Word: absurdity
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...than most other universities. In fact, an undercurrent of conservative traditionalism exists on the Wellesley campus when it comes to sex, dating, relationships, and even marriage. While Wellesley is highly tolerant of differing views on sexuality—and this is a wonderful thing—it is absurd to stereotype its student body as decadently promiscuous or choc full of lesbians uniformly hostile to stay-at-home motherhood...
...During the post-lecture discussion, Rothenberg Professor of English and American Literature Homi K. Bhabha praised Burgin’s “resistance of the absurd drive to novelty and acceleration,” and the way his work “continually reflects on both media and mediation...
...puts it best: “School, to tennis players, really sucks.”While her parents saw her education as a back-up plan, her tennis friends, many of whom never completed high school, were baffled by the decision.“They view college as absurd,” she said. “In the tennis world, if you go to college, you’re considered almost a failure or a total loser. They say to me, ‘What are you doing? You’re not a part of our world...
College Republican activism like this, that channels the absurd and outrageous merely to push the envelope, commits a tremendous disservice to the very cause they attempt to promote...
...compared with the free media rental and extensive conference space to be found at Hilles. I spend hours every week working to fit as many student group events into the rooms in SOCH as possible: Kuumba rehearsals, HCAP conferences, CityStep events, EMT courses, HIDO movie screenings. I find it absurd and frustrating to read in The Crimson that student groups are not interested in using the space when my records of room reservations prove that student organizations are requesting rooms at the SOCH just as frequently as they are asking for bookings in Emerson or Harvard Hall. No one ever...