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...ethical standards. “Institutions’ deeds speak louder than their words,” he said. “These do shape characters and these do shape values.” Tufts University President Lawrence S. Bacow, who invited Summers as part of the Richard E. Snyder President’s Lecture Series, characterized boycotts by some Tufts professors as “much ado about nothing.” “I thought it was silly and in fact it had no impact,” said Bacow, who was seriously considered for Harvard?...
Like a bunch of super-butch Greeks storming Thermopylae, but with fewer casualties and a different ending, the no-star antique war drama 300 triumphed at the box office last weekend. Director Zack Snyder's adaptation of the graphic novel by Frank Miller (Sin City) pulled in $70.9 million, the highest domestic gross for a movie released in March, and third best for an R-rated film. Since sword-and-sandal epics tend to do much bigger business abroad (Gladiator 59% of its theatrical take, Troy 73%), the upside for 300 is enormous...
...know nothing of the sexual orientation of Snyder or Miller. And I'm not criticizing, only describing, 300's iconography. But I'm surprised by the movie's broad appeal to the movie block of young American males, many of whom still use "gay" as the second-worst slur, and can still see homosexuality as something to laugh at or fear. Maybe the success of 300 will encourage other, better, directors to make dead-serious movies on ancient-history subjects. And maybe, then, we'll hear kids come out of the theater burbling, "I loved that movie...
Tomorrow’s lecture also comes on the heels of several incidents that have brought issues of diversity into the spotlight at Tufts. At last fall’s Snyder Presidential lecture at Tufts, author Shelby Steele spoke out strongly against affirmative action...
...added that "only three faculty and virtually no students have expressed any concern to me about him delivering the Snyder Lecture...