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...Voyage is not all bad—it’s just silly, unoriginal and pointless...
...does, however, try to cast drinking as a health issue. All of its reminders in this respect are basically pointless, though, if students can still get in serious disciplinary trouble for being caught with alcohol. That students—essentially only first-years, since the Houses take a more hands-off approach—could be asked to leave Harvard due to inebriated indiscretions is never disguised...
...Living Color (out April 6 on DVD), partly because that was before J. Lo had signed on to be a Fly Girl. And both shows are a whole lot better than the mercifully short-lived The Richard Pryor Show (recently released on DVD), a 1977 NBC sketch comedy so pointless, slow and compromised by the network that it made even Pryor, one of the greatest comics of all time, look bad. At this rate, a Shasta McNasty DVD will be in stores by July...
...years worth of their own tradition and two millennia of Catholic tradition, Boston College (BC) has formed a “Student Tradition Task Force” charged with devising additional useless rituals. Perhaps BC can take a page or two from Harvard, that venerable old repository of pointless and counterproductive traditions. A few suggestions...
...social scene may have long histories here. Not every university can live up to the Harvard mystique, but we have inklings that BC is on the road to success. After all, they seem to have mastered Harvard’s greatest tradition of all: a penchant for forming pointless bureaucratic committees...