The Subtle Treachery of ‘Benign’ Racism
07 March 2001
When you work at the library like I do, you are bound to be attacked by a book every now and then. They leap off shelves armed with hard, sharp corners. But I’m a trooper. I can take the physical pain. Unfortunately, the books in the library are often (literally) stuck with something a lot [...]
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Michael Marlow Responds
23 February 2001
made the assumption that Orozco’s murals were serious art. My article was not about the Orozco murals except in how they related to the Hovey Murals. I did not think it was appropriate for me to extensively research Orozco’s work, given the scope of my article. My understanding of the Orozco murals is that they [...]
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Letters to the Editorial Board
23 February 2001
o the Editors: I would like to respond to Michael Marlow’s recent article “Racist Hovey Murals Not Worth Costs of Preservation” (January 23, 2000). Mr. Marlow writes about Humphrey’s song, that the words show “disrespect for Orozco”, as if this is, in itself, a bad thing. Perhaps Orozco was a jerk. Perhaps he was commissioned [...]
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Common Share – 1.3
23 February 2001
Indentured Journalism Journalism schools encourage their students to publish widely, right? Durga Raghunath, a graduate student at the Indiana University School of Journalism, recently found out otherwise. After Raghunath wrote a piece for a local alternative newspaper, The Bloomington Independent, she was told she could no longer write for the campus paper, The Indiana Daily Student. [...]
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U.S. Firms Test Drugs Unethically Abroad
23 February 2001
The mantra of capitalism is that you have to spend money to make money. Must the same be true about human life? The exploitation of human beings for drug testing in developing countries is becoming an increasingly common practice. Major drug companies make experiments on people in the developing world in unregulated tests that are [...]
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Media Aims for Accurate Count in Florida
23 February 2001
Democrats really hate to lose. But what really gets their goat is losing ? and then finding out that they didn’t really. New numbers trickling in from the Florida media recounts are surely rubbing salt in Democratic wounds. They are revealing a consistent trend: net gains in votes for Al Gore even in strongly Republican areas. The [...]
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Disenfranchised For Life
23 February 2001
he narrow margin of the 2000 U.S. presidential election has spawned a great deal of debate about how to make the voting process more fair and accurate. All the talk about hanging chads and partially impregnated dimples might be necessary to streamline the process, but it glosses over one of the greatest injustices in our [...]
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California Struggles With Effects of Power Deregulation
23 February 2001
It wasn’t just a typical case of poor planning. In California, blackout warnings for San Luis, Cupertino and numerous other counties have continued for weeks at a time. Electricity bills for consumers have doubled and even tripled in some regions. And skyrocketing electricity prices have forced many small businesses to close. That California is suffering an [...]
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Which Traditions? Losing Sight of the Real Dartmouth
23 February 2001
he indoctrination begins during freshmen DOC trips. Dozens of impressionable young adults sit in a crowded room while older students direct them in learning the alma mater. The leaders recite the song passionately, but exceptional attention is paid to a particular verse. With loud voices and a few raised fists, they declare, "Dear old Dartmouth, [...]
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National Missile Defense
23 February 2001
"The most dangerous man in America" has yet to take center stage. In the flurry of opposition to Bush’s choice of John Ashcroft as Attorney General, Donald Rumsfeld, was confirmed as Secretary of Defense with barely a whimper from the media. Rumsfeld’s career in public service has been a lengthy one including serving as a [...]
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