Word: jaron
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jaron R. Bourke '89, a literature major, won a Hoopes Prize for his thesis titled, "Presenting History and Historicizing the Present: Bakhtin and His World of Language, Ideology, and Interpretation," an analysis of the works of the Russian literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin...
...last month two of their own, John Lasseter and William Reeves of Pixar, a computer manufacturer in San Rafael, Calif., won the first Academy Award given for a totally computer-generated film -- a short subject called Tin Toy that starred a rambunctious baby and a windup music man. Says Jaron Lanier, founder of VPL Research, a small Redwood City, Calif., company that makes the equipment used to help people enter a computer-generated world: "This is the year that this stuff is finally starting to work...
...after all, precisely because the government feels no obligation to provide adequate financial aid to students of all backgrounds that some are driven to "the selling away of four years of life to get an education," as activist Jaron Bourke...
...describe all ROTC students as "indentured [servants]" who have "sold away four years of life to get an education," as Jaron Bourke '89 did, both ignores the possibility that ROTC serves any purpose to those involved besides paying for tuition and denies the individuality and even humanity of officer candidates. His insinuation that ROTC students would not have attended Harvard had they not been involved in the ROTC program (receiving the scholarship) is generally true for me, but for a reason far different than any he mentions. If Harvard did not have a ROTC program, I would have attended...
...describe all ROTC as "indentured [servants]" who have "sold away four years of life to get an education," as Jaron Bourke did, both ignores the possibility that ROTC serves any purpose to those involved besides paying for tuition, and denies the individuality and even humanity of officer candidates...