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...flooded with human excrement. A normal person may consider sewage in the gym to be less of a service than a threat to public health, but that’s a naïve dichotomy. A threat to public health can also be a service. Yes, the service that Harvard provides through such sanitation (or lack thereof) in the river houses is that same service cited by many fathers and grandfathers retelling their tales of childhood: building character.All around the river houses, stories of the success of Harvard’s “Character-Building Initiative?...
...Greetings indie weirdos," host Rainn Wilson said to open the show. "Here come the first motherf-----s to present the first motherf-----g award." At the chronically casual Spirit Awards, celebs wear jeans, snack on popcorn on the blue (yes, blue) carpet, duck into porta-potties parked on the sand, and usually wrap up all their low-budget revelry by dark. But this year, as a party-starved Hollywood convened under a leaky tent on the beach in Santa Monica, Calif., the annual frolic over independent film seemed especially, well, spirited. With quirky low-budget movies like Juno...
...team. “I’m pleased with the way we started,” Miller said. “I thought we were pretty focused and pretty disciplined and we put the ball away. Do we have some things that we need to work on? Yes. But I like the way they played.” The Crimson controlled the entire game, rarely allowing Holy Cross to have any scoring opportunities. Harvard kept the ball primarily in its attacking zone which allowed the goal count to skyrocket. Sophomore Sara Flood posted an impressive three goals...
...racism and the punishments doled out to racists, comparing other types of persecution to racism elicits uproar. Other marginalized groups, such as homosexuals or obese people, identify their causes with the civil rights struggle to gain legitimacy. But Ford cautions against comparing something like gay marriage to miscegenation. Yes, it grabs people’s attention, and it may even silence opponents, but ultimately the comparison serves to undermine everyone’s struggle for greater rights and acceptance. The playing of the race card dilutes the next hand’s potency; racism becomes a nebulous, meaningless phrase.And...
...multiracial organization, first and foremost,” Coles says. “All that people seem to know about BlackCAST is that, ‘Oh, you’re that theatre group that only has black people in it and only does black plays.’ Yes, we only do black plays, but the other part of that is completely invalid, and I don’t know where that comes from. A third of our cast for our spring production last year was white, and I think that says something...