the University Concourse Volume IV, Issue 3 December 8, 1998 Table of Contents

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Enjoying the concourse

I left Honors 301 on break the other day and our class sat in our usual position in the Egan hallway, but there was none of the usual banter, none of the teasing twelve-minute stress-relief. There was a new Concourse out, and our collective nose was buried in the articles. Despite its infrequent schedule, your journal is an important part of life on campus, and I truly enjoy reading it each time it arrives.

By the way, I think Joe Sobran is wrong about Shakespeare because he (JS) is a closet parricide. With a father that ran out on him, Sobran can't take authority at face value. Because of that, he is always "biting the hand that feeds him." Thus his stance on the Jewish question as well. Thanks again for the Concourse.

Michael Magree

Junior, classics/philosophy major

The editor replies:

My thanks for the very encouraging remarks. It's always nice to hear that the Concourse is appreciated.

Readers should note that the frequency of our publishing schedule depends almost entirely on the number of articles submitted to us. If you'd like us to appear more often, please keep them coming!

I don't know anything about Sobran's childhood, or his alleged psychological dysfunctions. I formed my opinion based on the overwhelming evidence he laid out in his book.(1) (It's interesting to observe that critics of Sobran's theory seem never to address the substance of his argument.) But if we're going to bring up the psychology of the case, I might just as well point out that if some people are disposed by nature or circumstance to be anti-establishment, many more are disposed to be conformists. These will disregard any amount of evidence rather than admit the possibility that truth could be on the side of a rogue amateur who refuses to toe the orthodox scholars' line.