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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Ann Mclane Kuster
05 March 2010
I thought Dennis Kucinich was going to be just about the best Democratic congressman I’d ever come across. He was straightforward, told the truth, said all the things I wanted to hear (different from the things most Americans/Democrats want to hear)…. until he started talking about aliens. I was beginning to forgive and forget, let [...]
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Power of the People
05 March 2010
As Barack Obama continues to massage the “Recovery Act” in an attempt to bridge the disparate demands of Republicans and Democrats over health care, the economy, and the government, energy has once again gained his focus—albeit with a more pro-nuclear tone than before. Lying somewhere between the low-carbon diets of the donkeys and the insatiable appetites of the elephants, nuclear power appeals to many as a panacea for our rampant energy crisis, especially when this panacea comes from the mouth of our Fearless Leader.
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Indifference to Signs
05 March 2010
In 1788, when Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay published the document now known as “The Federalist Papers,” they used the pseudonym Publius to protect themselves from persecution. Theirs was a difficult and dangerous time when dissent was treason and free speech was a pipe dream. Well, in the wee hours of the morning [...]
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World Percussion Ensemble
05 March 2010
As far as most Dartmouth students know, the only thing that African and Asian music have in common is that they are foreign and “not Western.” There is little understanding of the polyrhythm beats of African music or the multi-tonal cacophony of traditional Asian music. Given how little of this type of music we hear around New England, this state of unawareness is unsurprising. On February 19th, the World Music Percussion Ensemble sought to remedy that. That night Spaulding Auditorium was filled with the drumming of djembe and pipa—along with a variety of other drums and keyboard. The program of the night included Iya Ni Wura, Dounobah, as well as offerings such as Written on the Wind and Blue Pipa.
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An All Too Common Crime
05 March 2010
Warning: the details of the sexual violence against women in the Democratic Republic of Congo given in this article are disturbing. “Yes, it’s difficult to hear about,” said playwright and activist Eve Ensler in an interview with The Women’s Media Center, “but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t hear.” The 2009 V-DAY spotlight is not a story [...]
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