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...certainly be warranted, but not in this case. More often than not, J-Terms offer little more than marketing material to admissions offices. Where J-Terms have been successful, it is generally at small colleges where students and faculty are already close. Trying to use the J-Term fad to create the illusion of that culture where it does not already exist may be a disastrous waste of everyone’s time...
...Moonboots”—For our December 2 scrutiny on Style, we knew we had to have a picture of the fad-tastic puffy Moonboots we’d seen adorning feet all over the Yard. However, we must come clean and admit that the “Moonboots” in our magazine were actually not genuine, veritable Moonboot brand, but Veronique’s “Snowboots” she bought in Paris. When...
...taken a ridiculous concept and ran with it, at the expense of everyone from Southern California like myself. This trend began with Orange County, the hopelessly terrible movie with Jack Black and Forrest Gump’s kid, and now, I feared, this would become a long-running fad. Having grown up in Orange County—specifically Irvine, a particularly plastic suburb—my whole life, I knew from firsthand experience that life there was not engaging or dramatic enough to merit a movie, let alone an entire television series. Plus, calling Orange County The O.C. would...
...order for this to become a national movement, we needed the help of the press” said Bishop. “We tried to use a gimmick or fad for a good cause by making the shirts cool...
...TIME: was the international Free Tibet movement a fad, like saving the whales? Dalai Lama: I don't think so. I think interest worldwide in Tibet and support groups are active still. Sometimes concerts happen, sometimes they don't. Another factor may be Afghanistan and Iraq; they make Tibet a secondary issue...