H-Po Lost… For Now
19 February 2010
If ever there were a case for pun making, the events of last week made it pretty convincingly. It was a Frat-zaster. The affront, the outrage, the carefully meted dialogue, mediation and reconciliation (whew, Winter Carnival, unhindered and affirmed)—there was a hint of twisted wonder in it, laying-bare of our values. If only the infamous Giaccone had been a sterner villain! A small spectacle would have become frenzied mobilization, an us-versus-them crusade of the first order.
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Invasion Al Jazeera
19 February 2010
American TV news is famously factious. In this country we have preserved the individual’s right to trust any, all or none of the many domestic, “serious” TV news channels like Fox, MSNBC, and CNN, among others. This gaggle of non-government-funded news reporting affirms, to a degree, our Americanness often at the cost of accuracy and of candid, level-headed discussion of world events. Having backed away from the forefront of international news reporting, today’s America has no unbiased, singularly multi-voiced channel for world news, and we are left then to listen around for one. Seek and ye shall find…
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Afghans Dancing to a Different Beat
19 February 2010
Close your eyes and picture Afghanistan; the one that the media has been obligated to describe to us for the past eight years as we bombed the nation. It’s unbearably hot, of course, like any other Middle Eastern country. Minarets are visible on every horizon. Everyone is Muslim and Arab. What other ethnicity is there in the Islamic world anyways?
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Which Color is Missing?
19 February 2010
Diversity has been coming up a lot lately. The First Year Forum held a talk on race at Dartmouth recently. A week ago Beta had a student panel called “Branded” on the stereotypes that limit the Dartmouth experience, and my floor had a meeting about floor diversity. And of course, it’s Black History month. It seems like the discussion of diversity is everywhere and everyone has a unique opinion. But just what is diversity, and when have we achieved it?
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Kudun’s Struggle Against China
19 February 2010
Martin Scorsese’s visually stunning film Kundun (1997) depicts the life story of the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet, spanning from his discovery as the Buddha of Compassion in 1937 to his exile from Tibet in 1959 due to the violent Chinese invasion. New York Times’ film critic Stephan Holden writes, “[Kundun] unfolds like a sustained hallucination.”
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Bullying In The Cyberage
19 February 2010
The video, “A Young Girl’s Life,” by Rachel Simmons plays out like a real-life Mean Girls. However, unlike the hit 2004 movie featuring Lindsay Lohan, Simmons’ film explores the real life experiences of high school and middle school girls dealing with bullying that make having a “Burn Book” look like good, clean innocent fun.
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President Kim, You’re Missing the Point
05 February 2010
Patronizing. Dismissive. Amused. These are attitudes that we generally take towards fringe commentators who spout nonsense and take untenable positions. Usually, we feel justified in judging them harshly. Yesterday, during a closed-door meeting in Parkhurst, the administration took this attitude towards students who met with its representatives to discuss staff layoffs. The administrators chuckled. I’m sure they felt they were justified too.
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Necessary and Evil
05 February 2010
Enter Timothy Geithner, the man of the hour, just last week paraded through the House in a small populist ceremony, a rite of exfoliating outrage. Wasn’t he the perfect whipping boy? Calm, assertive, with a hint of Robert McNamara’s steely assurance—Geithner might have been every man’s wolf in sheep’s clothing as he faced a battery of accusations surrounding his involvement in AIG’s titanic bailout.
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Corporate Personhood
05 February 2010
The politicians and media pundits who claim that the U.S. Supreme Court recently “handed our democracy over to corporations” are wrong. The truth is that corporations and other monied special interests have had illegitimate yet intimate access to the inner workings of our supposedly representative, democratic government for some time. This most recent Supreme Court ruling of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission didn’t change much. Corporations have enjoyed many of the rights of “natural persons” for the past century. Our own Dartmouth College was involved in one of the landmark cases, Dartmouth College v. Woodward, that helped establish the dubious precedent for corporate legal personhood.
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Don’t Ignore The People
05 February 2010
In a popularity contest, the most popular person tends to win, and to the extent that politics is a popularity contest, the Obama administration should be worried. There is a growing popular backlash in this country, one that is neither expressly centrist nor liberal and composed of a diverse set of people. Though they differ on the best ways to fix our problems, all of them are angry at, and alienated by, a government that seems to lack ideas, ambition, and drive to reform a broken system.
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