This column, my first for THE HOYA, was originally going to be a rather blunt criticism of Vernon Macklin.

I was going to begin with a quote from an article written during Macklin’s sophomore year of high school comparing him to Kevin Garnett, and I was then going to explain just how baffling that comparison has proven to be.

Many Hoyas, either in a high school civics class or in a college course on American government, certainly learn that the U.S. Constitution prohibits Congress from bestowing titles of nobility upon U.S. citizens.