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...don’t expect that everyone would memorize our fight song or sport more Crimson-colored gear and we’ll suddenly have the fun and friendship of a Big Ten school. But I do expect we could celebrate genuinely our friends’, peers??€™, and school’s accomplishments, rather than mask deep cynicism about crowded housing and the Core with beer and circuses...
...revelation that that the girl is a lesbian. TAKING THE STAGE Workshop rehearsals were casual affairs, held in a small room in the basement of Adams House. The 12 students who attended—chosen by audition from a pool of 30 candidates—sat listening to their peers??€™ performances while casually taking notes of their own on notebooks and laptop computers. Iconis accompanied each soloist on the keyboard. Students, eager to experiment with Iconis’s music, were encouraged to bring their own interpretations to his pieces. Occasionally, Iconis stopped to give suggestions...
...Even after Science A, I cannot now tell you the difference between an ampere and a light year. I could sum up the categorical imperative in three sentences, but I learned much more about moral reasoning from making hard decisions in my extracurricular than I did listening to my peers??€™ opinions about the justice of cannibalism. Likewise, I’m not sure what my biochemist blockmates are really gaining from their humanities classes other than cocktail party conversation. But are they really paying Harvard tuition to be able to bring up the Ming dynasty on a blind...
...like the typical male sports fan in that respect. But in spite of this widespread apathy, there are some female athletes who have achieved fame and great financial success. Women like Maria Sharapova, Mia Hamm, and Danica Patrick have all become marketing icons, far outshining their peers??€”in some cases, peers who are actually better players. They, along with others like Anna Kournikova, have used more than just their athletic ability to gain this fame: They’ve also used their looks...
Worst of all, University administrators have given these foreign elements free reign for the past half-century. Rather than force them to take remedial courses about this country, catching up to their peers??€™ years of high school history courses, professors’ refusal to mandate American content in the curriculum gives foreigners a hall pass. Rather than quarantine them in some kind of international dormitory, we deliberately mix them into the rooms of unsuspecting Midwesterners, under the bizarre assumption that living with someone who thinks it’s acceptable for heterosexual men to kiss and embrace...