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This is the third time that an MIT fraternity has appeared before the board in two years. The first of these incidents, the 1997 death of fraternity pledge Scott Krueger after a night of drinking, thrust MIT's drinking policy into the national spotlight...
Though much of her research centers on the consumption behavior of adults, Schor says her theory of consumer society can be applied to Harvard--where many students are "thrust" into a reference group that is relatively affluent...
...great misunderstanding. In Littleton it seemed that the tragedy was unambiguous: Two high school students killed their classmates in a library. However, the lesson learned was a misunderstanding of epic proportions, one that has surreptitiously stolen the debate away from the arena of gun-control and counseling and thrust it into the revival tent of Bible-thumping Baptists...
This brings us to the thrust and bearing of the movie. Precious little about the progress of the film has been revealed to the public by 20th Century Fox. Along with vague trailers, promotional material released to The Crimson doesn't divulge much as to what the story is about, but the director and stars seem to be continually lauding one aspect of the film: it will be epic. I don't just mean an epic, but the epic love story that attempts to bridge the gap between two very different cultures at the same time. Consequently, it is normal...
...almost as if we had been thrust back in time to when English aristocrats pioneered their way across the Atlantic, returning to the supposedly established Jamestown Colony. Expecting to find a thriving community of their fellow kinsmen, the travelers were instead confronted with an all-but-dead village, ungodly weather conditions, a scarcity of food, and a longing to return to civilized society. And for those of us who returned to campus on September 10, when the College was gracious enough to open the upperclass houses, we can empathize with the British colonists of days past...