Question
Answer the following about some students who hung out in Alcove 1 of the City College lunchroom in the 1930s, for 10 points each.
[10m] The literary critic Irving Howe formed his commitment to left-wing politics in the CCNY alcoves, leading him to go on to co-found a predecessor of the DSA with this activist. He analyzed poverty in the United States in The Other America.
ANSWER: Michael Harrington
[10h] Another Irving who discussed politics in Alcove 1 had this last name. He would later turn to the right, earning the epithet “godfather of neoconservatism.” His son with this last name founded The Weekly Standard.
ANSWER: Kristol [accept Irving Kristol or Bill Kristol]
[10e] Howe, Kristol, and the rest of the Alcove 1 crew held this ideology, distinguished from the Communists of Alcove 2 by their opposition to Stalinism. The man who gave his name to this ideology was assassinated with an icepick in Mexico.
ANSWER: Trotskyism [or Trotskyite]
<RR, American History>
Summary
| 2023 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | Premiere | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Carleton University | Premiere | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Claremont Colleges | Premiere | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 0% | 100% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Imperial | Imperial | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 0% | 33% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Indiana | Premiere | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at RIT | Premiere | Y | 2 | 5.00 | 50% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at WUSTL | Premiere | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 0% | 50% |
Data
| Squidward Community College | WUSTL H2O | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Missouri A | WUSTL XYZ | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |