Molarity Classic: 495-499

Author: Michael Molinelli '82

Sometimes the truth can be awkward or painful. And sometimes it tastes good with butter and salt.

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495. This is the last of the Football Saturday “Sunday” cartoons. For some reason it’s not a fan favorite, although a few female Domers and SMC students expressed their satisfaction with the sentiment.

 

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496. I regret to say, the kind of disconnect in communication portrayed in this cartoon is all too common today.

 

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497. Even though I was an architecture major, I kept Jim’s major vaguely liberal arts as arkies were outliers anyway. Jim needed his personality to be a bit more accessible.

 

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498. And if the was the class before lunch, we were even less likely to retain anything.

 

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499. This cartoon began the start of Molarity’s longest running storyline up to this point, spanning several weeks. It is fair to say from the feedback I received that I managed to build interest as the story unfolded.

 


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