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Despite the cries of campus conservatives like Sebastian Conley's "Seth Lives" that Harvard doesn't want to understand conservatives, it's hard to believe that they're suffering too badly. All it takes to be a right-winger here is to rewrite history, to turn Abigail Adams into a submissive hausfrau and strip the Confederate Flag of all its racist overtones. To paraphrase Molly Ivins, afflicting the afflicted and comforting the comfortable may have the charm of novelty, but it's not exactly courageous...
Syracuse, an up-and coming team, will feature backstroker Jamie Secor and butterfly specialist Sebastian Goulet...
...have been meaning to write for a few months now to complain about the offensive brand of humor relied upon by one of your cartoonists, Sebastian Conley. Imagine my surprise when I opened The Crimson (April 30) and was greeted with a "political cartoon" by Mr. Conley that actually contained a premenstrual-syndrome joke. Until now, I had been hesitant to write and complain about Mr. Conley, knowing how kindly this community is to feminists who complain about sexist jokes (Q: How many feminists does it take to screw in a light bulb? A: That's not funny...
...writing in response to Sebastian Conley's cartoon--yes, cartoons--of April 9, 1993. While I normally appreciate Conley's daring lampoons of everything from Harvard life to the Clinton Administration, I found his personal attack on "Natasha" to be a grave misuse of your newspaper. Even the cartoon page should not serve as a pulpit for the sort of childish vituperation perpetrated by Conley...
...desiccated exercise its premise -- doppelgangers, Identity vs. the True Self -- might suggest. The author admits that the subject of real or imaginary doubles has been pretty thoroughly and bookishly exhausted by everything from Oscar Wilde's Picture of Dorian Gray to Vladimir Nabokov's The Real Life of Sebastian Knight: "I knew all about these fictions about the fictions of the self-divided, having decoded them as cleverly as the next clever boy some four decades earlier in college. But this was no book I was studying or one I was writing . . ." Here a slight demurral seems appropriate: this...