Re: at the ballgame

[Alex J. Lubet <lubet001...>]

I always get very good teaching evaluations, but there's an internet 'service'
that posts negative evals about faculty across the country and my are always
quite the opposite of the official ones, which are actually far more anonymous.
One of the complaints I get and quite virulently is that I'm Jewish.  They also
don't care much for the fact that I'm short and that I discuss issues of race in
my rock music class, where it's nearly impossible not to (it's in the textbook,
as well).  Seems that in Minnesota, many students consider any discussion of
race or ethnicity to be 'racist'.  Proper MN protocol is to pretend one doesn't
notice.  The movie 'Fargo' pretty much sums up MN passive aggression, albeit a
tad hyperbolically.  Hardly a surprise that it's the product of the Coen
brothers, originally from St. Louis Park, MN (Al Franken, too).



Marvin Margoshes wrote:

> A waiter in our favorite Italian restaurant in Yonkers used to hum Hava
> Nigila as he worked. I asked him how he knew it, and he said it was from
> working at Jewish parties in Argentina.  Later, he first told us that some
> customers objected when he played it over the restaurant's sound system, and
> then that he is Jewish.  Not longer after, he left the restaurant, but I
> don't know why.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alex J. Lubet" <lubet001 (at) umn(dot)edu>
> To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 7:28 PM
> Subject: Re: at the ballgame
>
> > I recall hearing it growing up in Chicago, too.
> >
> >
> >
> > SICULAR (at) aol(dot)com wrote:
> >
> > > the organist just cranked out Hava Nagila at Yankee Stadium as a
> hometeam
> > > batter was in a pressure spot ... I don't watch or go to games during
> the regular
> > > season; bet that only happens in NY though, as far as a rallying cry in
> major
> > > league American sports.
> > >
> > > any other instances like that, baseball (or other sports) fans?
> > > =================Eve
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> > --
> > Alex Lubet, Ph. D.
> > Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of Music and Jewish Studies
> > Adjunct Professor of American Studies
> > University of Minnesota
> > 2106 4th St. S
> > Minneapolis, MN 55455
> > 612 624-7840 612 624-8001 (fax)
> >
> >
> >
>

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Alex Lubet, Ph. D.
Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of Music and Jewish Studies
Adjunct Professor of American Studies
University of Minnesota
2106 4th St. S
Minneapolis, MN 55455
612 624-7840 612 624-8001 (fax)


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