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...diversity senators” to serve in the student government. Conservative students objected to the notion of granting so-called diversity seats to groups that “feel their community’s voice has been silenced.” The parsing of diversity is all too often skin deep, and the conservatives at Amherst understood that these seats were devised with certain groups in mind, namely groups defined by race and sexual preference. Accordingly, the conservatives adopted a radical approach in order to illustrate the hypocrisy of the left and explicate the connection between diversity seats...
...nther, a German epidemiologist found Iraqi children playing with bullets and shells left over from the war. In tests, he found radiation levels 350 times higher than those produced by Uranium-238. Subsequently, one of those children died of leukemia and others suffered kidney failure and lacerations on their skin. Günther was arrested by the German government and jailed for two months for bringing such dangerous material into Germany...
...tell in advance who is most at risk. Pregnant women and small children, for example, are particularly vulnerable. So is anyone whose immune system is compromised--by HIV, cancer, immune disorders or immunosuppressive drugs. People who have ever had eczema, or who live with someone who does, risk widespread skin infections and should avoid the vaccine, unless they know they've been exposed to smallpox. All told, 60 million Americans would probably be well advised to take a pass...
...photo is excruciating. In Feng Feng's Shin Brace, an exhibit at the First Guangzhou Triennial, a photograph of a human leg?scaled up to fill an entire wall?is shown wrapped in a wicked metal apparatus that seems part medical, part torture device. Steel barbs pierce traumatized skin in a scarring kiss. I look at the photo until I can't look anymore, which isn't long. Opposite Shin Brace is Feng Mengbo's Ah Q , an installation featuring two computers running the ultraviolent video game Quake III on a pair of wide screens. A young Chinese...
...only one who found P-E-N-I-S. For the sake of numerical balance, the Arts team was joined by FM Associate and Crimson President-elect Amit R. Paley ’04. Paley became incredibly involved in the game, leaning over the board until his leopard-skin boxer shorts were visible. In a later CNN interview, Paley admitted that they were a gift from his mother, and noted that you can’t spell associate without...