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Founded in 1808, the HRO is the oldest continually performing orchestra in the United States. Its alumni group, the Pierian Sodality, oversees the budget and fund raising to avoid letting the orchestra fall through the cracks of hard times. HRO Treasurer Ariel B. E. Shwayder ’03 speculates, “Most of our money comes from ticket sales or donations from people…but I can’t see anything really drastic happening to us, because we have people who take care of us and we know we’re in good hands...
...brand new Concert Commission also manages to avoid the money rub, in spite of the absence of alumni. Concert Commission Chair Sujean S. Lee ’03 says that “[The] Undergraduate Council is our biggest source of money. We are a department of the UC now, but last year, we weren’t.” Funds for this Monday’s Dispatch concert came from ticket sales and profit from the previous concert, as well as council support...
...Graham O’Donoghue ’02, who was invited to speak against the living wage at Monday night’s forum, said the other opposing voices have stayed silent because they wish to avoid activism in general...
...Pictures of civilians hurt in the bombings, together with those of the tens of thousands of wretchedly poor Afghans fleeing their homes to avoid the fighting may speak more forcefully to the citizenry of America's alliance partners than the promises of President Bush and Prime Minister Blair that this war is for the benefit of the Afghan people. And as the onset of winter leaves millions potentially facing starvation in a country that was largely dependent on food aid long before the current war began, the humanitarian crisis may soon begin to compete with the priority of overthrowing...
Over the past weeks, Americans have almost unanimously approved of President George W. Bush’s bombing of Afghanistan. This strong reaction to the terror of Sept. 11 is both natural and justified. But there has been a disturbing tendency in the past several weeks to avoid any discussion of the direction of America’s foreign policy before this generation lost its innocence. Any attempt to explore the source of anger that drives many in the Arab world to condemn our military action as “terror” is immediately decried as a perverse attempt...