Word: overheard
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...Overheard in Kirkland Dining Hall...
...went excellently," Wall said. "I overheard everyone saying they had a great time, even if they had to wait outside. It shows that it's a great time, and people should go to Paradise to party...
...comprised mainly of Yale alumni. Dubious. Who wants bipartisan seating? You might as well seat Rep. Barney Frank '61 (D-Mass.) next to Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.). So we did what many other misassigned people (and there seemed a fair number of us, judging from the numerous overheard complaints) did--we went over to the Harvard side of the stadium and tried to sit with our peers...
...overheard conversations involve looks-except the conversations about gunfights, which remind us that violence is a possible outcome of any story unfolding on screen. It works. I constantly expected someone to shoot themselves or someone else in a fit of enigmatic French passion...
Another student, Alana Young, a Filipino American, says she left the sorority in 1998 because of racist attitudes. She overheard a sister say she had been taught that "n_____s work in the house and Mexicans work in the yard." Young says she saw a Mexican-American member of the sorority leave a meeting in tears after the sisters overruled her objection to putting a Confederate flag on a T shirt. Young finally quit after sorority members criticized her for giving her phone number to a black football player...