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...debate over the snow phallus is not the first time college students have applied free-speech arguments to similarly degrading examples. For example, at Wesleyan University last fall, College President Douglas S. Bennet finally banned the practice of “chalking,” a euphemism for students scribbling smut on campus sidewalks, and a mainstream medium of expression at a lot of other schools nationwide. Bennet worried that the chalked slogans on Wesleyan’s campus were getting too obscene; some made pornographic references to faculty members. Opponents of his decision equate the chalked obscenities with free...
...musical groups, he revealed a different shade of his vocal talent. Instead of trying to imitate an entire strings section, he let the Baroque Chamber Orchestra assume that position in the evening’s first act, and occupied the position of imitating solo violinist, enlisting cellist Kate Bennet in an ethereally beautiful, if entirely unconventional duet...
...Wilco. To be sure, the banjo isn’t featured on all of Wilco’s tracks, but it remains their most distinctive feature, and the cornerstone of their unique no-depression, “alt-country” timbre. And when multi-instrumentalist/technician Jay Bennet (i.e. the banjo guy) left Wilco earlier this year, so too did the all-defining Wilco gimmick. Bennet left behind a deflated effigy of a band, an artifact which in its present incarnation is almost unrecognizable (save Jeff Tweedy’s unmistakably textured vocals). In a sense, the whole quiditas...
Techno-savvy fans have embraced the hybrids, flooding Internet chat rooms with talk of torque and throttle response, boasting about mileage. "Kick Some Gas!" urges one site, Priusenvy.com Senator Robert Bennet of Utah, chairman of the Republican High-Tech Task Force, fills his Insight's gas tank once a month. "It's the ideal commuter car," he says. But he has yet to persuade his fellow legislators to make the switch...
...were serving deep," Weiss said. "We kept the ball out of the hands of their good middle blocker [sophomore Carissa Bennet]...their ball control just wasn't there...