Word: yearbooks
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Both race and class became big issues, however, during Lott's years at Ole Miss, which had no black students when he arrived in 1959. There the student yearbook invoked the charms of "darkies singing softly in the moonlight" along the levee. Social life and student politics were dominated by the big fraternities and sororities, where Lott encountered sons and daughters of Delta planters who looked down not only on blacks but also on members of the smaller Greek organizations and the "independent" students who either couldn't get accepted into a fraternity or sorority or couldn't afford...
...cause of this clonal empathy wouldn't be that your inner life was exactly like your clone's (it wouldn't be). The catalyst, rather, would be seeing that familiar face--the one in your high school yearbook, except with a better haircut. It would remind you that you and your clone were essentially the same, driven by the same hopes and fears. You might even feel you shared the same soul. And in a sense, this would be true. Then again, in a sense, you share the same soul with everyone...
...until he was 14. A year after Raines left, Franklin High School was tight with racial tension, which eventually fueled riots in Seattle's Central Area. But the Class of 1967 was still a harmonious blend of Asians, blacks and whites, and Raines was its star. The yearbook could hardly hold all his honors--student-body president, gifted singer, statewide debate champ and a nearly 4.0 average. Though he was slightly built and wore enormous glasses, Raines was even captain of the football team. "Mr. Everything," the Seattle Times called him when he got a four-year scholarship to Harvard...
Aheto is business manager and president of the Yearbook, and Hobbs is active in organizations including Crimson Key, the Prefect Program, House and Neighborhood Development program (HAND) and the Black Students' Association...
Over the past three years, the marshals have been involved in a variety of activities on campus, including the Yearbook, CityStep, Mission Hill, the Institute of Politics, the Crimson Key Society, the University Lutheran homeless shelter, the prefecting program, One to One, HAND and the Harvard Political Review...