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...what better time to watch the indigenous Harvardians than when they are dancing before their favorite altar, the posterboard, offering up devotionals to their extracurricular totems? Here the onlooker may glance at what it means to be a member of this peculiar culture, so strange to the uninitiated onlooker. Here we may make guesses into the unique code of ethics that animates and invigorates these people...
...government subsidies haven’t improved Helena’s situation. Thanks to The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 and the local school district’s “Title I School Improvement” status, we have an entire building full of federally funded posterboard, copy machines, and as of my last visit, several new SMART Boards. My English department, also sponsored by federal funds, just purchased thousands of dollars worth of literature. Most of my students, however, do not need copy machines and an edition of Anna Karenina. They first need to know that...
...Church and the way it dealt with dissidents.I’d like to be satiated by an intellectual discourse over the cartoon jihad, to have people who know more than I do brought together on a stage to discuss and debate the issue. Yet, a look at the posterboards last week was enough to dampen that hope.Advertised were the following: a three-week study group on “the Military in American Democracy,” an Elaine Scarry speech in the “Age of Terror” series, a Harvard Law School panel called...
Finally remembering their task, a few of the children began to read their letter, which had been written on a large sheet of posterboard...
...parents and I were eating dinner when the cheerleaders rang the doorbell. It was the night before Thanksgiving; the pair of cheerleaders carried posterboard, crepe paper and a three-foot-tall gold mylar balloon shaped like the number seven. When I showed them upstairs to my little brother’s room their platform sneakers thumped delicately, like rubber mallets wielded by diffident elves...