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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...idea of two seasons was no problem at all to me. In fact, I was used to having only two seasons...

Author: By W. STEPHEN Venable, | Title: The Spring Season | 4/15/1995 | See Source »

...given some responsibility for choosing their own education; they are given so few choices for classes in view of the restrictions on Core classes and concentration requirements. To get a true liberal arts education, they should be trusted to choose their own courses with a little guidance (the idea behind distribution requirements...

Author: By Tanya Dutta, | Title: Core Must Expand Offerings | 4/15/1995 | See Source »

There was a long, bitter winter filled with snow and ice. Then, at some arbitrary point, winter became summer--passing over the idea of spring altogether...

Author: By W. STEPHEN Venable, | Title: The Spring Season | 4/15/1995 | See Source »

...more than this," and finishes her whiny pseudo-deep monologue while climbing on Caleb's shoulders, you can't help wincing. At another point in the production, the house lights come up and the cast sits and stares out into the audience. Even if this were a new dramatic idea, one would still resent it coming from this production. For a play this thematically weak to suddenly try to turn the tables on its audience, as if to challenge some complacency it condescendingly assumes the audience harbors, is offensive and smug...

Author: By Joyelle H. Mcsweeney, | Title: `Breath' Gasping For a Clue: Center Does Not Hold | 4/14/1995 | See Source »

...idea of treating an individual differently because of his or her race belies the very principles of the civil rights movement. David Horowitz, in his book Liberal Racism, writes: "Martin Luther King's dream was that his children would live in a land where they would be judged by the content of their character and not the color of their skin. Thanks to affirmative action...we now judge everybody by the color of their skin." In our attempt to build a united society that would truly be color-blind, we have created a society that is wracked by painful...

Author: By Talia Milgrom-elcott, | Title: Tainting Diversity | 4/14/1995 | See Source »

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