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...says MTV's Schuon. Explains Lisa Cortes, former president of Loose Cannon Records: "People are hungry for different stories." While alternative rock tended to be mostly white, the newer genres tend to be multiethnic. The alternative to alternative could be bands that look less like a stereotype of suburbia and more like America...
...distorted, unfounded and altogether ignorant account of modern boarding schools. While he criticizes David Hicks (the former rector of the boarding school I attended, St Paul's) for demonizing the self-interests of teenagers, Dauber himself portrays all boarding school students as conceited, arrogant, "fleece-wearing friends" from suburbia. Furthermore, Dauber confuses Hicks' view of boarding schools with the general purpose of those schools, and thus concludes erroneously that boarding schools will, in the near future, "bow out gracefully" as schools become more liberal and diverse...
...know other students for the people they are -- not for the superficial and stereotypical liberal lable-of-the-day. I think Dauber may be surprised to learn that boarding school exposed me to a greater diversity of people and ideas than I ever would have gotten at home in "suburbia." --Noble M. Hansen...
There is a hint of conspiracy here and even a dash of the apocalyptic. Hicks is no friend to modernity. He fantasizes about the rural "gardens" that were the early boarding schools, safe from the encroaching roads of suburbia. While it is true that suburbia is probably not fertile ground for great-souled heroism, Hicks' negative reaction is uncalled for and even frightening. Hicks has a dangerous vision of the world that he only partially shares with...
Imagine waking up one morning and discovering an ungainly metal tower, 150 ft. tall, looming above the trees in your front yard. No, such a contraption--a stout monopole topped with a crown of antennas--doesn't yet mar my leafy corner of suburbia. But it will soon, unless I do something about it, and that prospect has spurred me, along with my neighbors, to churn out a torrent of letters, petitions and telephone calls. Why, we wonder, must Dallas-based PrimeCo Personal Communications plop its tower in a residential area of Du Page County, Illinois, when there are plenty...