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...Asia is any indication, gaming addiction can extend far beyond childhood, and will soon require our direct attention. The South Korean government has had to fund more than 40 treatment programs that aim to deal with the huge problem of gaming and Internet addiction gripping its country. China too has been forced to deal with what it sees as an economic problem as well as a serious addiction. The government has decided to forcibly limit the playing hours of its more than 20 million daily gamers through a system of punishments within the virtual worlds themselves. Under a totalitarian regime...
...rowdy and alcohol-filled tailgate, a trend that the College tried to change this year. Travia said the increased policing efforts were successful. “In the past, there was no way to distinguish underage students,” he said. But Harvard’s efforts extend past the high-risk environment of the annual Yale showdown. A little over a year ago, Travia created Harvard’s Drug and Alcohol Peer Advisor (DAPA) program. And DAPA’s new party-grant system, which begins this weekend, funds food and non-alcoholic beverages at parties...
Miraculous new communications technologies have suddenly appeared, transforming everyday life. Everything is moving discombobulatingly fast. Globalization accelerates. Wall Street booms. Outside San Francisco, astounding fortunes are made overnight, out of nothing, by plucky nobodies. The new media are scurrilous and partisan. Marketing spin and advertising extend their influence as never before. A fresh urban-youth subculture has emerged, rude and vibrant, entertainment-fixated and violence-glorifying. Christian conservatives are furiously battling cultural decadence, and one popular sect insists that the end days are nigh. Ferocious anti-immigration sentiment is on the rise. Both major American political parties seem pathetically unable...
...great training for an actor to use every cell in your brain to just imagine and really believe that everything’s happening, that you have millions of men behind you,” Santaro says.Santoro, whose character thinks he is a god and aspires to extend his domain over Sparta, brings perhaps the most unique acting background to the movie. Having done work in films that involve questions of sexuality, most notably playing a transvestite in 2003’s “Carandiru,” Santoro explains that he chose to portray Xerxes as a character...
...first time. It seems strange that students will have even less of a say in this selection—which will affect them more—than they had in Faust’s. Even though committees are often more broken than brokering, Faust should at least extend the student body the courtesy of an official audience...