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...Under the new budget, the dining hall experience will change slightly. In addition to the elimination of hot breakfast, dinner will be just warm, and lunch will be tepid. In order to maximize the efficiency of the budget, all swipers will now be considered full-fledged concentration advisers, with full study-card signing rights. Rising food costs have forced us to severely reduce the menu options, most of which will now be based around plain bread. These cuts do not mean, of course, that we are prepared to compromise on accommodations, and students with special dietary needs are strongly encouraged...
...teenage obsession, Alison Byrne Fields wrote to John Hughes to tell him how much she loved The Breakfast Club. It was 1985, Byrne Fields was 15, and she watched the movie so many times that she lost count. So she told Hughes how accurately his film portrayed high school, how it said exactly what she was feeling, and how much she liked Judd Nelson. (She thought he was hot.) Byrne Fields was having problems of her own - not big problems, though they seemed big at the time - and she told Hughes how much it helped to know that someone...
...Instead, she got an invitation to join the "official" Breakfast Club, and a form letter signed by the famous director. "I was like, 'Um, excuse me? A form letter?'" Byrne Fields had just confessed her secrets and he didn't have the decency to respond. So she wrote him again and complained. (Read "John Hughes, R.I.P...
...Today, Byrne Fields is 39, lives in Washington, D.C., and works as the managing director for DDB Issues & Advocacy. She no longer looks or acts like the awkward teenager who penned those heartfelt letters, and she threw out her old Breakfast Club VHS tape years ago. And yet, when she heard of the director's sudden death last week at the age of 59, she felt like she had lost a family member. She wrote about her relationship with Hughes on her blog as a way to sort out her emotions. "I did it just for me, but I knew...
...Hughes showed teenagers that light, with a rose-tinted glow. His Molly trilogy - Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club and Pretty in Pink, all starring actual teen Molly Ringwald - mined the emotional convulsions that make every kid feel he or she is the first lonely explorer on the dark side of the moon. In his mid-30s, Hughes got spookily in sync with the swooning narcissism of adolescence: that teachers are torturers; that parents are sweet but don't quite understand; that friends and lovers are two distinct species, one domestic, one alien; that I feel all these things...