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...undeniable: lyrics from today??s sorry state of hip-hop are atrocious and embarrassing to listen to, and they harness unneeded and negative emotions. Take the socially-aware hip-hop artist Will.I.Am—a member of the Black Eyed Peas—and the Pussycat Dolls, a girl band that is advertised as a paragon of the advancement of women, but is perhaps better known for scantily-clad dress and provocative dance movements. In their currently popular song “Beep,” Will.I.Am says, “It’s funny...
Minnesota’s regular season drew to a close last Saturday, as the Golden Gophers fell at Northwestern by the final score of 57-53. Barring a miraculous run through the Big Ten tournament, starting with today??s 2 p.m. matchup against Michigan, Minnesota will likely end up in the NIT, where Puchtel’s rollercoaster ride will come to a close. After finishing out the academic year at Minnesota, and then he will re-enroll at Harvard in the fall to complete work toward his degree...
...fetishization suggested by the recent invasion of many of rap’s holy sites by camera-toting amateur anthropologists lurk more subtle methodological problems.As tennis shoes and ghettoblasters fill gallery walls, hip-hop curators will inevitably encounter many of the same issues of performance and ephemerality that plague today??s Dada chroniclers at the National Gallery of Art.But while both art forms emphasize live improvisation and countercultural rhetoric, hip-hop is better poised to survive its museumification, just as it has outlived its earlier commercialization. Founded on the sequential exchange of lyrics over prerecorded beats...
...Candid Look At How Much Students Learn And Why They Should Be Learning More”—provides a basic outline of Bok’s arguments. Employing recent educational studies and statistics, Bok seeks to quantify the unfulfilled promise of today??s colleges. He expresses his recommended changes in clear, unpretentious prose, but he insists on their urgency...
...today??s less restrictive world, the growing appearance of confident women does not completely oppose Mansfield’s thesis, but it does question its longevity. In a recent interview with The Harvard Salient, Mansfield said, “I begin from the fact that men seem to have a quality of manliness about them that you don’t find in women, or don’t find to the same degree, or don’t find in the same...