Word: townes
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...young and impressionable 15, and I can't quite resist the temptation to make her into a little version of me--a project toward which she is somewhat ambivalent, but generally very accommodating, in that her hair is the same color as mine, she lives in the same town as I do, etc. There is no better or more significant subject for indoctrination than the music that is such a profound part of my history and identity. Nowadays, music is a great source of happiness and interest for me. In high school it was also part of my group identity...
...into our music have mostly expanded beyond our initial categories. There are plenty of people who like Phish just because the music is good, and whose collections also include Miles Davis and the Go-Go's (well, maybe not the Go-Go's). The day I walked into my town's music store and bought both the new Indigo Girls album and the Beastie Boys' "Ill Communications," the clerk told me I won the prize for breadth of taste, and I knew I'd made a breakthrough. That said, there was something disingenuous in my suddenly picking out the Beastie...
Protestors performed rewritten carols with lyrics such as, "Oh little town of Cambridge/ your rents shoot up so high/ hard working families cannot pay/ our landlords...
Well, this past Wednesday the aforementioned administration held an informative town meeting--well-publicized and open to the public--where the matter of women on campus was the topic of discussion. Neither Sachs, nor any of the other 22 concerned council members who voted with him, bothered to show...
While Sachs and his cohorts apparently had other plans on Wednesday night, I was intrigued by his assertion that women are still at a disadvantage at Harvard. So, I went to the town hall meeting, hoping to be educated about the persistent oppression in my midst. Unfortunately, those in attendance--the usual cast of characters: the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS), the Coalition Against Sexual Violence, Perspective--had another priority...