Alternative Music Spaces
14 May 2010
The basement scene has everything you might expect on a normal Friday night: rowdy behavior, loud music, kegs. However, this isn’t the basement of a house on Webster Ave, it’s the basement of Collis.
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The Other Side of Aid
30 April 2010
Last issue, I reported on Dr. Dambisa Moyo’s talk on her book Dead Aid in which she argues that the billions of government-to-government aid to Africa is not only an inefficient mess, but is also hurting African countries. She reasons that aid harms development directly by causing foreign dependence and inflation, and indirectly through [...]
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Smackdown Politics
30 April 2010
The crowd chants the name of the valiant hero as he prepares to make his entrance and address the rabid crowd of 80,000 who stand jam-packed in the stadium in anticipation of his arrival. A fighting song is played and the wrestling superstar makes his way to the stadium where he is greeted by thousands of screaming fans. In his speech, he vows to prove his opponent wrong at their big showdown. As he finishes, the crowd again cheers “OBAMA, OBAMA! OBAMA!”
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DIY Sexperts
30 April 2010
Hello readers, this is SEX, and hopefully will appear regularly in future DFP issues. If not, then forgive me; I’m probably just not getting any ass at the moment and am feeling bitter about it. For the first appearance of SEX, the column, I’d like to talk about the Sexperts. Many of us have experienced something that has to do with the Sexperts, whether it was a special freshmen floor meeting about sex, the Sex Fair, or the “Consensual sex is hot” summer event.
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For God and the Gays
30 April 2010
Episcopalian Bishop Gene Robinson, the first non-celibate gay bishop, spoke this past Wednesday in Rollins Chapel to kick off Pride Week. His talk, Sexuality and Religion, was organized by the Pride Planning Committee and the Tucker Foundation and was well-attended by members of the LBGTQA and faith communities alike. Bishop Robinson is described as humble by his diocese in New Hampshire. An effective speaker, he spoke with me last November, at DGALA, the annual gathering of Dartmouth LBGTQ Alumni. Like the last time, He did not fail to impress.
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Got Pride?
30 April 2010
Whether you’re Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Allied (LGBTQA) or anything else (XYZ), this week has certainly been a spectacle of sexuality: men dressed as women, women dressed as men, androgyny, genderbending. Once again Dartmouth has had an educational, fun-filled, and successful PRIDE Week. Our celebration here in Hanover was not a part of a national PRIDE holiday—Ally Week, Day of Silence, International Drag Day, and National Coming Out Day—so considering our independent effort, the full schedule of Dartmouth PRIDE Week was something of which we can all be proud. Despite the inopportune weather, our rainbow-spangled banners were still there looking better than ever. Can’t rain on this parade!
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Stigmatized Refrigerators
30 April 2010
New England is cold. But even so, saying ice was one of the region’s largest industries in the early twentieth century sounds more like a joke than reality. Truth is often stranger than fiction, however, and in truth, ice production in New England was not only a huge industry—it was a cross-country and sometimes international [...]
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A “No B.S. Attitude”
30 April 2010
Last week I visited my hometown of Burlington, VT to conduct an interview with Senator Bernie Sanders (I -VT). Seeing as he is the longest standing independent congressman in American history, and that I also consider myself independent on most political issues, I was excited to ask him about what I consider the most important progressive issues in politics right now.
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A Hopeless Hop?
30 April 2010
A recent sold-out concert for Jason Derulo—a second rate R&B singer—provided insight into the artistic interests of many Dartmouth students. On the same night, the theatre group Universes performed Ameriville at the Hop. Ameriville is a show based on the social injustices in post-Katrina New Orleans. However, the show’s attendance, quite predictably, did not rival [...]
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The Thought Police
16 April 2010
You’re in a foreign country. Water, food, and supplies are rationed. The Government deliberately starves people yet everyone is unquestionably loyal to the political party in power—the only party in power. This may seem like an Orwellian dystopia, but for those living in North Korea, it’s reality. On April 6th, 2010, Liberty in North Korea (LiNK) and its Dartmouth chapter, the North Korea Project (NKP), hosted a screening of the documentary Inside North Korea. Inside North Korea differs from other documentaries in that it tries to vividly show the lives of North Koreans, albeit only the privileged ones, as opposed to Kim Jong Il’s craziness or the lives of the refugees. Considering the dearth of information about the most secretive nation in the world and its people, a peek into the lives of North Koreans was a rare chance to understand the political situation in North Korea.
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