Monday, October 15, 2001

Two New Residential Clusters Planned

The large class of 2005, as well as the SLI's effort to keep students out of the Greek houses, contributed to the current housing crunch. Many sophomores called for ORL to allow them to live in Greek houses in the fall, but Director of Housing Lynn Rosenblum said that the option was not and will not be considered.

New Greek Leadership Council

The presidents of all Greek organizations voted last Monday, October 1, to replace the Coed Fraternity Sorority Council (CFSC) with the new Greek Leaders Council (GLC). The new council will be made up of the presidents of all College recognized Greek organizations, a non-voting moderator, and the presidents of the Greek sub-councils, who will not be able to vote in meetings.

MultiCulturalism: Fact or Threat?

The ideology of multiculturalism demands the transformation of America's educational and political institutions in response to the new demographic reality. This ideology of multiculturalism, unlike the fact of multiculturalism, poses a threat to what is best and highest in America.

Tom Spence '83: Vox Clamantis

These issues range from the judicial usurpation of the political process to the rise of horror in novels and film. Indeed, Spence's favorite Spence book is Carson Hollway's All Shook Up: Music, Passion, and Politics, a look at societal conceptions of popular music from Plato to the present day.

Deep Sea Fishing With Freaks

While not a hurricane, the next morning dawned with gusting winds blowing in from the sea, creating 4 to 5 foot swells. At 5:30 AM, my brain could not quite comprehend the endeavor we were undertaking, and I was reassured by Nate and Hesh's constant assertions that, "It'll stop blowing in the afternoon, and then she'll lay down," referring, of course, to the tumultuous seas.

The Kangaroo Court on Kissinger: Review of 'The Trial of Henry Kissinger'

Even the title of Christopher Hitchens's new book, The Trial of Henry Kissinger, is misleading. The book is not at all a trial but a series of slanderous charges followed by a slew of weak insinuations posing as supporting evidence, all suggesting that American scholar and distinguished statesman Kissinger is a war criminal. The biggest problem is that Hitchens, a supporter of the former communist bloc, is hardly an impartial judge.

Salvaging Classical Studies: J. Lawrence Scholer Reviews 'Bonfire of the Humanities: Rescuing the Classics in an Impoverished Age'

How can a discipline attract students when they will be subjected to jumbled nonsense, profanity, and celebrated incoherence in the place of traditional criticism? How is this kind of study more useful than its predecessors? Bonfire's point: it can't and it isn't.

Indie Rock Goes Stadium, But Smart: Stefan Beck Reviews Built to Spill

I have a little confession to make. Although, I'm a self-described lover and connoisseur of indie-rock, I hadn't, until very recently, heard much Built To Spill. I'd listened to snippets of a few of their songs, in friends' cars, but I hadn't really enjoyed or appreciated what I'd heard.

Alumni: Fight Student Brainwashing

One of the causes for this strong drift to the Left is the distinctly liberal faculties of our well known colleges. A Harvard junior says of the 2,000 faculty members at Harvard, all but 6 identify themselves as liberal. A survey conducted by some students at Amherst College found one registered Republican among a faculty of 165. A Princeton Alumni letter states that Professor Robert George is, to its knowledge, the only tenured conservative on the Princeton Faculty of nearly 800 people.