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...lose.") In reality, of course, they're not fanatics: The groups which run Jesus Week are just trying to give an avenue for Christians to express their religion on campus. But why, for me, does the faith of my fathers now seem more like the faith of Ralph Reed and Bob Jones...
That was me a year ago. And then I get Ecstasy lying on my desk after months of anticipation, and what's staring at me is a picture of Lou Reed's face (mind you, he's around 58 by my calculations, and it shows) and what looks like Darth Maul's light saber coming out of his neck on both sides. So I do the obvious thing and stick the album on. And almost instantly it hits me. The problem isn't that this is a bad album-it really isn't -but that the best thing...
What made Lou Reed famous was the work he did with Velvet Underground, the music that's influenced almost every single band that now goes under the "alternative" label. And even after the band put away the instruments, Reed continued writing songs that were relevant, more penetrating than broken glass, and so very dangerously subversive. Too bad that the subversion doesn't work here. The drugs and sex lyrics just aren't shocking any more, and they aren't sharp, either. They're just the stuff Lou Reed used to do well. "I do Lou Reed better than anybody...
...There's one instrumental on the album, and it sounds as sublime as anything I've heard, but then there are the other songs where it sounds like Reed's sampling himself. When I put on the album I knew I'd heard these songs before; that's because they sound just like his '80s albums, except now maybe with more pathos but less energy, less dexterity. In the end this album just creates nostalgia for the '70s, when this album would've sounded more fresh and brilliant than anything else you were supposed to hide from your parents...
Students at Brown, on the other hand, participate in a curricular advising program, in which faculty members offer courses to first-years whom they will also advise, says Brown Associate Dean of the College Joyce Reed. Additionally, each student is assigned an upperclass "Meickeljohn" adviser who can provide more up-to-date academic advice...