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With new members, SA votes to support working groups

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At a meeting marked by the presence of new representatives -- likely foreshadowing an upswing in Greek membership in the near future -- the Student Assembly voted 51 to zero last night in favor of supporting five student working groups engineered to address the five principles announced by the College's Board of Trustees two weeks ago. According to Teresa Knoedler '00, Assembly member and sponsor of the resolution, Assembly representatives will participate across group lines in a collaborative rather than organizational effort to facilitate and fund this venture. "The Assembly is not necessarily establishing the five groups, but rather this [resolution] is an endorsement of the groups," Knoedler said. Assembly Vice President Case Dorkey '99 said, "The important challenge for everyone involved is the communication between working groups so that the principles relate to each other, and that focusing on each one doesn't take away from the whole." The Assembly's resolution granted $2,000 to fund the working groups, covering primarily communications and publicity expenses such as posters and mailings.




Sports

Pride of the Red Sox

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I'm a Red Sox fan. Always have been, always will be. Where I come from, it's sacrilege to root for the BoSox, and I've taken nothing but flack (defined as name-calling, elbow-throwing, and good-natured drunken heckling in the Yankee Stadium bleachers) for it.


Sports

Playoff would resolve Ivy ties

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If you've been wondering what happens if the women's basketball team winds up tied for first place in the Ivies at the season's end, the answer has arrived. The Ivy League publicly announced its way of resolving ties yesterday: teams with identical Ivy records will enter a playoff at Lehigh University's Stabler Arena on Friday, March 5. The women's team, which currently stands one game behind Princeton for first place, will face Brown and Yale at home this weekend before traveling to Harvard next Tuesday night.











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Adamson speaks on economic system

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"Rebecca Lee, if you don't change directions, you're going to end up where you're heading," Rebecca Adamson said her mother told her. Adamson used this advice to illustrate the eventual progression of the current Western economic system during a speech yesterday in Collis Common ground, continuing the Martin Luther King Day celebration discussion on neighbors, community, indifference and engagement. Adamson's diverse heritage -- her mother is Cherokee and her father is Swedish -- has informed her daily life with profound understanding of diversity, enhanced by her extensive work with Native peoples across the world. She said the predominating Western economic system is based on the assumption of a scarcity of resources and individual insatiable appetites. Adamson said Western economists create a self-fulfilling prophecy with these assumptions. Adamson said indigenous cultures provide examples of economies based on different belief systems. "Every society organizes itself socially, politically, and economically according to its values," said Adamson, repeating this statement in her speech. Adamson said the quality of life of Native American tribes predicts the outcome of the entire U.S.



Arts

Gene Siskel always relied on common sense in his reviews

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Roger Ebert was always my favorite of the two. He was more dependable, more consistent and often more intellectual. And yet, without Gene Siskel, I probably would have considered Ebert snotty and annoying, too concerned with the theory and craft of films, not at all in-tune with actual movie audiences. Siskel was the human element in the duo's chemistry.