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...first surprise of a night that held many, most of the impressive apparatus on stage turned out to belong to openers Keith Fullerton Whitman and Greg Davis, who hunched over looping decks to produce artfully droning, clicking, shearing, squealing ambient suites. As the genial, bearded gents accreted countless sound fragments—seemingly random shards that synched perfectly with the epileptic video collages projected above them—they accomplished the estimable feat of getting the audience genuinely excited for the comparatively familiar pop craft of the Books...
...construct a wooden pit large enough to accommodate 600 people, complete with a twenty foot-high Plexiglass-encased DJ booth, the top of which supported two foam machines on oscillating arms dispensing a Cascade® of 250,000 cubic feet of foam. By the next day, the entire apparatus was gone thanks to a tear-down crew that didn’t sleep. And yet, in exchange for these efforts, The Crimson responded with an inflammatory front page article focusing exclusively on a minute portion of partygoers who reacted to the foam (“Lather Suds Rub Partiers Wrong...
Senior Gift’s recruitment apparatus has two arms: one that pursues donations of a minimum $10, and another that asks for a minimum $250. Like any good fundraising program, Senior Gift grants higher-level donors an honorific—Associates...
...such demands of the University, so I did not actively participate in an alternative gift. I was not identified or screened or rated as a potential Associates-level donor, so I am not subject to that series of arguments. I am merely a target for the formidable peer pressure apparatus of the participation drive...
Perhaps the College seeks a similar mandate, some kind of vague demonstration of the student body’s confidence. And maybe they’re right. Maybe their desire for support really does warrant a non-stop apparatus of peer pressure, incentives, and class division year after year. Maybe it does warrant turning friends into pitchmen, dangling influence, and telling me that another student’s symbolic donation means more than mine. And so maybe, when I graduate, I will not crumple the letters from the Alumni Association that will begin arriving Friday, June...