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...because the organization that ran the ceremony, the Junior League of they City of New York, had a long history with The Chapin School, her alma mater. Ma and Chapin classmate Catherine K. Gyllerstrom ’05 also defy debutante myths in that neither one is the stereotypical WASP. While Ma is half-Asian, Gyllerstrom is Greek and Swedish. However, Gyllerstrom was born into the debutante tradition, though not in the conventional sense. Gyllerstrom’s mother represented Greece at the International Ball, which is held every year in New York City. This Christmas, Gyllerstrom will also...
...GOSSIP GUY MAILBAG: Horatio R. Sherman ’02, known to Gossip Guy readers as the über-WASP who was accused of fornicating with an underage, homeless crack fiend, writes to offer his side of the story. “I did not TOUCH that 14-year-old at the Owl,” he says. “She did not have a place to stay. She slept in our common room. Ask either of my roommates!” Further investigation revealed that Sherman in fact lives in a Pforzheimer single. He could...
...other American flags. The whole thing smacks of a conspiracy by the American Flag Production Industry. The larger the ethnic group that fears for their safety, the more American flags get sold. This explains the sudden abundance of “Is your neighbor really a WASP or is he just another terrorist?” and “Got Flags? Oh, you must be a terrorist, then” billboards along our nation’s highways...
...lawsuits. Meanwhile, few things are more socially disapproved than inauthenticity or a refusal to face reality. In choosing confrontation, you embrace the "community" of your fellow victims--another socially approved value. In choosing denial, you are guilty of "self-hatred," like a Jew or an African American putting on Wasp airs or--worse--trying to "pass" as a white Christian...
...clubs as the last bastions of student social life in Harvard Square. Others deride them as elitist, since they exclude the majority of Harvard students from membership. This exclusivity really irks the clubs’ opponents, who claim that the clubs are the last remaining vestiges of the old WASP elite at Harvard...