NO MAGAZINE IS AN ISLAND

This week Peninsula was back in the news, but for a peculiar reason: that is the very fact that it has been absent from the news for so long now. We at Dartboard know the pain of trying to stir up controversy but being met only with apathy, so we have decided to help out our partners in provocation. We propose to provide Peninsula with recrimination welfare; no publication should be denied at least a subsistence level of rhetorical counterattacks.

In their latest issue, Peninsula staffers took issue, not merely with abortion (the old stand-by), but contraception. In ideological terms, that's like a person wearing a sign that says, "Will Work For Food."

And since Peninsula's fortune seems to be the result of a Great Depression in campus tensions, we'll engage in a little Keynesianism (anathema, we realize, as it is to Peninsula's spirit) and prime the pump of vituperation, with some social service attack poetry:

Peninsula's truculent writing

Has caused to elicit debate;

The liberal press has stopped biting

So Dartboard will dangle some bait

Your grammer school Latin pretension

And pitiful polyglot pose

Can't disguise the lack of invention

In your bland and unreadable prose

From the reams of your paper spent squealing

How "homos in Hell will combust,"

It's clear that you're merely concealing