Letter from ASG Regarding Cinco de Mayo
Every year, our campus suffers from some form of culturally offensive activity that isolates many people, sometimes entire communities.
Tag Archives: Culture
Kid With Beret Smoking Under Streetlight Tired of Accusations of Being French
EVANSTON ā Auguste Rault has faced accusations of being French ever since he came to Northwestern University with a backpack full of baguettes and cigarettes in 2010. Rault, a sophomore French major, claims that this stereotyping is evidence of a culture of ignorance prevalent among āfat, American, spoiledā Northwestern students. Rault, while moodily chain-smoking in the pouring rain, explained that people question him about whether he is French almost weekly. āItās almost as if a man canāt dwell on the
Anthropology Graduate Student Discovers Social Life
EVANSTONāIn a startling discovery garnering the attention of local news media, NU Anthropology major and incipient researcher Allison Dumke, through her immersion in local culture, has uncovered the existence of a social life. āI will not commit the error of overgeneralizingāoften called the āethnographic fallacy,āānor yet speculate on the structural or political economic exigencies of my subjects,ā Dumke said, ābut it appears they deploy this āsocial life,ā if you will, to haveāin a hegemonically constructed, definitely not a priori or