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...lucky crash over the edge of the cement onto your palms, now blood-stained. You think? Yes, but only about your blood-stained palms and what a close call it was. You think that you would have screamed at the driver, but that you sort of appreciated the wake-up notice...
...question is, Will the impact last? "Every five or seven years, Hollywood gets a wake-up call," says Reuben Cannon, a black producer and TV casting agent. "It started with She's Gotta Have It in 1986. But the studios forget that the most active filmgoing audience is African Americans. If you make films, they will come, but it's got to be a quality film...
Scott's death was a horrific, unnecessary and senseless tragedy. It is hard to have a death be so public, yet, Scott's death can only be meaningful if others know about it. The public response to his death-which has been great-can be a wake-up call for a system in desperate need of change. I hope it can be a catalyst for all of us-MIT, fraternities and individuals-to rethink our behavior, to remember how fragile life is, and to recommit ourselves to truly living each moment to its fullest. --Bill Burke-White...
Well, it does. So take Scott Krueger's death as a wake-up call. Realize that 18-year-old Americans, especially males, are 18-year-old Americans, whether they attend a state school or an Ivy League one. And binge drinking will not go away until there is a radical change in American attitudes toward alcohol. Ala Alryyes, a former MIT undergraduate and graduate student and current instructor in Harvard's history and literature department explained that "the main problem here is a cultural problem, an American problem....The anglo-saxon take on drinking is that you drink...
Other students, such as senior Stacy S. Yu, see the tragedy as a wake-up call for private universities nationwide...