Word: cliquishness
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...life.“It’s not weird for me to walk around here and be by myself,” says Hattier. “The students here don’t walk around in groups…at Tulane it was kind of cliquish.”ACADEMIC ANTAGONISMSAlthough Tulane students say they found Harvard’s curriculum to be more approachable than its parties, Harvard students still managed to unsettle them in the classroom—not with brilliant comments, but with their competitive attitudes.“Academically I definitely feel that...
...campaign have come droves of promises for town-hall meetings, presidential and vice-presidential office hours, and so on.Lost is a recognition that the council fails not because students are alienated from its workings—though it is true that the UC is a privy group of cliquish, self-selecting busybodies. The council has failed because the things the UC can plausibly deliver (through advocacy or its own budget)—Harvard-Yale shuttles, burrito feeds in the library, a hokey state fair, or Springfest—are mere side-shows to everyday student life. And students realize...
...almost embarrassed to introduce a friend by (merely) claiming a shared House. Whereas at Oxford and Cambridge—the universities upon which our system was modelled—students are still identified as residents of certain colleges, at Harvard you are more likely to be identified by your cliquish social club or cutthroat political group. There is little community, little sense of shared space...
There is, in many ways, an air of unreality about West Point. Says Ted Sullivan, '79, now a New York stockbroker: "The difference between the regular Army and West Point is light-years." In the Army, West Pointers are sometimes regarded as aloof and cliquish, called ring knockers for ostentatiously flashing their class rings. Non-West Pointers complain about the so-called West Point Protective Association in the Pentagon that favors and promotes academy grads...
...Still, for your hard-core Broadway devotees - basically old people, Manhattanites, Jews and homosexuals (I qualify in half of these categories, won't tell you which) - Tony Night possesses a cliquish glamour that the more popular TV ceremonies can't touch. It has the snazziest pace, the most articulate acceptance speeches and the most, and most tolerable, production numbers. On this year's show there were eight, one from each of the nominated new musicals and revivals, including "Wonderful Town," an Encores! concert that transferred to Broadway this season...