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Several articles in The Crimson of late have shown an unfortunately big-money attitude riding high at our dear, beloved alma mater. Harvard, it seems, isn't winning the research grant sweepstakes in the Boston area; this could be a potential cause for concern. After all, the more research money available at an institution, the more attractive it is to prospective faculty members. Why can't the prestige of Fair Harvard pull down the big bucks? Mavbe they should try playing the Lottery, or go on TV game shows--after all, those researchers must be wicked smart. Just imagine them...
...elitism to Dallas that had shades of racism. A popular parable: if a high school basketball player asked about his "boards" replies "I average eight rebounds a game," he is a better candidate to attend Louisville than Duke. Certainly Duke is an excellent school (Richard Nixon's law alma mater), but Louisville must be meeting some standard of education. Ellison became the center of the team only after the incumbent was declared academically ineligible...
...swilling, anti-intellectual goons recruited and virtually paid to bring glory and attention and money to Harvard by their athletic prowess. There is, of course, an alternative stereotype, which portrays Harvard team members as upstanding scholar-athletes, forsaking countless hours of free time to bring glory to their alma mater...
...place is the museum space at New York City's Fashion Institute of Technology, alma mater of Calvin Klein and other top American design talent. FIT is just in the throes of giving the green trees of academe a good shaking. The institute has devoted much of its gallery space to a show called "The East Village," which offers an eye-scalding, rambunctious and appropriately free-spirited tour of boho fashion, Manhattan style. There is a lot of fun- house art on the walls, and sculpture that looks as if it belongs at an after- hours club on Easter Island...
...answer: it was not. The alma mater of Philosopher W.E.B. DuBois (class of 1888), among other distinguished alumni, is still alive--not kicking, not out of the red, but alive. The paint is peeling, the roofs leak and ruptured heating pipes spout plumes of steam in places that once would accommodate quiet reflection--but Fisk still functions...