Wednesday, January 14, 2004

Alumni Constitution Fails, Trustees Expand

In addition, the constitution would have expanded the Council to include several more seats for select College-approved minority organizations, further diluting the influence of the popularly-elected alumni representatives. These additional minority seats, nominally designed to give greater representation to alumni in the name of "diversity," would have given greater power to College-approved minority groups—already currently represented on the Council—and not the alumni as a whole.

Five to Life

It was clear, however, that the issues that made Wright most giddy included the Student Life Initiative (SLI) and the Committee on Institutional Diversity and Equity (CIDE). The SLI is best known for bringing the wonderful social options like Fuel dance club, while seeking to remove others like the Greek system.

Metrophobia: My Latest Prejudice

Decked out in haute couture, the metro might think he looks slick and chic with a touch of decadence, but all I'm seeing is some weirdo skipping by in a pair of epaulettes and one of those "tangerine blouses" Flocker is so keen on. And shopping for the fun of it? That's downright gay, and I mean that in the pejorative sense.

Should We Bury the Hatchet? Good God, Of Course We Shouldn't

As Dennis's words suggest, there's something both instructive and acutely pleasurable about the wholesale destruction of a lousy book. Long before Pope and Dennis had it out, Martin Luther observed that "[i]t is an old custom to burn bad books." Book-burning is retardataire, with all its fascist connotations, but now there's a better custom: the bad review.

Ideology and Interest in a Unipolar World: Of Paradise and Power

At the most basic level, the contemporary debate over unipolarity and mulitpolarity, unilateralism and multilateralism, is over the nature and implications of American power.

Shut Up and Sing

Ingraham does bring up a number of good points, many of which are self-evident to even the most casual observer of politics. For instance, she devotes the longest chapter in the book to criticizing Hollywood elites who make it their business to attack the president, his policies, and generally anything associated with the Republican Party.

A Bright Shining Lie: Who's Right About Vietnam?

All told, Stolen Valor is an exhaustively researched book, calling upon hundreds of government documents and military personnel records retrieved through the Freedom of Information Act (Burkett is the country's most prolific FOIA user), independent studies, and personal accounts. The evidence is so overwhelming that it is impossible to discount.

Democrats Debate: Boooooring

Massachusetts Senator John F. Kerry's $150 haircut remained cool and collected. Hip to street lingo despite his patrician upbringing, the ketchup scion berated the Bush administration for "dissing" the world community on global warming.

Wesley Clark: Four-Star Fool

The audience was notably more critical of Clark than during his previous visit. In addition to asking more difficult questions, the audience saved its loudest applause of the evening not for Clark, but rather for military veterans at the meeting. It was clear that Clark's honeymoon with the voters was over.
Clark may wonder why he has not yet caught up to Democratic frontrunner Dean. Maybe he should start by firing his policy advisors, or rethinking his banal sartorial shift.

He's No Howard Dean: Thank G-d

The evening concluded with a post-meeting reception at Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, where the event organizers set out shrimp for Lieberman, who is a kosher-keeping Jew. This was soon forgotten, however, when he asked the dancing crowd, "You don't want me to do the moonwalk, do you?" Thanks, but no thanks, Joe.

Sports

If Dartmouth could take one positive out of the game, it's that they were not outclassed like they were against Boston College over Thanksgiving Break.

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