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...buck hair styles (I'm applying for UC grant to start an Anti-Tendril Association), wayyyy too many freshmen... One of my friends spotted a poster for the College Democrats reading "What Would Harry Potter Do? Vote for Al Gore!" Ummm, hi? That's my slogan. And Harry Potter, even if he was old enough, would most certainly stay away from all things involving the American electorate... Remember last week I postulated that the reason Christina Aguilera canceled all her concerts was because she was smoking too much bud? Well, a friend on the inside wrote in: "Actually...
...Restored, is a series of pencil portraits copied from the drawings of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, the neoclassical French artist. The copied drawings are quite convincing: trained as a restorer, Gilje works exactly to scale, using materials as much like those used in the original works as possible. She even signs them "Ingres." But these are not exact copies...
...Though amusement alone seems an acceptable end in the art world these days, Gilje drawings are more then simple fun. Her accomplishment is that she makes the viewer reexamine the act of seeing. Because Gilje alternates more subtle "restorations" with overt ones, even an uninformed viewer will catch onto her game. Gilje's work makes you realize how quickly we scan images and, as a result, how much we miss. She asks that we reconsider the act of looking at paintings from the past, and perhaps art in general. No small mental task, but one well worth the effort, both...
...Office of Undergraduate Admissions has done much to make our collective student body span across religious, ethnic, class and geographic lines with acknowledged diversity. But if we were to examine the "families" that we establish for ourselves here at Harvard, by means of our friendships, our romantic relationships and even our blocking groups, it would become glaringly obvious that we don't branch out much from that with which we are most familiar...
Wealth, in contrast, is most certainly not--even though Harvard students' diversity of experience and opinion is due to our broad range of financial privilege at least as much as to racial or religious diversity. No one talks about our economic diversity, however, because discussing it makes us terribly ill at ease. Why does it make us so uncomfortable to talk about our differences in wealth and class status? Could it be that the rich at Harvard finally feel guilty about their advantages and privileges in ways that they have never before been forced to consider? Or that the penniless...