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...What to seek out and what to avoid, from Heidi Klum to Frankenstein...
...stereotype that black men are not professional.” A noble ideal, indeed. But it begs the question: What’s really the issue here? Are people not provided enough positive images of black men? Or are they using their socially constructed heuristics and stereotypes to seek out information that confirms what they already believe? Given the damage inflicted by the Lowell incident, in spite of all of the walking positive images of black men to be found right on this campus, I’d have to agree with the latter. Those who see minorities through...
...irritatedly familiar, for example, with the phenomenon of earworms - catchy tunes that loop in our heads, even when we detest them. This "defenseless engraving of music on the brain," Sacks suggests, is a result of the precision with which most of us can replay music internally; built to seek stimuli, the brain rewards itself for its fidelity with perfect repeats of songs. But for the patients in Sacks' book who suffer musical hallucinations - a related and not uncommon condition in which imaginary music seems to come from an outside source that can't be turned off - the results are often...
...simple student fashion show with ultimately good intentions. Nevertheless, in its aspirations towards the designer stratosphere, Project East calls into question some of the complications that surround the high cultural valuation of elite brands and designer labels. As the self-designated spokesperson for Asian designers, perhaps it should seek awareness of fashion consumerism’s impact on the Asian region as well. After all, it is the priority of developed and developing economies worldwide to fulfill the needs of the societies they reflect. To determine what these needs are, each one of us has the social responsibility to decide...
...federal supremacy clause so that they could avoid Cuomo’s code while making it seem like they were proactively reforming themselves.The discrepancy in federal and state regulation would not be such a problem if there was not a strong possibility that student lenders would actively seek loopholes and adhere to the lowest standards of the law. As corporations serving financially inexperienced students and non-profit universities, one might assume that lenders are altruistic to some extent—or at least that universities would assume responsibility as an impartial judge of lenders. However, the recent scandals prove that...