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First offensive. On Oct. 13, the Harvard Lampoon published a parody of The Crimson. On the second page, snugly set between "Calvin & Hobbes" and "I, Argus Aardvark," set a picture of Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III fornicating, since he is married, with Ziggy, an asexual looking cartoon...
...forum sponsored by the Black Students Association (BSA), Rev. Calvin O. Butts III repeated the message that gained him national prominence last summer when he rolled a bulldozer over albums by such rappers as 2 Live Crew and N.W.A...
Taking her publication as but one example, Song goes on to argue that racism is just everywhere--sort of like those ads for Calvin Klein underwear. She claims that whether we acknowledge it or not, we're "thinking racially" when we carry out such innocent tasks as house-hunting or choosing a radio station. We can only imagine the extension of this argument: "Whether we recognize it or not--when we balance our checkbooks, when we vacuum our bedroom, when we choose the brown rice pancakes over the baked potato bar we are thinking racially...
...Calvin Jones stood among the crowd of onlookers as the blaze demolished the school. "When I saw the school burning, tears just came rolling down my face," he says. "My father went to that school, and three of my brothers had graduated from there, and I was getting ready to graduate...
Three months later, Jones, Reed and another teenager were arrested for arson. All three were tried and convicted; Jones and Reed were sentenced to prison; the other youth was released because he is a juvenile. Why did they do it? "There was no reason," says Calvin. "I'm just sorry I didn't do more to stop it." Perhaps it was just another attempt to change the bitter reality of Lake Providence...