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...people are represented and are placed close to one another in the Houses, people remain largely self-contained entities that escape each other’s influence. And though randomization may have produced some superficial interactions between students with divergent backgrounds and interests, the reality is that meaningful interaction cannot be forced on autonomous adults—if people aren’t interested, it isn’t going to happen. In effect, it seems that randomization actually took away from students the very thing that it was trying to create—a sense of community. The essence...
...University. Altering the words is crucial, but not neccesarily enough. “It’s important not to lose sight of the big picture,” he says, “to make trans students feel safer.”Smith acknowledges that change cannot come overnight. Even the BGLTSA is no stranger to the slowness of institutional reform. A sign in the Holworthy basement still points people to the “BGLSA” headquarters. Only during Myers’s 1997 campaign was a “T” added to denote...
...director Zainab al-Suwaij stated her position clearly: “The real question is not whether to liberate Iraq, but why we have not done so already.” In a Los Angeles Times op-ed, al-Suwaij wrote: “On behalf of Iraqis who cannot speak openly with reporters or who have given their lives trying to free Iraq from Hussein’s brutal rule, let me say clearly: American, British and other allied soldiers are a sign of hope and liberation.” The AIC director has continued to celebrate the American...
...real totalitarian systems—people forced to eat their own feces, people thrown into blast-furnaces, people eaten alive by rats—these are, of course, not acceptable to our pampered senses: they would make most of us sick to our stomachs. Accustomed to rational governance, we cannot imagine what an irrational system would look and sound like. The dictatorship in “V for Vendetta,” for all its evil, attacks entirely predictable targets in entirely predictable ways. What we do not see is random and senseless terror directed at shifting categories such...
...been a disaster from the start. We ought to get out. We should never been in there, and now that we're in there is not a reason to stay in. It's time to get out. The situation is only getting worse. We're learning again that America cannot be an occupying force in the Middle East. That was obvious before the war even started and has nothing to do with how the war was planned or implemented. We cannot be an occupying army in today's Middle East and expect decent political results from that. I wrote before...