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Acting as Big Brother was Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III, who began reviewing the band's halftime shows to eliminate what he termed "vulgarity" and "in-group jokes." Under the new policy. Epps made small changes in the script the band followed during halftime of the Cornell game, changing a quote from "Macbeth...
...chain of causality seems to operate in the other direction. A sense of solidarity and in-group specialness must be built up each year so that people will cooperate with one another in their domestic chores and so that social pressure can be put upon those who do not perform up to standard. We have our little rituals for achieving these ends too, such as banquets and parties. What co-op house members often fail to realize is that we simultaneously and inevitably build a certain aloofness to outsiders. Members detest the suggestion that the co-op is a kind...
...private meetings, he is the authoritarian "Master" Moon who claims to be "greater than Jesus himself" and says, "God is now throwing Christianity away and is now establishing a new religion, and this new religion is Unification Church ... We have only one way." Other in-group speeches have proclaimed, "I am your brain" and "The whole world is in my hand, and I will conquer and subjugate the world...
Professor Edward F. Robinson, a spokesman for the opposition to the faculty plan, said yesterday that the changes effected through the administration's "job fits" proposal, were part of an effort "to create a certain kind of orthodoxy ... with certain kinds of values." Those expelled were not in the "in-group," he said...
...Rock musicians use drugs frequently and openly, and their compositions are riddled with references to drugs, from the Beatles' "I get high with a little help from my friends" to the Jefferson Airplane's White Rabbit ("Remember what the dormouse said: Feed your head"). The culture has its own in-group argot: "bummers" (bad trips) and "straights" (everyone else), "heat" (the police) and "narks" (narcotics agents), and being "spaced out" (in a drug daze...