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What do 80-year-old grandmothers in Chinatown, baggy-pants-wearing youth in the Bay Area and haute couture have in common? At least one Harvard student is trying to find a connection.Originally conceived by Nathan P. Gunawan ’07, “Identities: A Fashion Show” attempts to explore the various facets of Asian-American culture through the medium of fashion. The fashion show, organized by the Asian American Association (AAA), will take place on Saturday, April 7 at 9 pm in the Lowell House dining hall.DIVERSITY AND DISTINCTION“What we wanted...
...kids aren’t alright. It’s a point many jaded indie rockers are making today, and no one does it better than Isaac Brock. He’s been leading Modest Mouse and damaged American youth on a path through a broken landscape of isolation, alienation, and despair since 1996’s “This is a Long Drive for Someone With Nothing to Think About,” and the road continues through their latest outing, “We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank...
...interested in how technology plays into it.” By which he means video games.“Interactive media is a powerful combination of games, narratives, communication tools, and modeling,” says Decker.While this might conjure memories of one’s youth, sprawled on the basement floor, collecting Donkey Kong’s bananas or arguing over who gets to race as Mario, don’t let the term “video games” mislead. Video games are more than just pixels on a screen, touching not only the art community...
...Crayola color-namer’s recent colors (“Sad Red…Really Sad Blue…Divorce Sienna…Divorce Brown”), and a host of other scenes that form a whir of brief, existential episodes.By playing with our notions of youth, Rich pulls off in short bursts what Roald Dahl did so well in his novels. Children are endowed with the mannerisms, insights, and burdens of adults. And the adults, well, they sound like children.The achievement, aside from laughs, is an emotional work that often draws deep meaning, as in the title...
...numerous “at-risk” students from the Harvard community attend intimate sessions called “study groups” at the hope of the staff of scaring the kids straight. The large number of these students implied a failure in America’s youth prevention programs. Despite naming schools after and erecting monuments for notable assassinated politicians, within some communities children don’t heed the warning and latch onto the glamorized image of politicians offered by television, movies, and especially video games. Real life encounters with actual politicians succeeds where state-mandated...