One of my classes this semester is on African Diaspora formation, identity, and culture. It is my tutorial class, which means that it is really small (only 8 students) and we are all first years. The class that meets next door to us is on protest traditions in American music. Earlier this year, our classes combined to sing the Black National Anthem together. Because this class is on music, they often play music, loudly. Our professors are friends, and the music is rarely distracting, so it hasn't been a big deal. However, last week, the music they were playing was very loud and kept interrupting us. Not to be outdone, we decided that we were going to battle, and put on a speech by Marcus Garvey. A couple minutes into the speech, the other class's music is off, and we turn off Garvey and congratulate ourselves on our victory.
Less than a minute later, the two teachers come dancing into our class with the radio over their shoulders. And then the rest of their class follows, dancing around our classroom to the tune of African resistance music. Needless to say, our class lost the battle, and we also couldn't stop laughing.
This is Hampshire in a nutshell.
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