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...Boylston Caf?...
...less Yard-savvy café patron, but when horrid images of Spanish A creep back from alcohol-induced selective amnesia its location crystallizes in the cerebral fog. “Yo hablo bueno español, por que tu me dio una C?” The menu at Boylston is not as cultured as its patrons, who hail from such departments as literature and classics, though it does offer sushi for $5 and lasagna for the same. The red booth benches are absurdly comfortable and quick to conform to the rear of any Klondike-munching customer. There is little...
Literature held its meeting in a narrow, coffin-like room in the Boylston Hall basement where prospective concentrators got a sample thesis proposal packet as well as the requisite handbook. In its Science Center office, history and science provided a comfortable sofa and chairs for 10 or so interested first-years. But the Chinese takeout whose odor wafted from an office room was not for students but faculty only. Religion held its meeting in a Barker Center classroom; again, no food...
Such issues were revisited last Saturday in Boylston Hall, where a mini-film festival and series of faculty discussions sought to address Disney’s cultural and commercial impact on America. Opening with the critical documentary Mickey Mouse Monopoly, the film festival—entitled “Gender, Ethnicity and Disney”—came out early against Disney’s powerful influence...
According to the 2001 documentary Mickey Mouse Monopoly: Disney, Childhood and Corporate Power—screened to a 20-member audience at Boylston Hall Saturday—this familiar scene from Walt Disney’s Aladdin perpetuates stereotypes of women as little more than temptresses...