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...pleasure we can take from our academic work, doesn’t a goodly portion come from being able to gab about it with your closest friends? It’s true, during reading period, Cabot Library becomes a veritable motel, but nothing captures our passion for academics like the lunchtime debates and shouting matches that overflow from, say, “Justice” lecture into Annenberg Hall. Traditionally, academics use thousands of stuffy, jargon-filled journals to communicate their most obscure thoughts and discoveries, but the joy of college is the ability to air them over a good...
...begun to jump the shark tank of acceptable television behavior. The German edition earlier this year featured ongoing hot tub orgies, and in mid-June the British show was visited by police after a fight broke out in the house. But in Italy, it's all about the gab. Fausto Enni, one of the Italian show's directors on hand in Naples, said he wants people who are bound to babble: "The U.K. version picks extroverts too, but maybe it's harder for the English to recognize themselves in the characters on the screen. For the Italians, you just need...
When asked about the potential effect hip-hop can have on society, Gab mentioned that “music has always had that role, especially hip-hop. Look back to the early 90s when you had popular rap artists like Public Enemy and N.W.A. pushing these really political messages.” He went on to claim that in today’s more materially-oriented scene, “the youth look to rappers” and often try to follow their example, giving the artists a responsibility to send the right signals to young...
...music seems hard to reconcile with their popular acceptance, perhaps it is only because a conflict between the two has been artificially imposed. Although fans love to play up the fundamental differences between “mainstream” and “underground” artists, according to Gab, the scene has gotten to the point where “anyone selling less than 10,000 records calls themselves underground,” regardless of their values and the messages they convey. This stereotype has been changing recently, as artists such as Outkast, Cee-Lo Green...
...adoring crowd, the lights came on and throngs of college students slowly filed out of the club. Ironically enough, the first song to blare from the club speakers was Kanye’s “All Fall Down,” a popular radio single. Gab expressed it best himself when he said, “at the end of the day it’s about good music...