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...high school in South London. The trio of main characters includes scheming, crude Keisha (imagine a black female Eric Cartman); Natella, the earnest South Asian class brain; and Latrina, the bigoted white working-class bombshell. Like many good satires, Bromwell is rooted in the idea that shallowness and venality transcend color and creed. The faculty ranges from an assortment of Anglo ignoramuses to Iqbal, the greedy, sleazy Middle Eastern headmaster. And when the immigrant students discuss their favorite foods and cultural activities for a diversity-day assembly, they all choose KFC and text messaging. Bromwell is a rude cannonball splash...
Janeane Garofalo fails to transcend her real-life stature as the towering giraffe Bridget—Benny’s love interest. Most unfortunately, the omni-talented pansexual Eddie Izzard is barely intelligible as Nigel the blathering British koala. I suppose the second-rate direction by first-timer Steve “Spaz” Williams is to blame...
Harvard’s House system isn’t working. Shorn of their pre-randomization characters and rendered impotent by insular blocking groups, the College’s 12 Houses can’t possibly hope to transcend their own bricks and mortar to become viable incubators of community. A significant change in how Harvard assigns its students is long overdue; since randomized housing, any success at creating House community has come in spite of the system, which fricassees House populations into complete incoherence along blocking group lines...
Some students have punctured ethnic boundaries. The Black Students Association, the Chinese Students Association, Fuerza Latina, and Native Americans of Harvard College all boast memberships that transcend ethnic lines...
...hand, the Foundation gives out about 130 grants every year, of varying size, for events like an intercollegiate conference for Latino students. On the other, HAC brings together 50-plus students of all colors to work for the same cause. The Foundation celebrates difference. The HAC and similar organizations transcend it.None of this is meant to demean the mission of the Foundation, nor the soon-to-be women’s center. Like I said before, I think they have their place. The key fact, though, is that a women’s center, the BGLTSA resource center...