I was delighted to hear that at long last true advancements in diversity have been made at ivory, I mean Ivy League universities:
“A Harvard student has become the first in the university's history to submit a rap album for his senior thesis.
Student Obasi Shaw, who will graduate from the prestigious university next week, produced his album Liminal Minds while other classmates wrote novels, poems, and short stories.
The 10-track album is the first to be submitted as a senior thesis at the university, and weaves inspiration from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales with the current race issues.
Mr Shaw was awarded a summa cum laude minus mark for his album - the second highest grade a student can receive in the department.
"[African-Americans are] free, but the effects of slavery still exist," Mr Shaw told the Harvard Gazette. "Each song is an exploration of that state between slavery and freedom." On that:
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Did you enjoy that as much as I did?
We have seen the Piss Christ proclaimed as art:
, a crucifix submerged in a glass of the artist’s urine. Such is the state of modern art. How about then, submitting a large dried turd for a PhD in Cultural Studies, or jointly, with the Visual Arts Department? Is there really any good argument against that in the postmodern university?
And it is all paid for out of your taxes:
Under the God of Things
