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Jennifer S. Frautschi '95-'97 concurs about the abysmal state of dating interactions. "The dates I've purportedly been on have been miscommunication dates. I've been unaware that they were dates, where as the other half thought they were dates. Such miscommunication leads to murder, stalking, and the decay of Western civilization...
...DIFFICULTY FACING HARTFORD, Connecticut, is by now a familiar one: an inner-city public school system burdened by structural decay and besieged by the pathologies of urban poverty. But while money certainly seems in short supply, what is more troubling here is the isolation in which Hartford's students--94% of them African American or Hispanic, nearly 3 out of 4 poor, with a high school dropout rate more than three times the state average--find themselves: a sort of walled city, separated from less troubled suburbs by an invisible color line drawn not by law but by decades...
What begins looking like one more film fetishizing violence ends with a palpable, some will say trite, proclamation of self-importance. It is the realization that there is nothing Western culture can do to save the Maori from decadence and decay that they could not do better themselves. By first flinging bits of raw, unfiltered indictments of urban life at its audience, "Warriors" depresses the spirit in order to redeem it with a glimmer of hope in the end. While violence serves a dual purpose, to caress the fetish as well as to sicken the heart, it is the latter...
...Savage's article is not about film, it's about the decay of our morals as a society, a decay which every mouth with a microphone south of Howard Stern so "astutely" recognizes. If moral bankruptcy is so widespread, then why is everyone so concerned about the state of our morals...
...director of the Consumer Federation of America, argues that there are no panaceas for national concerns about the gap between the information haves and have-nots. Nor, he believes, will eventual computer literacy and Net access do much to end the blight of poverty, illegitimacy, rural isolation and urban decay. ``There's always going to be an unequal distribution of income,'' Cooper says. That's probably true, but at the very least, the new technology should unleash all its considerable energies toward the goal of preventing those problems from getting any worse...