Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...essence of the self-absorbed groping college life in key passages such as: "The apartment that we called 'home' was a place to store books and papers, share an occasional meal, play chess, scan the newspapers, watch television, make love in haste and detachment, then fitfully fall asleep." This idea of college as a place to rest while stuck in transit between childhood and adulthood certainly strikes a strong cord among students...
Still, Stewart is not a completely satisfying charcter. Ladd doesn't give enough insight or background for the reader to become familiar with her. The character is presented from a sterile distance, so that the reader has a vague idea of her, but little understanding. One of the most traumatic scenes, the moment that Stewart miscarries, is ended simply with the phrase "I had lost a part of myself". While this may be true, the reader needs more. What part of herself, and how did that feel? The reader is left to fill in the blanks...
...spectacular," said psychology concentrator Lana Israel '97. "His idea of legitimizing emotion as an intelligence really rings true...
However, the administration is wrong to pursue an overly strict alcohol policy. Students who drink responsibly help to combat the idea that you must be drunk to have fun, as well as demonstrate the healthy consumption of alcohol. In doing so, they inject some much-needed maturity into the community. Administrators who really cared about the role of alcohol on campus would respect, not hound, responsible drinkers--whatever their...
...Students] don't come in fired [up] with the idea that they want to become activists," says Charles Bullard Professor of Forestry Peter T. Ashton. "They are a very serious group who really want to learn hard science in the field of environmental studies and be better informed...