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...club not only admits that it has no purpose, but bases its existence on that very fact. Maya Williams '84 established the Fluff Club "for people who just want to stuff their resumes." The only requirement for admission in the Fluff Club is to think of a high-sounding title for yourself; Williams--the Grand Poobah of the Fluff Club--must approve the titles. Williams admits that it "probably won't get people far. Once you tell people your title, they begin to doubt...
...Harvard Foundation can better utilize their mission to tackle racism by inviting real Black role models, such as Barbara Jordan, Maya Angelou, or Steive Wonder (if they were determined to have a musical figure), to visit Harvard. However, if the Harvard Foundation wishes to continue in their ineffectual pattern, why not bring Butterfly McQueen on campus? Her potential for aiding race relations appears commensurate to Diana Ross". More over, Daffy. Diane C. Gooding...
...expected that organizing anything to do with the Vietnam War would draw fractious sniping After debates in Congress finally ended last year in permission to build the monument, the proposed design came under fire. When the structure envisioned by first-year Graduate School of Design student Maya Y. Lin was finally completed, some argued that the understand black marble was not "heroic" enough and perpetuated the post-war shame of the veterans, so designers agreed to add the traditional large bronze figure of three soldiers and a flag. Then another group raised objections to the victory-V shape...
...Mall, got 500,000 donors to give $7 million and managed to attract 1,421 entries to a professionally judged design competition. V.V.M.F. wanted a "reflective and contemplative" memorial with an "emphasis ... on those who died"-including a display of their names-and "without political or military content." Maya Ying Lin, then a Yale architecture student, won the competition with her subtle, somber design, which looks like manicured stone ramparts: two angled walls, each 250 ft. long, sloping down into the ground from a height of 10 ft. at their junction. The carved names of the dead begin...
...been attempting to challenge Soviet censorship. His anthology of unorthodox Russian writing, Metropol, was denounced in the Soviet press as salacious and subversive. The Soviet secret police, the KGB, began to hound him in an effort to drive him into exile. In 1980, Aksyonov and his wife Maya succumbed to pressure and left the Soviet Union. His citizenship was then taken away by the Supreme Soviet, and the Literary Gazette announced that he had chosen "the path of betrayal to the motherland...