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(01/07/00 11:00am)
As I was exiting the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston the other day, I noticed a large crowd gathered outside in protest of the World Trade Organization (WTO) summit. Men and women chanted in unison, "Hey, ho, the WTO has got to go!" I had heard about the protests, but as I walked through the crowd I was overcome by a feeling of disbelief. To me, this serious protest looked more like a "Naughty by Nature" music video than a rally and I had the passing urge to turn to the chanting protesters and say, "Hey, that's pretty good! Now try this one: You down with WTO? Not me; oh, no! Who's down with WTO? Corporations, yo!"
(07/30/99 9:00am)
At this time of the year, people tend to think of huge blockbuster movies when they think of entertainment. That has been particularly the case this year especially when one includes Kubrick's last film, "Eyes Wide Shut," and the first Star Wars film in almost a decade. With all the excitement in the multiplexes, moviegoers tend to forget that politics can, and often has been, entertainment as well. In fact, this particular year has offered up a few efforts that, if they were regular films, would almost certainly have earned an Oscar nomination or two. Without further ado, here are our reviews for the year's best political movies so far:
(10/24/97 9:00am)
Many criticize welfare and other social spending programs as ineffective undertakings which provide all the wrong incentives for our nation's poor. Debates rage about the appropriate levels of spending, and the success rates of various programs, yet very rarely does one witness an absurd, wholesale refutation of such policies' social value. Sadly, that is what Abiola Lapite would have us believe. ["Inequality of Wealth is a Force for Good," Oct. 22, The Dartmouth.]
(10/10/97 9:00am)
So here I was, talking to Career Services about the details of phone interviewing. You see, I have one of those coming up soon so I wanted to be set on what to expect for this type of interview. I was hardly prepared for what I was told; phone interviews are in some ways more difficult than in-person interviews because the candidate can't use their presence or body language to score points. I would have to pay much more attention to the tone of my voice, the smoothness of my responses, and the details of the interview format (speaker-phone vs. normal, many interviewers vs. one).
(09/25/97 9:00am)
A few weeks ago, I visited my high school in New Mexico, and it was a visit like none before it -- in complete calmness, and not without some sadness, I revisited the hallowed ground upon which my golden, final two years of high school had been etched.
(08/14/97 9:00am)
This past weekend, while journeying to Montreal, I was struck by a strange yet logical thought: if there's this country bordering the U.S. with a drinking age of 18 or 19 (depending on the province) compared to the U.S.'s 21, shouldn't there be a sizable temporary flow of 19- and 20-year-old Americans to Canada? Just as Mexican migrant workers cross the U.S. border illegally because of the WAGE differential, might not migrant college students cross over to Canada to exploit the drinking AGE differential?
(07/17/97 9:00am)
These days in the U.S., it seems like the government has declared open war on tobacco companies. Recent national laws have forbidden tobacco billboards within 1,000 feet of schools, free gifts with tobacco purchases, and at the center of it all ... lawmakers have raised prospects of increased cigarette taxes, and a new tobacco settlement may soon be reached. The habit of smoking, for so long a minor indulgence and staple of European culture, is now being given criminal connotations normally reserved for drug dealers.
(07/03/97 9:00am)
During Green Key weekend last term, I and some fellow Asgardians had been drumming up publicity for our Green Key Dance (especially me, for I am the Publicity Exec.) when we encountered an unkind response to one of the event blitzes. "Take me off this goddamn sober-a** blitz list," quoth the disgruntled heathen (just kidding, I don't feel quite THAT strongly about ignorance...)
(06/18/97 9:00am)
I was to meet U.S. House Democratic Leader Dick Gephardt one Saturday last term in Durham, N.H., at a brief little Young Dems function ("join us for coffee and danish," the flyer said. "Great," thought I, "another fund-raising 'coffee klatsch!'"). Bright and early that morning, two other Dems and I drove down there, hoping to soak up some juicy political radiance (or at least to add another story to my repertoire of "not-quite-amazing-but-kinda-exciting" tales). Ready with my own premeditated question to ask Gephardt, I was poised to encounter the man ... himself.
(05/08/97 9:00am)
Early on Saturday morning, as I and many others walked out to the Bema amid the light and grimy rainshower, we stood ready to venture out into the "real world" for a few hours: the DarCORPS project was about to reach fruition. Dartmouth's own version of AmeriCORPS prepared for its test-run of volunteerist action.
(04/28/97 9:00am)
As I lay awake in bed a few nights ago thinking about how different I've felt this year as compared to last, my roommate muttered in his sleep, "It's true." Propelled by this harbinger of coincidence, I knew I was on to something momentous.
(03/27/97 11:00am)
Last term we found out that (surprise!) Dartmouth tuition will increase next year. A less than five percent increase sounds like a reasonable figure; a little inflation, a little price increase. But is inflation sufficient to explain the drastic price rises that have taken place in American colleges' and universities' tuitions over the last several years? A recent Time article says no, as the author examines the case at Ivy League and other wealthy schools.
(02/20/97 11:00am)
The drive towards a balanced federal budget is in the air, visible in several significant events and predictions over the past several months. Most tellingly, the president has been given a line-item veto so that he can extract superfluous pork from Congressional bills. In effect, Congress has asked president Clinton to counteract its own expensive legislative tricks, because Congress has been notoriously successful in circumventing its own laws (witness the 1985 GRH balanced-budget act, which was done away with a few years ago). The line-item veto expires two or three years after Clinton's term ends, and so is intended to provide a powerful short-term impact.
(01/31/97 11:00am)
While reading The Dartmouth on Monday, some friends and I found some interesting stereotypes in the various cartoons. My Jewish friend was offended by the fact that Herschel, a Jewish squirrel, is portrayed as being more ambitious and enterprising than his non-Jewish friend Sleazy, thus propagating the classic stereotype of the Jewish businessman. My female friend took offense because in "Bear Bones," it comes out that Bear's new girlfriend Jen is two-timing him; this effectively furthers the stereotype that women are loose, morally corrupt sex toys. Somewhat surprised (not to mention, while holding back huge peals of laughter), I warned them, "Be thou not so rash in thy accusations."
(10/10/96 9:00am)
In the past two years or so, I've heard many of my peers use several phrases which seem very characteristic of the times we live in. Despite conscious attempts on my part to avoid using these catch-phrases, I find them seeping into my own language. Two of my favorites are "It's all good" and "It's all relative." To many, these may seem unrelated, perhaps even forming a "random" collection of expressions, as it were. But to me, these two phrases all point to one theme: our culture of triviality.
(05/27/96 9:00am)
Ever been greeted by someone who knows you, but you can't remember them at all? In a new film currently showing, a man finds himself cast into a similar but much more difficult predicament.
(05/20/96 9:00am)
The release of the Dodecaphonics' new CD "Dodecadence" was heralded by their wonderfully over-the-top publicity at Friday night's Spring Sing, an a cappella concert. "Dodecadence, Dodecadence, Dodecadence!" the group chanted to the tune of Beethoven.
(05/20/96 9:00am)
Several students clothed in ghoulish, tattered rags came onto the stage. As they huddled over a figure in a red jacket, the stage was set for an evening of all-out entertainment.
(05/16/96 9:00am)
From people trapped in a bus station to trapped in a subway train to running away with the circus, this year's Eleanor Frost plays deal with some ordinary people facing extraordinary situations.
(05/02/96 9:00am)
An Irishman, bathed in a pool of white light, begins to recount a story from his childhood. The story takes place when he was quite young, yet he remembers every last detail in "Dancing at Lughnasa," this term's mainstage play, which opened on Tuesday night.