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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...very same people who were deemed not cool enough and were "voted out" of group, and, in the fall, sophomores incapable of doing anything remotely social on campus without bringing along their 16 closest friends. And then, of course, there are the "floaters," students whose friendships split along awkward fault lines, forcing them to jump into the cracks and "float" into a new House without the comfort of familiar faces. As the innards strewn across the Yard indicate, the process is a blast...

Author: By Dara Horn, | Title: Secure Your Flotation Device | 3/25/1999 | See Source »

...Michel Chaouli (Faculty, March 18) mistakes a political problem for a theoretical one. The fault is not in literary studies, but with literary studies. Academics in this field are not paid to produce anything, are not paid for the content of their work at all. Our society chooses to pay them to do what they do because they are a symbol of knowledge and tradition, regardless of how radical their theories might be. Really, it's only a kind of effete entertainment or, at best, private passion, for them. The truest words I ever heard in an English class were...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 3/19/1999 | See Source »

Michel Chaouli (Faculty, March 18) mistakes a political problem for a theoretical one. The fault is not in literary studies, but with literary studies. Academics in this field are not paid to produce anything, are not paid for the content of their work at all. Our society chooses to pay them to do what they do because they are a symbol of knowledge and tradition, regardless of how radical their theories might be. Really, it's only a kind of effete entertainment or, at best, private passion, for them. The truest words I ever heard in an English class were...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Literary Theory Irrelevant | 3/19/1999 | See Source »

...Loker is just not big enough, and that is noone's fault, since the size is determined by thefootprint of Memorial Hall," he said in an e-mailmessage...

Author: By David S. Stolzar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Despite Clamor, Student Center Seems Pipe Dream | 3/17/1999 | See Source »

...culture, we venerate symmetrical faces, women with perky breasts, men with V-shaped torsos. But is it the fault of Vogue editors and Aaron Spelling that we do so? Skewering the popular wisdom that beauty is a social construct, this Harvard psychologist argues that we ogle such features because they radiate the health and fertility our species needs to survive. Avoiding ideological rant, Etcoff employs rigorous scientific research and amusing detail to create a great read, albeit one that won't become Naomi Wolf's favorite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Survival of the Prettiest | 3/15/1999 | See Source »

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