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Three songs into an excruciatingly dense set of precisely performed ear-wrenching rumbles, lead singer and guitarist Justin Trosper introduced his band with a nonchalance that foretold the group's indifference to the audience: "Oh yeah, we're Unwound." Only the most self-absorbed rockers embrace such inconsideration...
...hooted at the short-winded announcement despite Unwound's apparent unwillingness to crank out an hour of its revered gangly rock. All-too-willing fans were complacently standing by ready to accept whatever sonic sludge was dealt out to them, no matter how unfeeling or unresponsive. "That's right," Trosper smugly responded to the shouts under his breath. Members of Unwound were masters of manipulation for the evening as the audience played right into the scheme...
...anyone not familiar with the vaguely apathetic consensus which keeps the Harvard system running smoothly, the HPC must seem a strange breed of student government. Masters handpick 14 students, and the dean takes the students' case to the Faculty. Former chairman Trosper, commenting on the educational liberalism of some professors says, "students have to run pretty hard to keep up with some of the Faculty members...
...sheltered above by the good will of Monro and below by the apathy of the masses, from ever having actually to define its role. Established by student referendum to "cooperate with Faculty and administration," the HPC has played it just that way. It sees its role, in Trosper's words, as "providing a structured way to present student opinion in some semblance of a well thought-out consensus. Then we have to trust in the Faculty's ability and willingness to listen to reason." Most students and Faculty members, chairman Norr feels, "respect the HPC in a vague...
HENRY -- Daniel L. Freudenberger of Rochester, N.Y. (Oxford Dramatic Society): Ronald L. Trosper of Milwaukee, Wis. (Cambridge): and Ingrid J. Lorch of New York (Cambridge...