Word: groupe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...true that opinions like the ones Kovacevich mentions ("As a member of X ethnic group, I think..."), when accepted dogmatically by professors and fellow students, halt conversation to the point of complete silence. But there is no reason why it should be this way: if they are nothing more than prejudices, they should collapse, or at least be uncovered, when rigorously tackled. To criticize professors of not tackling them is one thing; to criticize students for voicing such opinions is unacceptable censorship...
...March Madness pool. No money is going to change hands, thankfully--this is a "just for fun" pool organized by my blockmate and facilitated by espn.com's ever-so-helpful pool generator. Nevertheless, if you want to revel in my shame, just check out the rankings in "Tim's Group of Excellence." Several friends and even a few people I've never met are cleaning my clock on the way to the Sweet 16. In my own defense, I spent a grand total of 120 seconds filling out my bracket--Duke, my perennial favorite since the days of Christian Laettner...
...girl is sitting and chatting with a group of blockmates after finishing dinner, describing the results of her date last Saturday night with the cute junior in her History of Art and Architecture section. She thought things went well, she says, but after calling him a few days later, she has yet to hear back from him. She rises for a last minute frozen yogurt run and, alas, runs into...
...group of girls are trying to dance in a circle. The cramped room doesn't allow much space for the crowd, brought to its feet by the Culture Club's Karma Chameleon," to move around. One of the girls, sporting the Janet Jackson pre-plastic-surgery-Blazer look, accidently swings around and slaps a guy in the face with her side ponytail...
Along with the national United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS), PSLM has charged that the FLA has a poor monitoring system, and that it has a policy which lets the group notify companies of upcoming inspections...