Tag Archives: Anthropology

Anthro Major Studies Northwestern Students Studying

EVANSTON ā€“ Weinberg senior Allison Dinker has discovered that Northwestern students are a ā€œdisgusting and lazy breed of humans.ā€ The anthropology major is currently writing her dissertation on a culture never before studied academically, NU students. She is conducting her research at the Northwestern University Library. Dinker began her research last Spring, when she was studying for finals at the library. ā€œI noticed that someone had etched some strange glyphs that spelled ā€˜ORGO SUX DIXā€™ into the desk in Study

Anthropology Graduate Student Discovers Social Life

EVANSTONā€”In 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. ā€œI will not commit the error of overgeneralizingā€”often called the ā€˜ethnographic fallacy,ā€™ā€”nor yet speculate on the structural or political economic exigencies of my subjects,ā€ Dumke said, ā€œbut it appears they deploy this ā€˜social life,ā€™ if you will, to haveā€”in a hegemonically constructed, definitely not a priori or