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...Roger Ebert's Overlooked Film Festival, that's precisely the kind of underdog spirit the crowd lives for - a spirit driven in part by their hunger for great films, but also partly by a desire to thumb their noses at movie studio executives who claim to know what audiences want. As Ebert said during a post-film discussion, reacting to a suggestion that a studio didn't think one of the festival's 12 selected titles would appeal to the youth market: "We cannot be held captive to a bunch of illiterate 16-year-olds...
...possible obstacle, as the House system separates students into “microcosms.” Although smaller communities are present within the College, built through residences, concentrations, classes, and extracurricular activities, there is no “overarching sense of community throughout the College that other schools claim support their honor codes,” according to the report.Bean, who is now director of academic resources at Haverford, said the size of an institution influences the sense of community that is important to the success of an honor code.“The trust on which the success...
...crosses in front of the Science Center depicting lives loss from abortion: all “non-violent, peaceful” ways of spreading the pro-life word, Grizzle says. The exact definition of the term pro-life word, however, can get a little hazy. A recent SFC poster claiming safe, legal abortions could save a life every 6 minutes, purports the SFC catch-phrase: “Pro-life? So are we.” Elena has done her duty of generating debate, and both sides of the issue claim to be pro-life. With the creation...
Those who label AACF as a discriminatory group claim that if the UC were to overlook the fact that the AACF only allows Christians to be officers, then it would have no reason to deny funding to all-male finals clubs and fraternities. But to anyone who understands what it truly means to be a Christian, these two distinctions are not comparable. All-male groups are discriminatory because they exclude based on factors one cannot naturally change—such as gender. No matter how hard I try, I cannot naturally become a man, so I cannot join...
...wrong. Swept back to center stage and his traditional role as the national Cassandra, Le Pen has found supporters flocking to him anew in the wake of the suburban Muslim riots of November, and two months of violent youth protests over labor reform this year. Able to claim he'd long denounced the mass immigration and bleeding heart permissiveness he has blamed the rioting and demonstrations on, Le Pen has been effective in mocking de Villiers as a calculating opportunist - or, as his daughter and potential successor called de Villiers, a political "vulture...