Word: carsey
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This time the festival attracted visitors from Britain, Denmark, Israel, Syria, Australia and China. Even Hollywood showed up: ABC, NBC, TNT, Warner Bros. Television and Carsey-Werner all sent emissaries. Some were looking to snag writers and actors for the mainstream entertainment maw. Others came to join the collegial ferment. Says Janet Blake, a veep at Walt Disney Television: "Where else can you have a lively discussion with Jimmy Breslin"--who presented a savagely witty skit about Newt Gingrich haranguing his first wife in her hospital bed--"and two minutes later be talking to Tony Kushner? Only in Louisville...
...Carsey Yee, a graduate student and resident tutor in Adams House, says "even if there were no concept of affirmative action, hiring would still be done on a racial basis. You'd have a bunch of 35 year-old white boys hiring another 35 year-old white boy, because people hire the people they feel most comfortable with...
...sending this mass-mailed letter, the authoris "generating and propagating stereotypes aboutthe gay community," according to Carsey Yee, theAdams House designated tutor for gay and lesbianissues...
...speakers--Master of Adams House Robert J. Kiely, Pforzheimer House resident J. Lewis Ford '97, Mather House resident E. Michelle Drake '97, Adams House resident tutor Carsey Yee, Dunster House resident Adam D. Feldman '95 and co-organizer Philip R. Munger '95, who lives off-campus--roused the crowd with their repeated condemnations of Jewett'sdecision...
...Carsey's charisma also comes from the fact that "he believes that people are inherently good," says Kocher. "He has a lot of optimism. It's his cheerfulness that keeps him going." Carsey is cheerful, zany, and Canadian. "He's from Northern Ontario, but I don't think that's where his charisma comes from," says Kocher. Yee concurs...