Original Article: http://dartreview.com/archives/1998/10/07/how_horrible_is_bill_kartalopoulos.php
Wednesday, October 7, 1998
· Very horrible indeed. This overwrought narcissist was, somehow, the Graphics Editor of The Dartmouth Review a couple of years back (the editor at the time just completed a six-month jail term if that helps to explain anything), then turned into a College dupe, dyed his hair an iridescent orange and pierced his face. He then contributed a bit of cheap vitriol to the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, attacking the Review (This was after he had applied for Editor-in-Chief and been rebuked).
· The Dartmouth campus was thankfully relieved of Kartalopoulos' increasingly horrible presence for a year or two, while he hung out in lower Manhattan, fancying himself a professional writer.
· Kartalopoulus has now reappeared on the Dartmouth campus, though he now prefers to go by the playfully boyish moniker 'Billy.' He is afflicted with all the eccentric self-absorption of Woody Allen with none of the redeeming intellect, charm, or wit. He wrote a column in Thursday's Daily Dartmouth:
· I? Write for The Dartmouth? My words appear among the musings of semi-literate attention-seekers [Billy Boy — this is you!] who feel the need to put pen to paper when a joke told in Food Court goes over a little too well? I? An adult among children? A published writer? Who had has had two music reviews published in a small press magazine of some note? I who made a home in New York City, developed a drug habit and endured a troubled love affair, all in the space of one year? Could I resign myself to this?'
· Billy K. has now apparently rid himself of said troubled love affair and dangerous drug habit and returns to Hanover to spread his unique brand of self-love and baseless narcissism. We at The Dartmouth Review welcome his return; with the retirement of James Freedman, we need the material.