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...What? Sam Adams was never president? I guess next you’ll tell me that I can’t honor Justice Thurgood J. Icehouse on Supreme Court...
...argue that she’s a New Yorker, as half the school seems to be. I doubt she’s from the city, but rather from some random town in Long Island or something. Her room isn’t eccentric enough that I’d guess she’s from a major city...
...means. As professors prepare to teach their courses, dutifully designing the syllabus, coursepack readings and problem sets, they should also design a concise rubric delineating the performance expected from students. Professors must explain these expectations at the beginning of each course, so that students will no longer have to guess what their grades signify; they will no longer feel that their work was judged so subjectively—often seemingly arbitrarily—by TFs who have widely divergent conceptions of the course’s standards...
...Doughty compares violent interpretations of music to people who look at drug use as an adventure. He mocks, “I sure [looked at drugs that way] when I was a kid in the suburbs and had no access to drugs. But when I did get them, guess what I found? A warm and fuzzy feeling...
Doughty explained to me that it is not so much “danger” that sells, but the “idea of danger”—“I guess people that try to espouse the danger program are trying to defend themselves...they want to put up a front.” Record labels sell us danger because danger, ironically, makes us feel safe. Ultimately, behind all of the diverse emotional responses good music can evoke, Doughty contends that we like what we like because, somehow, it makes us feel good...