Word: socialize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Owning and cultivating a lawn became a fabulous new way for the social elite to compete in the conspicuous consumption of leisure. A great deal of money was required to buy the materials, hire a designer and planters, and have either gardeners or animals shave it down to its optimum length. When the upper echelons of colonial society returned from their European travels with news of the latest in fashion, food, and home decor, they brought the lawn with them--it came from Old to New England with all its attendant symbolism...
...After his closing remarks, I rise with the rest of the crowd to applaud. The next panel on social responsibility is less inspiring--when asked if there exists a unifying philosophy behind hip-hop, one record company executive states that "the one thing that I think every artist can agree on is the desire for artists to own their own masters." Rather than ruin my newfound zeal for hip-hop, I tune out and sift through the ideas in KRS-1's keynote address...
Founded five years ago as part of the University's focus on interdisciplinary study, ESPP is one of the most wide-ranging concentration in the College. Concentrators must take 16 half courses in the natural and social sciences, including chemistry, mathematics, biology, economics and government...
...thing I felt was discouraging was that the ESPP concentration didn't help enough with thesis preparation," Kanter said. "There's nothing unified for the department in terms of advising, particularly for the thesis. They could learn from the Social Studies Department who puts together a seminar on how to prepare for a thesis. I don't entirely blame the ESPP committee though because they are borrowing faculty from other departments...
Wang said the protests by students and other democratic leaders were "unavoidable social confrontations" in China...