <em>is</em> a student editorial, and on occasion you can even find vacuous editorials in the Maroon. But if the Stanford piece is a fair representation of the place, it pretty strongly suggests that intellectual passion is at best optional there. And too often once something like this becomes optional, it will soon become marginalized and maybe even scorned.</p>