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Because we have a relatively small staff (30 callers plus four directors), and because of the Phonathon’s relatively informal atmosphere (each shift takes a 15-minute break for Phonathon-subsidized snacks), callers get to know each other pretty well...
...Council representatives and aspiring eastern European bankers. Snacktime discussions can take a little while to get going at the start of the school year, but by October you can smile conspiratorially at a whole new set of people when you pass them on the street. I was at a shift during the tragically brief few hours when it appeared that Al Gore ’69 had won Florida, and again when one of my fellow callers was rebuked for calling a recent graduate during the season finale of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” (thanks...
...interview with Shift magazine, you said you only had one mountain of cocaine and you were working on getting more. How much cocaine qualifies as a mountain...
...cultural infantilization creep up on us? In The Disappearance of Childhood, a wonderful little book first published in 1982, Neil Postman, a New York University professor who died this month, identified a shift from a culture based on literature - on reading - to one based on the image. In a preliterate world, there's no distinction between children and adults. Look at a Bruegel painting, and you see adults eating, drinking, groping, necking, together with their children. Literacy changed all that. Reading has to be learned; it separates the world of the child from that of the adult. But children...
Council member Justin R. Chapa ’04, a resident of Pforzheimer, spoke in favor of the funding shift at Sunday’s council meeting, but said that he received many angry e-mails from other residents of his House...