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News Editor for This Issue: Matthew M. Hoffman '91 Night Editors: Jonathan S. Cohn '91 Joseph R. Palmore '91 Philip M. Rubin '93 Eric S. Solowey '91 Madhavi Sunder '92 Editorial Editor: Jonathan L. Larew '91 Feature Editor Matthew M. Hoffman '91 Sports Editors: Michael D. Stankiewicz '91 Andrew M. Fine '91 Photo Editor: Ali F. Zaidi '92 Business Editor: Michael S. Harwayne '91 Copy Editor: Grace...
...Piano Lesson (1989). An heirloom from a slave ancestor threatens to sunder members of the Charles clan: one wants to keep it as a reminder of suffering, another would sell it to buy the farm where the family were once chattel. Playwright August Wilson was the most important American stage voice to emerge in the '80s, and this piano is the most potent symbol in American drama since Laura Wingfield's glass menagerie...
...participant in these discussions since students first initiated them two years ago, I feel compelled to address some of Sunder's misrepresentations. Contrary to her report...
...Sunder's article, and perhaps some of our students, have chosen to view these discussions among ourselves with a peculiarly conspiratorial twist. By nearly universal consensus here, we have occasionally experienced instances of offensive or violatory behavior in the past. As Master Pfister's letter points out, these may well be isolated incidents, but they also color our perceptions and inform our concerns. Would anyone among us argue that it is reasonable or appropriate, for example, to demand a blow job for a bottle of Freixenet, or to call someone a "faggot" because he or she refuses to have...
...terms of excesses; it only serves to heighten awareness and to inform. At Kirkland House, we have chosen to engage in a continuing dialogue about such issues because we care enough about the well-being of our whole community to talk about it from time to time. Ms. Sunder's misunderstandings only serve to perpetuate the worst stereotypes of our house. The Crimson has chosen to portray as "dirty laundry" what have, in fact, proven to be constructive discussions among people for whom differences of opinion are less important than a shared sense of community. Paul Bohlmann Kirkland resident tutor...