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...involved in the curriculum’s implementation since the Faculty voted in favor of the Gen Ed legislation in May 2007. A couple of hours later, he e-mailed The Crimson explaining, “Sorry if I was tongue tied at the gen ed event...it is a really promising launch.” After Menand and Simmons spoke, they participated in a question-and-answer session. Of the four people asking questions, at least two worked for the College. R.J. Jenkins, the Advising Program Office’s sophomore advising director, asked for Menand to expand more...
Eric Coss, a teenager in New York's Delaware County, managed to buy his first derby car, a little four-cylinder he decorated with markers, this summer for $150, plus $6 for parts. His reason for entering the county's Aug. 21 event was simple: "You can smash your car without getting in trouble...
...Signals still stands out because of the gravity of its subject matter as well as the importance of the message all the newly minted freshmen take back to their dorms after the event. In both categories, unfortunately, the program falls short. Sex Signals points incoming freshmen in the wrong direction by how casually it treats both sexual activity and rape, by the amount of sex it implies is occurring on campus, and by failing to adequately address personal responsibility to make smart choices...
...Sometimes hot girls in their underwear make my pants a little tight,” the show feels more like a live version of Knocked Up than a program designed to decrease sexual assault. In fact, making light of this serious subject matter in the university-sponsored event actually seemed to encourage the students to laugh at attitudes that are present during sexual assault. When one of the actors mimicked a male stereotype about sex yelling, “We see what we want and we go get it! Yeah?,” a male freshman in the crowd yelled...
...condoms in every dorm) might give the impression that everyone on campus is having sex. The cavalier attitude expressed by the university toward sexual activity could be just enough to nudge some freshmen into sexual activity. During my first year, the Freshman Dean’s Office hosted an event called, “Hooking Up: Hot Hints For Making Your Harvard (Or Future) Sex Life Great” billed as “An All-Out Guide to Sex and Sexuality” with “sexxxxxy suggestions” to be given.) After all the sex talk...