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...Andrews, Streisand and dozens of others did. Why would any young person would want to be part of this antique, dead-end genre? It's like dreaming of becoming a hat blocker or a Yiddish scholar. What kid in the hinterlands would even know that a clear, crisp Broadway vocal style exists, when "American Idol" teaches that pop crooning is a demonstration of wild vibrato work and orgasmic emoting? My friend, the distinguished actor George Grizzard, watches "American Idol" and shouts with exasperation at the TV screen: "Just sing the goddamn song...
...Sunday afternoon keg return was hardly the only time Mahan took criticism for allowing a select group of advisers to publicly lead the council. Mahan’s signature issue this semester, the proposed increase in the Student Activities Fee to $75 from its previous $35, brought out vocal dissent within the council and from the student body at large. And Mahan’s executive decision-making hardly garnered him widespread support...
...Vocal dissent under the Mahan administration has hardly been limited to major council reforms. Issues ranging from awarding student groups money for “recycling and minimizing waste” to council support for gender-neutral bathrooms have generated heated opposition at council meetings this semester...
Initial talks of a Student Activities Fee hike drew a small but vocal opposition on the Undergraduate Council (UC), launching over a month of heated discussion that some council members say forced them to reconsider the structure and role of the student government. The hike’s successful passage in a student referendum led two council members to resign their positions...
Even upon first introduction to the vocal advocate for Ethnic Studies and Asian American issues on campus, one is immediately struck by how deeply she thinks about and questions everything—the operation of society, its organization, her place in it and how it can best be improved...