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Like all red-blooded Americans, we at Dartboard have been eagerly awaiting this weekend's re-release of Star Wars, George Lucas' classic science fiction film. Twenty years after the movie first opened, the current wave of hype has given us the perfect opportunity to rehash our debates about the true motives of Luke Skywalker's suspicious uncle Owen, to argue about the relative merits of life in the Hoth and Dagobah systems, and of course, to ponder whether Princess Leia is, in fact, a true feminist...
Although some students were happy that they could legally watch Superbowl XXXI in a sports bar, others felt that going to Montreal was the only way to escape the game's hype...
Before some Harvard-Radcliffe for Elmo Club writes nasty letters, I will say that I do like Elmo, the consummately cute and wonderful rising star of the "Sesame Street" world. Maybe some of the Elmo hype can help finance the Corporation for Public Broadcasting programming that is so valuable and yet always so vulnerable to budget cuts. Maybe enough Washington politicians said, "Elmo who?" to their children that they will think twice about cutting the dollars that support the people and puppets that teach America's children (assuming the parents of those children show up in district polling...
...SUPER BOWL BALLYHOO, HYPE, HOOPLA & HUBBUB...
...disappointed to note that, in the staff editorial of Dec. 9, The Crimson denigrated Michael A. O'Mary '99, who organized the first student group summit, ran Thanksgiving shuttle buses and did a lot of organizational work for the Institute of Politics' HYPE '96, calling him "unqualified...