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...Matthew was in many ways a wake-up call" for college homosexuals, Windmeyer says. He argues that allowing gays to become Greeks may be the best way to combat campus homophobia. What's more, he adds, since many politicians cut their teeth in frats, a place at the Greek table can't hurt gay graduates in the job market and the political arena...
...wake-up call for all of us,” Traugott said. “We have to regroup so we can show the rest of the league that we’re better than what we showed this weekend...
...wake-up song is key, and the unabashedly loud, melodramatic beats of the ’80s start my day with a taut drum line, an over-emoted chorus and a definite pop. Some people seem to regard this decade with horror, but I’m convinced that, as a pre-teen in the ’80s, I completely missed a wave of exciting music. To rectify this missed-timing, I joined the Leverett House Committee (HoCo) with the express purpose of organizing the Leverett ’80s Dance. Bon Jovi’s dramatic power ballads...
...brink of an explosion of white "tribalism" that could trigger unprecedented levels of racial antagonism and an epidemic of violence. The underlying cause: a swelling "white nationalist" movement fueled by simmering resentment of affirmative action programs like those used by the University of Michigan. "The book is a wake-up call to warn people that we're following a dangerous course by pushing identity politics and multi-culturalism," explains the Vanderbilt law school professor. "There's nothing special about the U.S. that says we couldn't have ethnic cleansing and violence here like in Bosnia or Rwanda...
Likewise in Dallas, where the problem continues to worsen, the homeless complain of cops delivering wake-up calls from their car loudspeakers by blaring "Wake up, crackheads!" and handing out vagrancy tickets. "It doesn't make you want to go and rejoin society," says Gary Jones, 36, a laid-off welder. "What's lower than writing a man a ticket for sleeping on the street? If he had somewhere else to go, don't you think he'd be there...