EDITORIAL: Storm and stress

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Posted: 9/5/06

The reception students received upon arriving on campus from their summer vacations was cooler than in pervious years, but it had nothing to do with the friendliness of their CAs.

For some reason, be it global warming or the hand of God, the usual humidity of late-August and early-September have been absent from the Brandeis campus, yet this page finds this change in the weather a mixed blessing.

Though a welcome respite from the typical late-summer heat, the past week's weather went beyond what students would want at the start of an academic year, with its gloomy skies and rainy days-climactically more appropriate for October-and perhaps a poor omen for this next semester.

Forced to remain inside to avoid being drenched by drizzle, most could not engage in usual summer activities, like tossing a Frisbee on the Great Lawn or reading by Yakus Pond.

And yet, it would seem that autumn-in-summer could not dog the newest Brandeisians: The boat cruise this past Sunday could have been ruined by the rain, but, excited by the prospects of their new home, the first-years danced through it.

With the weather's skipping ahead to autumnal conditions in early September, there is little we can do other than bundle up, resentful of New England's climate, and hope that winter will not be particularly brutal.