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...seems no relic associated with ELVIS PRESLEY is too trivial to fetch a bundle. A North Carolina man last week collected $455 by auctioning three tablespoons of water he claims once occupied a cup from which Elvis drank while performing. Wade Jones says that after an Elvis concert he attended in 1977, he was given the cup by a security guard. For decades he preserved the liquid in a sealed glass vial, but after seeing a grilled cheese sandwich ostensibly bearing an image of the Virgin Mary garner $28,000 on eBay, he decided to part with the holy Elvis...
...From different sides, ?Fahrenheit? and ?The Passion? proved that, in an era of depressingly trivial pop culture, movies can matter. I hope official Hollywood gets the message about these two message movies. Let?s see if the Motion Picture Academy takes Moore?s dare - since, with his usual hellacious chutzpah, he refused to submit it in the documentary category - and nominates it for Best Picture. In fact, if Academy members have even a pair of cojones among them, they?ll nominate both ?Fahrenheit? ?The Passion? for Best Picture of 2004. Think of it: the outraged Left vs. the religious Right...
...unduly scrutinized because of the actions of a few. For this tiny percentage of students, we implore you to take responsibility for your health and safety. It can be hard to cite non-clichéd arguments about why getting perilously drunk is bad. There are, of course, non-trivial health risks to over-drinking. Cases of sexual assaults are almost always connected to alcohol consumption. Hangovers aren’t fun. Almost every student has heard these arguments before, and sadly they’ve had little effect on the 0.1 percent of stubborn students who insist on drinking...
Things have since changed. No longer is the Western canon given its due respect. Students at some schools have the ability to ignore it altogether, spending their time taking trivial classes on pop culture or feel-good multiculturalism. This trend in higher education, which Gregg’s course embodies, has hurt the learning experience of many college students in this country, allowing them to graduate with no real sense of the intellectual tradition that created their world...
...mindless celebrity worship and inane pop culture that dominates it. Colleges should create an environment and shape a curriculum that maximizes exposure to the great works and the great thinkers of the Western tradition. Colleges fail in this purpose when they distract their students with courses focused on trivial subjects that have nothing to do with important works of the past. This is not to say that there’s no merit in studying current cultural practices or phenomena; but time in college is limited. It should be spent reading Tolstoy and Kant, not psychoanalyzing a musical from Bollywood...