Ca$h Hurts Africa
16 April 2010
Aid and the well being of Africa are so inextricably linked in today’s culture that to question the value of the former seems utterly sacrilegious. However, this is exactly what Dambisa Moyo PhD discussed on April 1 over lunch with the Great Issues Scholars. Born and raised in Zambia, Moyo received her BA and MBA at American University in Washington, D.C., her Masters at Harvard and her Ph.D in economics at Oxford. She went to work at the World Bank in D.C. and now has worked for eight years at Goldman Sachs in debt capital markets, hedge fund coverage and in global macroeconomics. She signed copies of her book Dead Aid for the scholars. Her book expounds on the controversial topic of her talk in Moore Hall.
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DIY Microfinance
16 April 2010
Over Spring break, I went to Ghana on behalf of WomensTrust, a microfinance institution, to help fix their operations. Yet, I didn’t go as a white knight. I was not the savior for a poor, ignorant people, nor were the local people on the staff supplicants to my “developed world knowledge.” I was a partner, someone who had a few specialized skills that could help them and at the same time learn from them. I did not sweep in to grandly dictate to them how things should be. To do so would be to disregard the fact that they were intelligent human beings who knew the situation best—they were, after all, the ones living in it.
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Apoca-Blitz
16 April 2010
To me, switching away from Blitzmail means giving up on the beautiful dream of a decentralized, community-maintained cyberspace. For those of you who don’t know, Dartmouth’s Taskforce on E-mail and Collaboration Tools (TEC-T) is reviewing two possibilities for the future of Dartmouth email: Google Apps and Microsoft Online Services, both services offered free of charge. The taskforce plans to make a recommendation by May 25th, and the transition could begin as early as June. Switching to one of these services will mean that our email will no longer be hosted on Dartmouth-owned servers. It also means the software powering our email system—including the clients we run on our own computers—will no longer be built and maintained by Dartmouth staff and other community members.
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It All Adds Up
05 March 2010
Seeing as they were during V-Week and near the performance of the Vagina Monologues, you can’t say they weren’t timely. Whether you feel that they were “cowardly,” as one D opinion writer seemed to believe, or that they addressed a dark underbelly of campus that everyone knows about but rarely acknowledges, you certainly can’t say that they failed to elicit a reaction.
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Tyranny of Ignorance
05 March 2010
Science is not democratic. Science is not emotional. Gravity doesn’t care if everyone votes against it. Power won’t make itself perpetual for a while if Congress passes a stimulus. Poison ivy won’t stop that itch if you ask it nicely. The virus killing that child won’t stop no matter how hard and how tearfully his [...]
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Vagina Day
05 March 2010
Vagina Day, usually shortened to V-Day, embodies a world-wide movement to empower women with knowledge of their bodies, their sexuality, and the dignity and honor that comes with possessing both. Most importantly, V-Day lets people everywhere know that women don’t deserve to be raped, manipulated or abused. In other words: the beatings stop here.??
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Crafty Consumerism
05 March 2010
It’s finally spring break, so you and your friends decide to pay a visit to warm, sunny Florida. But on the plane, you all decide to get the party started right then and there—and what better way to do that than to order some mile-high cocktails? The flight attendant comes and hands you that cute little shot in a bottle and ice in a plastic cup. But you also thirst for a Diet Coke—a chaser. Add a can of Coke and another plastic cup of ice in front of you. During this long flight your eco-friendly Dartmouth Nalgene idly awaits in your dorm room—couldn’t fit into the back pocket of your mini skirt—so you order several little plastic cups of water to stave off the formation of an arrival-ruining hangover. As the flight attendant comes around to prepare everyone for landing, you hand him all the plastic cups stacked in front of you, four in all. Your friends do the same, as do everyone on the flight, and everyone on every flight in the U.S. every day. All in all, this adds up to a whopping four million plastic cups in airport trash—every single day.
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iPregnant?
05 March 2010
Recently, Apple has been heading in a much more “lady-friendly” direction if you know what I mean [insert iPad joke here]. Now, Winkpass Creations has developed an application that allows women to track their menstrual cycle via their iPhones. That’s right—we have entered into the age of the aptly named iPeriod “period-tracker.” This detailed application affords the user a multitude of services—it generates the average length of one’s cycle and the estimated start date of one’s period. Cutesy hearts and flowers mark important dates on the calendar, such as the start and end of the ovulation cycle.
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Vajazzling
05 March 2010
Vajazzling. [vuh-jaz-ling]— the art of applying hundreds of Swarovski crystals to the area immediately around a woman’s vulva. It’s a new, invisible fashion fad conceived by Completely Bare Spa in New York City, and it’s gaining ground among top celebrities—most notably Jennifer Love Hewitt. Hewitt described her experience with the trend on Lopez Tonight, where [...]
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Symphony Orchestra
05 March 2010
The Rachmaninoff piano concerto ended in a powerful, dizzying climax, immersing the entire orchestra with tangible energy and emotional connection. As I heard the audience explode, surging into a standing ovation, I felt the unexpected and uncharacteristic traces of moisture on my own cheeks, and at that moment, I realized that sharing music is not a one-way street. Because ultimately, the music Philip offered was for the audience, for our orchestra, and for himself. After that concert, no one could doubt that the true potential of music is meant to be shared.
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