<p>yeah. when i talk about wesleyan turning into williams or amherst, that’s (^) what i’m talking about. </p>
<p>i am absolutely saying that with eclectic gone wesleyan will come to resemble the picture i just painted. eclectic makes it cool to be weird - to be into art, to dress outlandishly in tight pants and other funny clothes which would be unthinkable elsewhere, to be into music, etc. </p>
<p>without it as a clearinghouse for those kinds of endeavors (art, fashion, music) on campus, what will happen is that the people who are into those things will go off in their own directions. in the short term the social scene will fragment even more than it already is; there’ll be a period of uncertainty where, like i said, people just go off and do their own thing. in the long term, however, the types of people who are drawn to wesleyan by the kinds of things which eclectic represents are not going to come here anymore - they’ll go to art school, they’ll stay in california. in the long term, then, wesleyan loses its distinct artsy-quirky culture, with large organized social groups like Psi U and, yes, Beta and DKE sucking up the difference. </p>
<p>And1.</p>