Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This latest development may seem minor, but it is indicative of the antagonistic role that the College has come to take in its students' lives, in subjects ranging from social life to advising to quality of teaching. No, it is not the College's responsibility to provide students with social opportunities, as Dean Harry R. Lewis '68 has pointed out, but in maintaining a paternalistic, stifling framework within which students must choose their social activities, the administration only augments dissatisfaction among its students and ultimately creates an undesirable community of Malcontent individuals. Someday the College may come to understand this...
From the start one expects something impressive: written by a Romanian-born poet, essayist and English professor whose last novel,The Blood Countess,was a national bestseller, Messiah promises to stun the reader. The dust jacket insists that "mordant social commentary and incandescent characters" lie within. A short plot summary instantly intrigues. And so one has every reason to expect a marvel between the covers of Messiah. Unfortunately, one has just as many reasons to be disappointed...
...mordant" social commentary referred to in the dust jacket doesn't get very far. The Internet is judged to be addictive. Drugs are seen as the modern equivalent of slavery. Television hypnotizes people. Consumption of Big Macs is morally reprehensible. No one needs to read a novel to figure these things out; one needs only to look around...
Noah D. Oppenheim '00 is a social studies concentrator in Adams House. His column appears on alternate Fridays...
...When we [seniors] see each other we talk about two things: what we're doing next year or our thesis," says Jobe G. Danganan '99, a social studies concentrator writing a thesis on Christianity, racism and racial reconciliation of the African-American experience from the 1960s to the 1990s. "We call it the T-word or the T-bird...