Seven Years Later, Average Johnson Still Captures the UChicago Zeitgeist

Seven Years Later, Average Johnson Still Captures the UChicago Zeitgeist

I first heard Views from the Reg in my first year, at the Ethics Bowl’s Halloween party. In hindsight, this was the most fitting place to hear this album: Ethics Bowl is notoriously nerdy and philosophically pedantic. As I later learned, it was tradition for the fourth-year hosting the party to put the album on for background music. What I first thought was generic rap music quickly transformed with the lyric “Fuck Harvard!” and was followed by …