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...their friends, either. Wonderlandbrochures are full happy young people inbright-colored collared shirts hanging out withtheir best Wonderland buddies. Truth is, nobodyhas any Wonderland buddies. "I mean you recognizepeople, but you don't make friends," Wayne says.There's nothing communal about wonderland. Peoplego, bet, watch the races on a TV screen, cash in,go home. if they could do it without goinganywhere, they would...
Many are attracted not only to the academic programs at a particular U.S. college but also to the larger community, which affords the chance to soak up the surrounding culture. Few foreign universities put much emphasis on the cozy communal life that characterizes American campuses: from clubs and sports teams to student publications and theatrical societies. "The campus and the American university have become identical in people's minds," says Brown University President Vartan Gregorian. "In America it is assumed that a student's daily life is as important as his learning experience...
What is it about Harvard that encourages students to put on this communal chastity belt? It's probably not Michael Berry's clandestine efforts to season the food with sexual depressants. If only it were that simple...
...when people are quick to view a challenging, confusing or hurtful speaker not as an individual, but as a representative of a more abstract evil like racism. This sometimes triggers a collective response from a group that objects to the assumed evil; it rarely fosters interpersonal discussion, healing or communal understanding...
Doesn't it trivialize the abhorrent evil that racism is when we use it as an imprecise label that, on even the most abstract logical continuum, leads someone to juxtapose a remark about communal use of a toaster with Hitler's gas chambers...