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...fiction long before it was cool.) His most famous novel - his personal favorite, and the one that deals with most directly with the Dresden disaster - is Slaughterhouse-Five, the story of one Billy Pilgrim, a man who becomes "unstuck in time": Billy experiences the events of his life in random order, including his own birth and his own death. Understandably, this imbues him with a weird, almost redemptive fatalism, which is echoed by the narrator, who is Vonnegut himself. "There would always be wars," he writes, "they were as easy to stop as glaciers... And even if wars didn...
This doesn’t mean that we should go up to random people we don’t know and ask them, “Do all black people speak in ebonics?” or, “Do all white people not know how to dance?” Instead, it’s more about getting to know about a particular aspect of a person’s life as you get to know them as a complete person...
...damning as anything for what it suggested about Imus' thought process: a 66-year-old white male country-music fan rummaging in his subconscious for something to suggest that some young black women looked scary, and coming up with a reference to African-American hair and a random piece of rap slang. (Maybe because older, male media honchos are more conscious of - and thus fixated on - race than gender, much of the coverage of Imus ignored the sexual part of the slur on a show with a locker-room vibe and a mostly male guest list. If Imus had said...
...groundlessly disparaging the resources obscures some important facts: about 40 percent of current undergraduates have used a mental health resource while at Harvard; nearly 1000 students went to Mental Health Services at University Health Services (UHS) in the past year alone; and in a survey of over 900 random students, the average satisfaction rating of experience with mental health resources was significantly positive...
...current house system’s legitimacy as a community-builder is hard to swallow. After all, how can a random housing assignment result in the same feeling of connection that we’ve built with our class months before? It would make far more sense to have all sophomores living together in the Quad, reinforcing the class bond that is built on an actual similarity of experience, rather then forcing them into an arbitrary mélange of students...