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...model dorm room,” and Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 has spoken on the use of renewable energy at Harvard. Not to mention, there’s always the usual goodies of food and music, and of course the token EAC Nalgene. This year the festival will take place on Apr. 21, and in a new hot spot—the MAC quad, which Kuhn hopes will translate into an upgraded fair. Wilson also hopes to step up Earth Day’s game: “This year we?...
...Hour News Hour” is that the show isn’t funny, at least not in any honest way. Each joke projects the oily feeling that the writers first came up with their position planks and then attached whatever cheap joke they could find to get the token laugh...
...York City’s token ban should be considered for what it is: a symbol. A symbolically easy way to symbolically sweep the problem of recurring racism and America’s hypocritical past under a symbolic rug. Perhaps the resolution allows council-members to go home (or to voters) content, but with or without the “N” word, our society will still be bedeviled with racism. The only things we will lack, if the moratorium stands, is one word in the dictionary and a good chunk of our erstwhile-intact freedom...
...token helps white Americans feel as if race is no longer an issue. It’s a cover-up. Instead of looking at the continued racial separation in this country, people point to their one friend of the other race and feel satisfied with themselves...
...Making someone the token black person and placing him above other black people assumes that all of us—except for the token, of course—are the same. We live in a society still very much conscious of race—even if people don’t like to admit it openly. Making one black person your trustworthy token while you still view black people as a monolith will not fix the ongoing problem of race in America...