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...middle of the room. No one wants to acknowledge its existence. People skirt around the elephant to avoid bumping a trunk or treading on a large toenail. But, despite their game of pretending otherwise, its existence threatens to bring the whole building down. However, at other times, a person knocks down a painting or puts a hole in the plaster but blames it on the elephant. This is called playing the race card. Richard Thompson Ford’s new book, “The Race Card: How Bluffing about Bias Makes Race Relations Worse,” examines...
...mainstream audience.” Elmore auditioned exclusively for BlackCAST during her freshman fall, something she says has less to do with race and more to do with comfort. According to Elmore, BlackCAST is simply “a warm and welcoming place, not just for a black person.” As Strong puts it, “I’ve seen lot of independent productions within the HRDC, but I find home within Blackcast. There’s family.”This semester, Elmore chose to turn down the role of Dorothy in BlackCAST?...
...Even if you’re fortunate enough to have a crazy friend, you aren’t in the clear. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that in the United States, the likelihood that a person will develop some mental disorder during his lifetime is 48.6 percent. Although this data may go a long way towards explaining political phenomena in the United States, it is nonetheless not very reassuring that one-half of Americans are at some time certifiably bonkers—especially given our liberal gun laws. The problem isn’t just that we are crazy...
...brain, there is a temptation to declare what should be considered a model specimen of Homo sapiens. However, the greatest contributor to human diversity is not large-scale cultural, environmental, or genetic diversity, but rather the basic differences that makes every brain unique. To load a person up on chemicals or therapies in order to iron out the aspects of his personality that don’t correspond to an arbitrary Platonic ideal of normality stands against the core values of Western civilization. The quirks and eccentricities of individuals give our world a richness that shouldn?...
...average Cambridge sidewalk is infamous for its inability to comfortably accommodate two people walking abreast. Add a four-foot circle around each person and you have an impassable wall of nylon and steel. In the rain, stepping over the curb becomes an impossibility, and phalanxes of overstressed and rushed Harvard students clump up on sidewalks, knotted up by umbrellas. Cambridge’s Puritan planners simply didn’t have umbrellas in mind when they were laying out the cobblestones, but we insist on jamming the streets with them anyhow...