2011 is winding down, exams are picking up, and here at The Eye we're feeling all sorts of bittersweet about our last issue of the semester. To commemorate a year well done (or just plain done), this week's lead story features nine editors' opinions on the Best of 2011. Over the next few days, we'll be featuring additional stories on Spectrum -- today, check out Tala Akhavan's Best of 2011, with the "Best Guest Speaker."
“Who are kids going to listen to more about bullying, Anderson Cooper or me—Jersey Shore celebrity?” These wise words made extraordinary what would have been another ordinary day in Diane Vaughan’s Mistake, Misconduct, Disaster: When Organizations Fail sociology course. Only twenty minutes ago, I was tapping my foot on the ground, checking my watch to see if time had disappeared—it hadn’t. Professor Vaughan had reached a lull in her lecture, mumbling as if to kill time, and periodically skipped out of the classroom for a minute at a time, leaving us to wonder if she’d become senile in the past 48 hours.
