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...logical step toward eliminating elitism." By doubling the clubs' membership and support base among students? What does WAC consider the logical second step in the campaign against final club elitism? Why do I get the feeling they won't be out there hunting up poor students to punch once they get their own feet in the door? According to Walton, the freshly selected female upper crust "would take with them their concerns about elitism." It seems to me that their only concern about the elite is whether they...
...final clubs' "punch" process isn't random. These clubs remain an enclave of the rich, prep-schooled and well-connected, and they don't pretend otherwise. They exist to continue that social stratification; closing the doors to everyone but themselves and their wealthy alumni ensure that the ruling class continues to receive its undeserved perks...
...event of the season is not a game at all, but the arrival of a new game player. Next week Panasonic will introduce a VCR-size black box called REAL Multiplayer, designed by the hot Silicon Valley start-up company 3DO. With a 32-bit processor, packing twice the punch of the 16-bit Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis systems, and two special-purpose graphics chips, the Multiplayer is the most powerful video-game system ever marketed to the home. That in itself is no guarantee of anything. Other companies have tried and failed to use sheer power to steal...
...Mortal Kombat, whose release last week in a $10 million Hollywood-style media blitz set off a nationwide debate about the escalating violence in video games (see box). The brutal kick-and-punch game is expected to bring in more than $150 million by Christmas -- roughly equivalent to ticket sales of a hit movie like The Fugitive...
...Johnny Cage kills his victims with a bloody, decapitating uppercut. Rayden favors electrocution. Kano will punch through his opponent's chest and rip out a still-beating heart. Sub-Zero likes to tear his foe's head off and hold it up in victory, spinal cord twitching as it dangles from the neck...