Victoria Mariconti is a staff Opinions columnist for The Heights. She is a member of the Class of 2015 in the College of Arts and Sciences and majors in music. Victoria began writing for The Heights in January 2014.

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Some Music To Consider

By: Victoria Mariconti

You listen to it occasionally when you study. You’ve probably been subjected to it in a too-warm concert hall full of the “elderly” (the 45-plus population). It is classical music.

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COLUMN: Love Begins With Respect

By: Victoria Mariconti

While walking down the stairs from Upper Campus last Saturday, I happened to overhear a pack of first-year gentlemen trading stories from the previous evening’s revelry. Who wouldn’t cringe or bristle when four young men derisively gloat over their conquests, ridiculing their too willing collaborators? (It takes two to tango, after all).

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A Diversion For You

By: Victoria Mariconti

Faced with the prospect of an ambitious and exciting junior spring, I have recently devoted a fair amount of time to reflecting on why I do what I do, why I have made the choices that have charted the course for my semester. My reflections have consistently retreated to recalled excerpts from Blaise Pascal’s Pensees.

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