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Crashing a packed party, Bradley Forsyth, 23, allegedly entered the room of Stephen P. Janiak '96 and took the student's heavy plaster, three-foot model of Michelangelo's statue of David...
...shortage, if not mere lack, of what we at Harvard hear our friends from other colleges call "survey courses." Many feel Core classes are far too narrow for a curriculum which claims its intent is to foster a board education. Taking Literature and Arts B - 3 9 ("Michelangelo") clearly is not the same as taking an art survey class. This argument criticizing the limited number of broad survey courses is not the root of failure for the Core, however...
...example, according to post-modernism no one can rightfully claim that Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is superior to a song called "Cop Killer." No one can justify that Michelangelo's "David" is a better work of art than Duchamp's "The Fountain" (an upside down urinal). There is no longer an objective standard for evaluating...
...idea of going into the woods with anindividual of indeterminate gender underscores theuncertainty inherent in 'net relationships. Whenhaving 'netsex, the information one "partner"knows about the other is highly selective andoften false. After all, what can they give you?The Michelangelo Virus? There is a certainexcitement for many in this ability to create acharacter, to be an ideal self or someonecompletely different. If you want to be asix-foot platinum blonde transsexual dominatrixone day and a vertically challenged Cyclops fromNew Zealand the next, all it takes is the click ofthe keys. No one will ever know. By the sametoken, though...
...instance, Literature and Arts B-21, "The Images of Alexander the Great," emphasizes objects in the Sackler, and Literature and Arts B-39, "Michelangelo," requires students to view art in the Fogg...