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...study, conducted at Yale University, suggests that racial bias can be found in the amygdala, a region of the brain involved in emotional response, before it is censored by the frontal cortex and the conscious brain...
...that suggests that prejudice is inevitable, or that because people have these automatic responses, they’re not responsible for those responses,” said Cunningham. “But this shows that although the responses exist, people do have the ability to control them. Perhaps our conscious attitudes can limit our personal responses...
...think Harvard should be more environmentally conscious and serve as an example for other schools in this area,” says presidential candidate Matthew J. Glazer...
This is not to say, however, that the lead actors were not equally talented. Arlo D. Hill ’08 delivered a strong performance with a strong vocals as the overly duty-conscious Frederick. His anachronistic use of his hands to “quote” and the to-be invented wrist watch only served to heighten the comedic effect. Chelsey J. Forbess ’07 played Mabel, the love interest, and displayed a good sense of comedic timing, especially in the song “Poor Wandering One!” where she coyly delays Frederick?...
...press. More importantly, we have no recollection of any of this actually happening—and apparently neither does anyone else. Gadfly has yet to find a student who vividly recalls seeing the alleged incident of unwitting Harvardian self-deprecation (most of the time we’re pretty conscious about it). And us here at FM certainly didn’t see nothin’…but on the other hand, we were totally shitfaced...