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...Saturday, the Class of 1978—who call themselves “the blizzard brigade”—enjoyed a soiree in a white room decorated with snowflake balloons to commemorate the Great Blizzard...
...couple of the readings dwell upon the figure of the wrong-headed, young, white man, unable to acknowledge his racial privilege, the pieces encourage not only hackneyed white guilt but male, middle-class, Christian, heterosexual, and able-bodied guilt as well. Likewise, the freshmen were exposed to a poetic call for revolution and thereby were informed of the existence of a “war between races...
...called the Bureau of Study Counsel and asked if I could “turn myself in” as a Net addict. But some helpful pamphlets on time management aside, they didn’t have anything to tell me about my condition. My counselor apologetically suggested, “You could google it.” University Mental Health Services proved similarly forthcoming. I gave my number to someone rumored to be an expert on the subject, but he has yet to call...
...know in those situations that we’re not going to let a team back in the game. It was a little sloppy, and it’ll be addressed.” That total included two personal fouls on the secondary, one of which was a call for a helmet-to-helmet hit by senior safety Ryan Barnes in the fourth quarter that set up Cornell’s final touchdown. On 3rd-and-10, Barnes hit the Big Red’s Shane Kilcoyne during an incomplete pass, drawing the flag. “Its protection...
...Kafkaesque procedures like those in Mississippi—where people must actually call in to request a request form for an absentee ballot—that convince me that unforgiving voting laws are greater culprits in low youth turnout than political disinterest. In a recent IOP Survey, conducted last spring, 72 percent of surveyed college students said they would be voting in the general election, a 10-point increase relative to 2000. Meanwhile, ask a college student how he can vote absentee: According to the 2003 Survey, one in three students will tell you he has no idea...