Word: subbed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...deHart argues that it is ridiculous for Harvard to resist creating an ethnic studies program when it has a nearly 30-year-old program in Afro-American studies, which she considers to be a sub-field of ethnic studies...
Just when I thought that Harvard students had come up with all the possible unique names, categories and even sub-categories for cultural clubs, yet another combo emerges. This week's entry is the Half Asian Persons Association (HAPA). This association, formed by Christine Muraski Millett, a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in the department of East Asian languages and civilizations, hopes to congregate students of this particular biraciality to promote discussion of multicultural issues. Although a unique attempt at social awareness, HAPA's existence reinforces the ugly truth that Harvard students need to categorize and label just about everything...
...problem with forming all these sub-clubs is that it stands as testimony that the race itself--the Asian race or the African-American race--is so divided within itself that it can't function as a collective body. It implies that something is wrong within, in this case, the Asian race or the Caucasian race. What should be examined more closely are the reasons why half-Asian students do not feel welcomed in the already existing Asian clubs or with the Caucasian community and feel it necessary to take such a drastic measure such as forming a separate club...
...continue on this track, we will exhaust the sub-categories of race and soon find even more things to divide us. Religion and sexual orientation have already been used up. We'll all have to be a little more unique next time. A combination of religion, race and sexual orientation might be an interesting combination for the next divisive club this school decides to acknowledge...
...fire escapes and over roof-tops. All in a day's work for an assistant district attorney. When he catches her, she tells him that she used to take money to sleep with powerful men, but that she "likes girls, mostly," which takes care of Esterhas' requisite lesbian sub-plot. She also mentions a woman who the governor used to visit regularly who "rocked his world." The woman is called Jade...