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With Housing Day just a couple weeks away, the denizens of Dunster House have decided they won't take their House's abysmal rep sitting down. No no. The latest Dunster House Committee minutes are out, and plans have been hatched to generate "Dunster Buzz," a concept that's even more ridiculous than it sounds...
...Take the typical American creationist’s sneer: discrediting evolution by calling it “only a theory.” This misrepresents the concept of a theory in scientific discourse, which simply means an explanation. Plate tectonics, geometry, and even gravity are considered scientific theories. Calling evolution “only a theory” is also highly misleading because evolution is not only a theory but also a fact, in the words of the late Harvard biologist Stephen Jay Gould. We can observe the fact of evolution in populations of animals or plants that change even...
...book, however, the author’s stated purpose reads more like a rationalization than a graceful bow and exit. The idea behind the book is intriguing, but McGinn does not offer a thorough treatment of it. He devotes far too much time and energy to defining the concept without impressing its significance on his readers. In a world where even one dictionary citation seems like a rhetorical faux pas, three separate appeals to Wikipedia, HarperCollins American Slang, and the Oxford English Dictionary in the first chapter serve as early signals of McGinn’s need for filler...
...himself for a decent rhyme scheme; the best that the lethargic “Heartbreak” can conjure is, “Bad enough that I showed up late / I had to leave before they even cut the cake / Welcome to heartbreak.” The trippy visual concept is admittedly cool, except, well, it was also cool two years ago when the kitschy electronic-pop group Chairlift did the same thing in their video for “Evident Utensils.” Although Kanye has successfully sampled artists ranging from Ray Charles to Daft Punk...
Class is an inherently nebulous concept, and although the U.S. government defines poverty (presently, it's anything under $22,000 for a family of four), it does not define what it means to be middle class. The U.S. Census Bureau says the median income in the U.S. is about $51,000 a year, but how far does the "middle" stretch? According to a 2008 Pew Research Center survey, half of Americans self-identify as middle class. (See pictures of Americans at home...