Word: joking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although Hanselman has said the gesture was meant as an innocent joke, Do says the incident illustrates the overtly male-dominated environment in the College's student government. She and other female members say the institutional bias against women obstructs their entry into the leadership of the council...
...when you talk to Kennedy--or, more appropriately, when he converses with you--the two pictures become oddly necessary. A single photo can give you only an attenuated version of David Kennedy; One side of a coin. A joke without its punch line. Choose your own cliche--David is a "living, breathing paradox," as one of his friends...
...near-death experiences" with an article recounting the stories of fictional people who avoided being killed. One was "Achmed Mohammed, Age 25." The character had eluded death because he was unable "to drive a truck full of explosives into a barracks full of imperialist United States forces." But, the joke went, "[m]y brother Harouk took the mission...
Haneen M. Rabie '95, president of the Society of Arab Students, didn't find the joke funny, and blasted the Lampoon in a letter to The Crimson. She said the piece reinforced stereotypes of Arabs as terrorists. "You can't help but feel discriminated against," Rabie told The Crimson, which was also criticized for a cartoon...
Kennedy says he doesn't see why minorities are upset by the organization, but he seems not to grasp that even a little perceived insensitivity can go a long way. "The last time a joke was printed that had even a remote reference to Blacks was in spring of 1990," he asserts...