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Monday, January 17, 2011

Yes, We Still Have To Do Things Twice As Well — The Jose Vilson

Yes, We Still Have To Do Things Twice As Well — The Jose Vilson

Yes, We Still Have To Do Things Twice As Well

Martin Luther King Jr. and Lyndon B. Johnson

“Why don’t the adults ever have to get into dress code? It’s bullshit.”

The student didn’t say it loud enough for the dean to hear it, but, with me standing right next to him, he could have whispered it and the message would have resonated clearly with me. The problem with his logic stems from the fact that, on that particular day, as on 178 of the 180 days of school, I was wearing a fully iron-pressed set of