February 2008
Volume 31/Issue 5

So, What's Your Other Major?
Double majors aren't just for overachievers.
Wellesley In the Winter
Stop scowling at the snow and grab your camera.
Grassroots 101
Young voters are taking a stand to make a difference.
A Match Made in...?
Click and tell with TheMatchup.net.
"It's Okay Pluto, I'm Not a Planet Either"
You can't change the history of the universe without a fight.
Agenda
Events at MIT, Wellesley, and in the Boston area for February.
A Letter to the Editor

About Us

About Counterpoint:

Counterpoint has come a long way since its founding in November 1991. The first issue of the magazine, subtitled “Rational Discourse and Campus Life,” was as a right-wing, conservative, alternative publication that gave the Wellesley and MIT communities the opportunity to read something different from what they encountered elsewhere on campus. The founding publisher, Avik S. Roy, wrote in the first issue, “Counterpoint… hopes to promote progress on the issues by providing an open forum to those from all regions of the ideological spectrum. By encouraging everyone to participate in the debate, the most pragmatic solutions will emerge.”

Since then, we have swung steadily towards the left and loosened up a little (okay, a lot) on Roy’s penchant for rational discourse, but we still hope to serve as a forum for a range of issues, from the serious to the silly. In many ways, Counterpoint is the quintessential college mag: offbeat, alternative, somewhat irreverent, but overall dedicated to promoting individual thought and casual popular scholarship, a sort of New York Times style section for the sneakers-and-blue-jeans set. We publish eight monthly issues each year that cover everything from politics to parties, and in the process we hope to present a snapshot of independent thought from both college campuses.

Counterpoint meets twice a week at 7 p.m.: on Mondays at MIT in W20-443 and on Thursdays at Wellesley in Café Hoop.

Counterpoint is funded by the MIT Undergraduate Association Financial Board and Wellesley SOFC and the generosity of donors. For information on advertising with us, click here. The opinions presented in Counterpoint are the writers’ own; MIT and Wellesley are not responsible for the content of the magazine.