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Star may or may not be aware that his thesis about nihilism destroying the African-American community through negativity, such as hard-core rap, is consistent with a body of literature in social theory (See the work of Professor Cornel West '74). I contend that Star's myopic perspective prevents...
"I don't think it's cannibals [for the sake of studying cannibals] because it hasn't been studied before," said James J. McNamara, a senior English concentrator writing his thesis on horror. "There are some interesting ways of looking at cannibal as metaphor."
This sort of change may seem somewhat drastic at first. After all, we would be asking people to give up some of their academic pursuits to act as senior tutors. Yet, is it any more difficult for a faculty member to do the job than a graduate student, who is...
"I think it's a very, very hard thing to be a graduate student writing a thesis while you're a senior tutor," Lewis said.
That's pretty much the message of How to Make an American Quilt, as received by Finn (Winona Ryder), a graduate student who spends a small-town summer with her grandmother and aunt (Ellen Burstyn and Anne Bancroft), working on her thesis and getting her head together. As things work...