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...Spontaneously between numbers. band members broke out into a "how to make any song country" lesson. Countryfying various tunes like "We Ain't Gonna Take It," "Billy Jean" and "Whiter Shade of Pale," Pat laughed, "This is the kind of [stuff] we listen...
This campus should be asking itself questions about who benefits from the homogenization of House life. Is it the students, for whom "House stereotypes" often meant a caring, tolerant community within the larger, straighter, whiter Harvard world? Or is it the administrators who no longer have to deal with the unseemly issue of self-segregation? Perhaps if the administration is intent on eradicating any semblance of a minority community in house life, they should at least ponder the idea of a cultural center. Randomization shouldn't be accepted by undergrads simply because it's the status...
...time spring break rolled around, I was a sorry sight. All the hours I had spent indoors trying to churn out my thesis made me an even whiter shade of pale. My late night diet consisted of oreos that I washed down with Pepsi. Upon our final meeting, my adviser stopped in his tracks to ask me if I was all right. "You don't look so good," he told me. But all this did not matter when one thought came into my head--BAHAMAS...
That's because this is an issue of authority and respect, and most people see Sprewell--with his history of bad behavior and flashiness--as an extreme case to be made an example of. When other coaches were interviewed about the problems in the league, the older, whiter group repeatedly used the terms "respect for authority" and "lack of discipline." With their power eroding, coaches like Carlesimo and Don Nelson--who have a history of losing records and losing personalities--can't think of any way to earn respect other than yelling louder...
...fact, American Canvas takes a more Mapplethorp-friendly but no less aesthetically reductive view: "[T]he arts community has long labored under a stubbornly persistent class system of its own, one that continues to haunt the field...a demographic profile that tends to be older, wealthier, better educated, and whiter than a typical cross-section of the American public." One prescription: "No longer restricted solely to the sanctioned arenas of culture, the arts would be literally suffused throughout the civic structure...from youth programs and crime prevention to job training and race relations--far afield from the traditional aesthetic functions...