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...Research on another alternative exam, this one written by Robert Sternberg, a psychologist at Yale University, asks students to perform tasks reflecting their creativity and practicality. In one section, students write the caption for a cartoon or design the logo for a company. In another, they are asked how they would handle requesting a letter of recommendation from a teacher or sharing rent payments on an apartment...
Many would find it absurd to challenge Pluto's planetary qualifications. It circles our sun, it has a moon (Charon, the boatman of the Styx), it is roughly spherical, it has an atmosphere--and it has a cartoon dog named after it. If that's not enough for a planet, what...
...they battle tongues, lips, thumbs marching stoutly in formation, and eyes riding hands and feet into battle, their toes and fingers blazing like machine guns. Ultimately, Mutant Aliens gives Plympton the opportunity to cram into an 80-minute time span every ingredient that one could ask for in a cartoon: blood, gore, sex, fast cars, an orbiting billboard the size of Oregon, and a peppy Christian ditty titled “Can’t Drag Race With Jesus...
...understand that this cartoon was intended as some sort of joke, but the implications inherent in such a representation demean and objectify women nonetheless. Presumably a woman's head could not possibly signify the requisite intellectual capacity to be president of Harvard; it seems that all of our icons of genius are male. The objectification of a female, anorexic body sprawled across the pages of a supposedly serious newspaper is even more unconscionable...
Diane L. Rosenfeld '96 is a lecturer on Women's Studies. The cartoon can be viewed under "Presidential Comics" at www.thecrimson.com...