Marginalia

Nut Profit

In the Winter 2011 issue, we challenged alumni to caption this photograph of a young man and woman engaging with the Hyde Park fauna. The winning entry, from Steven Kut, AB’96, challenged our assumption that the folks in the photo are students.

“Go on, Enrico, give it a little more uranium. What’s the worst that can happen?”

Kut received a $50 gift certificate to the Seminary Co-op Bookstore and a pair of squirrel underpants—“my four-year-old,” he reported, “thinks they’re hysterical.”

The runner-up was Erik Charter, who received the tiny briefs for his caption.

“Just because I paid you with nuts doesn’t mean you don’t have to give me my change.“