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...Finally, since Harvard commands a large endowment and a great ability to attract the most promising students, the University might use this moment as a way of trying to effect change in the college athletic culture. This is not to say that we should have no athletic program, merely that we should be happy with a mediocre one (that may become excellent organically). Perhaps paradoxically, by accepting mediocrity in this area, Harvard can resume striving for excellence in areas that matter more...
...edited, marketed, and removed from their control. But he also examines how the viewer is affected by film: Newell’s parents can endlessly watch footage of him at a pizza party, but the repeat viewing is merely a realization of their own powerlessness. They are unable to effect Newell’s life in the unrecordable present. The entire book is caught up in this cinematic feel and unsuccessfully tries to merge this paralyzing force with a punchy, incisive style.The prose alternates colloquial language with glamorized descriptions of the urban, partially adopting the interior monologue of each character...
...Orientalist fantasy. Though LHO has often borrowed costumes in the past, each outfit in this year’s production has been specifically made by four dedicated costume designers. Cut from various poly-blend fabrics intended to mimic silks, linens, and satins, the costumes were designed to create an effect onstage that is just as lavish and radiant as the imagined originals while remaining conscious of cost. According to Keun Jung Cho, a costume designer who is also a first-year student at the Graduate School of Design, the flowing robes and bright colors are inspired by both traditional Chinese...
...final club space clear. Both are exclusive sites to which access is desired by many but granted to few. Mellor also writes of the importance of money and social status for entrance into both sites and of the rituals that surround them, claiming that final clubs have a negative effect on campus life. “Final clubs do have an impact on the way we present ourselves to be acceptable sexually,” she says. “I wanted to link power hierarchy, structural inequality and show how they manifest themselves on the bodies of real women...
...earth and Mother Nature, myself included," Gutt says. "A lot of people up here may be more sympathetic to the objective. It's a social objective many people can share." But, he adds: "I don't think it makes the methods any more acceptable. There are ways to effect real change without resorting to crimes of violence...