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When I walked into a half-empty Agassiz Theatre this past Friday night to see the Harvard S.T.A.G.E. production of “Footloose,” I must admit my thoughts turned to the end-of-comp Crimson festivities and Quisque Jam I was missing. But a few hours later, my half-hearted wish to be elsewhere had morphed into a mixture of elation for a night well-spent and of pity for all those who had missed out on a truly amazing show.From May 5 to 13, “Footloose” jazzes up the pillared Agassiz...
...Major League Baseball are encouraging the overmedication of their children with drugs like Adderall. These find a sense of worth vicariously through their children, instilling the competitive mentality that has, in large part, led students to commit these abuses. The problem is that these parents are not willing to admit that their children are simply not smart enough to get accepted into the elite, Ivy-League Universities they dreamed about sending them to. When President Bush declared in his State of the Union address some years ago that steroids in professional sports “Send the wrong message...
...that she plagiarized passages from another author’s work—it’s the fact that she got caught.Well, that and the fact that she scored a six-figure book contract.According to the Center for Academic Integrity at Duke University, 40 percent of college students admit to “cut-and-paste plagiarism.”If several rounds of editors at Viswanathan’s publishing house, Little, Brown, couldn’t weed the words of other writers from the sophomore’s novel before it went to press, how can professors...
...beginning of the original edition of “Inherit the Wind,” which premiered in 1955, states explicitly that the Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee’s play is not history. Sure, names were changed, characters had been added, and I had to admit that Clarence Darrow, whom I had idolized, was probably not nearly as dashing as Spencer Tracy, but the plot itself stayed relatively true to the infamous 1925 Scopes Trial over the teaching of evolution—leading me to believe that the evolution debate was what the play was all about...
...beginning of the original edition of “Inherit the Wind,” which premiered in 1955, states explicitly that the Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee’s play is not history. Sure, names were changed, characters had been added, and I had to admit that Clarence Darrow, whom I had idolized, was probably not nearly as dashing as Spencer Tracy, but the plot itself stayed relatively true to the infamous 1925 Scopes Trial over the teaching of evolution—leading me to believe that the evolution debate was what the play was all about...