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...mother of two from Las Vegas, moved to rural Garrett, Ind., in 2004. "I never fit into the mold," says the former social worker. "I was a tomboy. I'm not domestic. I'm intellectual. I'm an introvert. I'm a person who likes to buck the norm." She began blogging a year ago as RebelliousPastorsWife to "have the conversations I wasn't having in real life"--about "theology, politics, family life, knitting, baseball." Recently she struck up a heated conversation online about the role of the sacraments, a subject she would never bring up at Bible study...
...does this relate to Harvard? Well, clearly, the Quad represents the Other in our midst. When one is Quadded they are declared to be different from the norm that is the river—one never hears of being “riverred.” By making the Quad into the Other, river house residents project their own insecurities about house life onto it. For example: “My house is made up of rat-infested walk-through doubles and has no sense of community, but at least it’s not in the Quad...
...When in doubt, any action film cranks down the action. Here, the bad guys swing their armaments in slo-mo, allowing the good guys to stab them in norm-mo. In one inspired sequence, the action stops as it traces the flight of an arrow, slicing it into separate panels on the screen - Zeno's Arrow Paradox, in a fanboy movie...
Similarly, we also strongly oppose any system that automatically requires the withdrawal of any student who attempts suicide or expresses suicidal tendencies. Yet thankfully, policies that force the hands of administrators or university physicians in these cases do not appear to be the norm, making Virginia’s law all the more perplexing. Harvard, for example, deals with every student on a case-by-case basis, holistically evaluating the viability of the student remaining at Harvard. Though there may be cases in which a student is able to deal—or is even better off dealing?...
...response to this assertion of racial superiority has been to cite the existence of African empires, universities such as Timbuktu, and indigenous scientific achievements that parallel those of the West. But this response is fundamentally flawed because its basic premise relies on the notion that Western civilization is the norm against which all others are measured. As the proverb says, “No matter how long a log floats in the water, it can never become a crocodile.” As black people, we can’t out-white white folks, and more importantly, our ancestors weren?...