Word: dungeon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...basement of Dater Junior High, just next to the boiler room and marked off by thick prison bars, school officials have crafted a fate worse than algebra class. Teachers at the school, part of the Cincinnati, Ohio, public school district, simply call it "the dungeon." Students have more descriptive -- if unprintable -- names for the small windowless cell. Though the prison bars are just painted on the cinder-block entrance, the punishment is real. Delinquent students must remain in the room -- absolutely quiet -- all day, even eating at their desks. "It's so hot and so boring," moans a seventh grader...
...dungeon is the center of a debate over not the effectiveness of pedagogic hard labor but the race of the punished and the race of the punishers. Black students are twice as likely to end up in the dungeon as white students; in fact, black students are twice as likely to end up disciplined throughout the entire Cincinnati public school system. It is a particularly awkward statistic for a school district mired in a 20-year-old desegregation suit. So awkward, in fact, that the board of education has agreed to an explosive remedy: if a judge concurs, the Cincinnati...
...fans are paying much heed to the Latin words. After all, would they really be out there dancing to Salve Festa Dies (Hail, Festive Day) if they knew that one verse of this hymn contains the dour plea "Break the chains of hell, the shadows of the dungeon/ And call up again whatever has fallen into the abyss...
Mastrianni said the Dungeon is partly designed to absorb overflow customers from the blues bar upstairs, who often spill out onto Winthrop Street...
House of Blues patrons will be able to visit the Dungeon while waiting for a table upstairs...