Word: cucci
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There are too many thin people at Harvard. One of them is Evan P. Cucci '96, whose ridiculously offensive opinion piece, "Developing the Student Body," appeared in the Crimson this week...
...piece continues in the same astounding vein. Operating on the a priori assumption that fatness is bad, Cucci recommends a battery of mandatory physical education programs and nutrition seminars...
...Cucci's support for a Foucauldian system of bodily discipline is for the most part predicated on an invocation of the Athenian mind/body ideal. He quotes "the progressive thinker" John Dewey--neglecting to mention that what was progressive in the early part of this century is hardly progressive now--as follows: "there is an impossibility of achieving intelligence through any system that does not use the body to teach the mind and the mind to teach the body...
There's also the sex. Suffice it to say that all-nighters become much more entertaining when accompanied by the late-night squeaks and groans of cucci-facci...