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...aren't any cool parliamentary procedures. But the ultimate move--the one that's making Aaron Sorkin even more upset that he won't be writing The West Wing next season--is to halt a vote by hightailing it out of town and then evading the cops looking to drag you back. It's always a ratings grabber, like when some Republicans in the U.S. Senate locked themselves in their offices to quash a vote on a campaign-finance-reform bill in 1988, causing a sergeant at arms to carry Bob Packwood feetfirst to the Senate floor (after determining that...
...easy way out to address this situation for Gross and the administration to drag out the tired refrain: “We would like to give more power to the students, but you have not demonstrated that you are responsible, and we have the statistics on binge drinking to prove it.” Yet binge alcohol is the symptom of a larger problem: a campus without commitment to designing safe student party environments. It’s time to confront this problem head-on with creative thinking from both students and administrators...
...gays were everywhere. You may think that we—three soulful, intelligent homosexuals—were overjoyed at the sudden omnipresence of these alternatively-desiring young people. Certainly a variety of heartwarming spectacles were available for our delectation: from the festive kiss-in to drag bingo, from the Day of Silence to “Camp,” the cleverly-titled bgltq dance. With Gaypril, the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA) intended to “fight homophobia” and increase queer visibility at Harvard...
...fact, for drag bingo, the BGLTSA explicitly took their political inspiration from television’s Sex in the City—an unlikely candidate for models of radical subversion. For this extravaganza, the BGLTSA board felt it necessary to hire a real live drag queen to provide them with make-up tips—thereby revealing the way in which the event depended upon a tokenized, exoticized identity of which the BGLTSA knew nothing...
While one might be tempted to dismiss the BGLTSA’s mode of activism as, at worst, a harmless attempt at visibility, the real effects of such political ignorance are far more treacherous. This became especially clear at drag bingo, where one of the lucky winners took home a box of “X-Rated Fortune Cookies,” bearing a squint-eyed, buck-toothed caricature of a “Chinese” waiter, scandalizing his blond-haired, blue-eyed customer with sexual secrets of the Orient. When the gross racism of this artifact was brought...