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Friday, November 04, 2005
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Tunnel of Oppression Season Erin O’Connor, at Critical Mass , chronicles this semester’s Tunnels of Oppression at various colleges and universities. Tunnels of Oppression move students through dark sequences of rooms in which upsetting multimedia assaults upon the students (voices yelling “Faggot” at them, etc.) make them feel what it feels like to be a member of an oppressed group. UD’s own institution decided to take a slightly different approach to its tunnel this year. It decided to honor the American university’s burgeoning population of older students by inaugurating the “Carpal Tunnel of Oppression.” The student’s tour through the tunnel begins with a greeting from a carpal tunnel hand  . Students are then led into a room with the following sign on its walls:  In the middle of the room, an inviting computer desk allows students to sit and use a therapeutic anti-carpal tunnel mouse:  Finally, as they exit the tunnel, students are encouraged to place their hands in a special carpal-tunnel-pain-mimicking glove. 
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