You've Got a Friend in Me
This is the transaction/vehicle that allows Hua and Ken to communicate.
What is smoking/cigarettes?
In defending his friendship with Sammi, Hua tells Ken, “I think calling someone ____ is reductive and dehumanizing.”
What is “hot?”
In a paper Ken wrote for the Zine, he criticized this professional sports team that Hua was a childhood fan of.
What is the “San Francisco Giants?”
Student protestors chained themselves to the railing at the summit of this building.
What is the campus clock tower?
Ken questioned Hua’s persona, asking why Hua insisted on being so this.
What is weird?
Anthony’s major at Berkeley is this.
What is business?
“Hua has a lot of things to say, but can’t ____”
What is “be bothered to say it?”
An Iranian American kid in Hua and Ken’s year started a controversial class that revolved around this artist.
Who was “Tupac Shakur”?
Hua’s desk consisted of two filing cabinets and this.
What is a door?
Sean claimed partial identity as a New Yorker for this reason.
What is having briefly lived in New Jersey as a child?
According to Derrida and Hua, friendship is about this rather than that.
What is the willingness to know rather than be known?
Ken signs off his letter to Hua with this fitting closing remark.
What is “Stay true, Ken?”
While friends returned from parties, Hua and Ken were wisecracking about this concept with conservatives in internet chat rooms.
What is “Humane Capitalism”?
Anti-corporate Zines and fliers could be collected at this location.
What is the Left wing bookstore?
Hua felt this emotion when the owner of an elitist record store put his zine up for sale.
What is flattery?
Hua took it as a sign of personal growth that he could be friends with someone who felt this way.
What is loving Pearl Jam, or preferring Pearl Jam to Nirvana?
‘My life has always been a dream.” This person said this line.
Who is Ken’s ex-girlfriend?
This philosopher critiques Malinowski’s notion of gift giving as transactional, and introduces the concept of delayed reciprocity instead.
Who is Mauss?
The affirmative action organization of protestors demonstrated at this campus location.
What is the Sather Gate?
Hua defined himself by what he ___.
What is rejected?
Hua thinks this is happening to him, Dave, and Paraag at the barbecue on the off-campus rooftop with Ken.
What is he thinks they are pledging to a fraternity?
The light felt rich with ____.”
(CRYPTIC CROSSWORD BONUS HINT!!! An oracle scrambles a pair of eyes in her pots.)
What is “possibility?”
This philosopher proposed deconstruction and critiqued dichotomies.
Who is Derrida?
Ken moved to this road after leaving the frat house.
What is College Avenue?
Hua finds these two things surprising about the fact that Ken identified as a man without culture.
What are the dramatic tone of the sentiment and the fact that Ken saw himself as a man?