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...book out this fall, Beer and Circus: How Big-Time College Sports Is Crippling Undergraduate Education (Henry Holt), Indiana University professor Murray Sperber compares the American university of 2000 with Rome circa A.D. 100. To keep the populace happy, corrupt Emperors used bread and circuses. In the modern university, administrators use beer and circuses--or Division I athletics and the binge drinking that accompanies it--to distract students from their crowded lecture classes and inattentive professors. Sperber argues that the ncaa, the advertisers who profit from college sports and the Animal House undergrads are all complicit in the deteriorating quality...
Breakfast, served in the dining room, sun porch, garden--or even in bed--includes blended juices, salmon cakes, scrambled eggs and scallions, cheese hominy grits, corn bread, fried apples and turkey sausage. Or visitors can stroll to the corner and enjoy African, Caribbean and Southern fare at the Akwaaba Cafe...
Michael Sullivan, who first came to Harvard Square in 1969, has spent the last 11 years working at the Bread and Jams day-time drop-in shelter in the Old Baptist Church. He describes a peaceful coexistence between pitsters and students--except for those times when Harvard students, drunk and stumbling home from a party or a bar, make the off-hand derogatory statement, or perhaps are out-and-out rude. These clashes occur about four or five times a year, according to Sullivan, usually at the beginning of the semester when Harvard students are most likely to be partying...
These incidents don't appear to be part of any ongoing hostility though. According to Sullivan, the pit kids don't begrudge Harvard students their relative wealth or opportunity. Harvard students have even worked at Bread and Jams through the First-Year Urban Program this fall. What is most prevalent is a studied separation, with students and pit kids keeping their worlds apart. Harvard students trip to class rarely acknowledging their peers learning about life the hard...
Gore's initial response promised that the night would hold few fireworks. Gore stuck to his bread and butter strength--mastery of the issues--while Bush tried to be a straight-talking Texan...