The Colby Echo

Issue date: 3/9/07 Section: Opinions

This letter concerns the front-page photo of students sledding on Chapel Hill, published on February 23rd, 2007. The photo caption states that students "shred it gnargnar on the fresh powder in front of Lorimer Chapel." This caption is a gross misuse of "gnar" terminology. "Gnargnar," or gnar for short, is a noun, not an adjective or adverb. Gnar means snow, particularly fluffy pow-pow, and the correct usage would have been "Colby students shred THE gnargnar in front of Lorimer Chapel." The Echo editors have failed to properly apply gnar terminology into their production, and by doing so have dishonored the gnar-founders (pot-head ski-bums in a ski town out West), offended ski-bums across the country who depend on gnar terminology to communicate in their daily lives, and have failed to keep it real. Irresponsible, unprofessional, and disrespectful...

Ben Morse '09

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