<p>Of course, passion can be a fleeting thing, sometimes. One of the bloggers, Jessica Howard, won the race for President of the Student Council last spring with a promise to fight the Anchor housing system – which is widely unpopular on campus.</p>
<p>One week after the election, she rolled over and played dead following a meeting with the administration. In a letter, she wrote that the Student Council had been informed that anchor housing was inevitable and that, to have any input whatsoever, the Student Council had decided to support it.</p>
<p>The whole thing is kinda of amusing to the old-timers. The college is going back to the “house system” that was in place when I was there 30 years ago. As far as I could tell, the only people who liked the system back then were the people living in the old frat houses. In four years, I never set foot in my “house” more than three or four times for Sunday brunch freshman year.</p>