Filling our Hearts with the Sound of Music, Fu Foundation Bureau Chief, Tony Gong shares his comments on Oliver Sacks' lecture.

At 11:00 a.m. yesterday, I ventured out of my room far too early for a Friday morning to catch Oliver Sacks' Core-wide Music Hum lecture in Roone. But discovering new evidence to prove that not only Disney music is magical justified accidentally waking up my dozing roommate.

Professor Walter Frisch, the Director of Music Humanities, started the morning triumphantly by telling us that this was the "first time Music Humanities has sponsored a lecture." Before the audience could grasp Music Humanities' laziness implicit therein, Frisch excitedly went on to introduce Oliver Sacks, whom Frisch praised for his "scientific precision, profound empathy, and graceful prose."

Looks like the first-years aren't the only ones taking shortcuts. A tipster forwarded us an e-mail from a nameless, irate Music Hum teacher, threatening dire consequences for the miscreant who swiped a pile of final papers. Bwog cowers on your behalf, paper-thief. Here's the e-mail:

"Dear all--

"I apologize that there has been a delay in submitting final grades for graduating seniors, and that there may be an extended delay in submitting final grades for all other students. This delay is due to an incident involving theft of a handful of final papers from my mailbox, and for reasons that I am not at liberty to disclose, it is now clear that these papers were stolen by a student from our class, presumably for his or her own benefit. Though I have already communicated with several of you whose papers were stolen, the majority of you know nothing about this. One of you, however, knows exactly what I am talking about.

I regard this as a very serious offense. It involves not only theft of personal property--papers belonging to individual students--but almost surely plagiarism. I will absolutely get to the bottom of this, no matter how long it takes to resolve. I have already contacted the Music Humanities Chair about the incident, and we are about to assemble a team of administrators to investigate the matter thoroughly.