Editorial: Focus on providing services
Our view: Next year's Student Assocation president should focus on small service-based initiatives rather than grandiose advocacy.
Opinions
Column: The right plan for America
In 1935, Americans drove the Model T, enjoyed Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers dancing "cheek to cheek," watched the Chicago Cubs in a rare World Series appearance and were mostly unaware of an experimental technology known as "television." For today's Generation Xers, the 1930s are a world away, as contemporary American society bears little resemblance to these distant days.
Letter to the Editor
Language war One of the hot topics in politics and society today concerns the issue of abortion. In March 2004, the District of Columbia saw an emergence of over one million advocates in support of the March for Women's Lives. One of those groups was our own University's chapter of Voices for Choices (VFC).
Column: Understanding the other
Watching Mrs. Doubtfire, or La Cage aux Folles, or the Harvard Hasty Pudding drag theatricals I attended in college, I laughed along with everybody else. Yet I always felt queasy, without quite knowing why. Years later, as I became a cultural critic, I began to ask myself why drag never represents the great qualities of women - their compassion, their stamina - in ways that would parody the weaknesses of men.
