a perfect place, nor has it ever been such. there are plenty of things that need to change, but there are just as many people willing to effect that change. though i am still a floundering, mostly anonymous freshman, i know there are people here who would go to the ends of the world for me (let alone to the end of the line at the hop). i have a professor who is determined to learn the names of all of his students (140 in my class alone, and counting), i no longer get lost on campus and someone even asked me if it was my article that they read 