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Whenever I stay true to my mission and actually write a column on campus life, I tend to shy away from the academic sphere. Sure, I've offered a rant here about the Core and a rave there about shopping period, but overall I feel much more justified in simply avoiding academics altogether and talking about extracurriculars, campus politics or administrative action. This week, though, I have been stirred to actually delve into the world of the classroom...
...read with dismay on the Internet your staff editorial of Oct. 29, 1996 ("Peninsula's Rant: Staff Culpable, Swastika Harmful") concerning Jose Padilla and the Peninsula. Given the condescension and closemindedness with which you, the staff of a newspaper at one of America's finest colleges, insult and dismiss the views of the Peninsula, it should come as no surprise that someone a little less responsible than you chose to tack a swastika on Padilla's door...
...feet banging away is to feel his passion, his intent; visuals would be nice but aren't necessary. Noise/Funk is a historical work, tracing the black experience from slave times to the present through tap dancing, and much is expressed in the songs that Glover dances to. Gospel/Hip-Hop Rant is one of the best tracks here, deftly juxtaposing the pleading, lamenting sounds of gospel with the rougher, younger sounds...
...train wreck a century and a half ago sent Herman Melville into this eloquent rant: "Two infatuate trains ran pell-mell into each other, and climbed and clawed each other's backs; and one locomotive was found fairly shelled, like a chick, inside of a passenger car in the antagonist train; and near a score of noble hearts, a bride and her groom, and an innocent little infant, were all disembarked into the grim hulk of Charon...Yet what's the use of complaining?... Don't the heavens themselves ordain these things...
...Police, Sting launched a solo career with the release of The Dream of the Blue Turtles, a slickly adventurous album that featured saxophonist Branford Marsalis and keyboardist Kenny Kirkland. All Sting's six solo albums have been distinctive: The Dream of the Blue Turtles, with its anti-cold war rant Russians, was the most pointed; the 1991 release The Soul Cages, much of which concerns the death of Sting's father, was the most personal. Mercury Falling stands out as his most consistently entertaining effort. The lyrics are smart but not ostentatiously cerebral. The instrumental work of Kirkland, who performs...