Word: silent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...anonymous message, titled "A Silent Protest," suggested Chinese students were not involved in the planning and celebration of the event and said the placement of the different festivals in the sukkah was "fabricating diversity...
Peter T. Tsai '97, also a Chinese-American resident of Dunster, was equally surprised by the "silent protest" and said he was disturbed that the letter's writers seemed to suggest they spoke for all Chinese-American Dunster residents...
Another student, Hayle Chun '98, suggested another reason for the "silent protest." He said he thinks the flyer was a protest against the manner in which Dunster courtyard is made available for events...
This is no time to be silent or to whine in private and in vain. While administrators randomize the houses and ignore student input in the selection of deans, we cannot sit idle and let the Undergraduate Council remain impotent. We must not only elect leaders who care about students' rights; we must also demand those rights ourselves by keeping in touch with our representatives, by observing or participating at least a few meetings per year, by remaining informed about campus issues and by pressuring the administration directly through letters and phone calls...
Despite being trained in early modern literature according to the traditional models of analysis that continue to bear my respect, and feeling myself qualified as a cinephile for familial reasons (my father, a self-educated individual had such an abiding love for silent film that my childhood was spent in front of 16-millimeter films) it seemed propitious to launch a course on French cinema. It began with an enrollment of 120, soon split into two sections ("realism" and "new wave"), and then ramified into seminar-topics ("auteur" theory, structural cinema, cinema of cruelty...). The course became something...