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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...symbolic gesture, the speakers and audience members, many of whom carried neon picket signs, stuffed “no confidence” ballots into a mock ballot...

Author: By David Zhou, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Students Protest at Faculty Meeting | 2/23/2005 | See Source »

...reflected in the next version of the game. They drink $1.75 Coors at the All-Ranks Club and climb in and out of the backs of trucks ("It took four people to hoist me in, and I still pulled a muscle," said one ruefully). Then there's that mock ambush. "I wanted them to be shocked," says Major Randy Zeegers, a tall, poster-perfect Green Beret who functions as a liaison between the Army and the designers. "They'll take that and put it in the game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Army's Killer App | 2/21/2005 | See Source »

...whiny Vince Neil vocals. This is likely because the band lacked any ingenuity or real musical drive; their music was commercially calculated to reinforce their wild lifestyle. The only song lively enough for lap dancing is the Crüe’s most memorable hit, the drug-dealer-mock-heroic “Dr. Feelgood.” Covers of The Beatles’s “Helter Skelter,” The Sex Pistols’s “Anarchy in the U.K,” and The Rolling Stones?...

Author: By Kristina M. Moore, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Music: Red, White and Crue | 2/18/2005 | See Source »

...turn of the century, the club began holding mock debates, deciding cases such as “Dido vs. Aeneas: For Breach of Promise” and convicting administrators and students alike for crimes such as witchcraft (their pudding was too tasty to be true) and seriousness (perpetrated by countless professors and clergymen...

Author: By Annie M. Lowrey, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Why Are They Here? | 2/17/2005 | See Source »

...Pudding members decided that the mock trials had run their course. Lemuel Hayward, Class of 1845, borrowed a plot from a stage play that had been produced in Boston’s Tremont Theatre and created Bombastes Furioso, a “tragicomic opera.” The Pudding’s all-male company cast Augustus F. Hinchman, Class of 1845, in the coveted drag role of Distaffina. The burlesque was staged on December 13, 1844, in Hollis 11 before an audience of Hasty Pudding members...

Author: By Annie M. Lowrey, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Why Are They Here? | 2/17/2005 | See Source »

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