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Student magazines, the center of the past weeks’ controversy, represent an entirely different category. The office of Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 officially recognizes 26 student publications on campus. They cover a wide range of subjects: from the politically charged Salient, Perspective and the Harvard Political Review; to the culturally oriented Harvard Asia-Pacific Review, Zalacain, Diversity and Distinction and Yisei; to light-hearted humor magazines like SATIRE V, Swift and The Lampoon...
...that other sacred summer institution, the low-brow extended-play sitcom, I will admit I have a special place in my heart for them. I certainly cherish smarter, subtler comedic works more than any gross-out bodily fluid showcase, but there’s something to be said for a movie (Old School and Meet the Parents immediately come to mind) that can make me laugh continuously for an hour and a half. That is an accomplishment that is rarely replicated in the independent film community and holds merit far beyond the average half-assed comic-book adaptation...
...importance of quality writing may be why those gross-out comedies that you praise are sometimes the best product of the summer—their imaginative excesses often require more creativity than one needs to write dialogue of the “It’s gonna blow!” variety. In the summer of ’98, the only two movies that I paid to see twice were extreme comedies—There’s Something About Mary and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (which, admittedly, was an arthouse pukefest, rather than a mainstream...
...report from Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 this past February revealed that the number of A-range grades given actually increased last academic year, from 46.4 percent to 47.8 percent...
...What any student should do if he or she is concerned is call UHS or go into UHS for testing,” Gross said...