Word: answerability
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...most perplexing issues. It fills my heart with glee when I overhear students arguing at breakfast over weighty questions that I bring up in my columns, like “If our noses run and our feet smell, are we built upside down?” (The answer, of course, is yes). Also, don’t even get me started on the pure rush of adrenaline and exhilaration that I feel when I get the freedom to publish certain racy words that you would think would be deemed too inappropriate for a formal Harvard publication. “Toilet...
...Lampoon Band” in a mock-up of the “Double Dare” franchise that aired on the Fox and Nickelodeon networks from 1987 to 1993. Each team took turns guessing at a series of trivia questions. If either group was unable to answer these questions—for example, when OK Go failed to correctly name its own band members—they competed in a “physical challenge” against the other team. Audience members had the rare privilege of watching the members of OK Go (and the slightly more common...
Being saddened instead of frightened and disgusted by the everyday view of “homelessness” is a fine first step, but the realization is wasted if it is rooted in a superficial definition of homelessness. Seegars is right in saying there’s no easy answer to homelessness, but if students feel there are no actions they can take and are therefore going to stop at empathy, the least they can do is more carefully reexamine the assumptions they are making about the people they think they are emphasizing with...
Ultimately, blanking out the offensive words, playing them backwards, or covering them over with sound effects does not change the message of the songs, nor does it eliminate the misogyny and homophobia that have contaminated hip hop. Censorship is not the answer to these problems—dialogue is. Simmons has the clout to force music executives and artists to clean up rap, but he has not made any genuine efforts to do so in the past. He should follow the advice he gives others in his new self-help book: “Stop Frontin’ and Start...
...questions about alcohol because of my knowledge in chemistry,” Gaglani says. “They were always asking questions like ‘Is it okay to take a Tylenol after drinking alcohol to relieve a headache?’ I wanted to be able to answer my friends and whoever had those concerns. DAPA gave me this opportunity.” Tao said her DAPA training has helped her most in aiding those within her social network. “I personally was very surprised about how many people came to me with questions...