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...that "Someone at Harvard loves me" teddy bear, you are exempt from this protest movement--who am I to crush the dreams of a child? (If you yourself simply cannot go on without a daily supply of Harvard clothes, stationary and teddy bears, you too are exempt. Because you scare...

Author: By Robin M. Wasserman, | Title: A Bow St. Revolution For All | 2/17/2000 | See Source »

...residents what they thought about the Co-op's portrayal as a radical hippie house. A significant percentage of the Co-op's residents are gay or lesbian, and while the words in the Unofficial Guide do not hold, Derika Weddington '00 suggests that if the description "would scare you away from here, then you probably don't belong here." One student protests that a biased reporter wrote the diatribe after a "bad Co-op experience." "We kind of have a mythical quality" explains Wu. "I never even considered the Co-op for a long time because someone told...

Author: By Catherina E. Lavers and Nina O. Yuen, S | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Cooperation Makes it Happen | 2/17/2000 | See Source »

Turco once again capped the night with the equalizer at 10:24, sending the game in to overtime. A scare for the Crimson came only 18 seconds later when the Red Raiders crashed the net and scored what could have been the game-winner, had one of their men not been planted in Harvard's crease...

Author: By Jennie L. Sullivan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Hockey Splits Cornell, Colgate | 2/7/2000 | See Source »

...spawn of progressive educators and Grade-D auteurs, taught kids how to be popular and to say no, to think fast and to drive slowly. These beguiling curios have been fodder for documentaries (The Atomic Cafe, with the "duck-and-cover" Civil Defense shorts), for compilation reels (Sex Hygiene Scare Films from Something Weird Video) and for the canny gibe artists of Mystery Science Theater 3000. Now they've been rescued and re-appraised by cultural critic Ken Smith in a droll, provocative study and accompanying video, Mental Hygiene: Classroom Films 1945-1970 (both issued by Blast Books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Camp in the Classroom | 2/7/2000 | See Source »

...major studios created classroom epics: Disney's 1946 cartoon The Story of Menstruation (no, Minnie's not in it) and Warner's 1962 poli-scare film Red Nightmare. You'll see a teenage Dick York (the first Darren on TV's Bewitched) as a "shy guy" who wins friends by sharing his radio-building expertise, and young Jack Lemmon, in Once Too Often, as a smug suburbanite headed for a sickening car crash. Sex Hygiene, a 1942 VD film with gross-out closeups of pustulant penises and bizarre soaping rituals, was directed for the Navy by no less than John...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Camp in the Classroom | 2/7/2000 | See Source »

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