ACE Interview: Mark Rudd
The Alliance of Collegiate Editors interviews Mark Rudd, former member of the Weather Underground and current anti-war activist.
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Paladino: Wrong, but not Remarkable
So, Carl Paladino said some pretty inflammatory things about homosexuality the other day. Dave Weigel has the exactly correct take on the politics of Paladino’s remarks. I have nothing to add: it’s the wrong message at the wrong time, when he should be focusing on the economy. Weigel is also right that the particularly unusual case of Paladino – the [...]
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Lit Theory, Dishsoap, and the Electric Car
So I was sitting at home, smoking shisha, listening to some Baaba Maal, reading Barthes’ Mythologies, when I came to an amazing realization. I found a similarity between Dawn, the happy bubbling dishsoap, and GM’s new Leaf. In Mythologies, Barthes (pronounced 20th century French literary theorist) spends a whole essay discussing the cultural and semiotical importance of dishsoap. The base [...]
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On High School Debate and Oversensitivity
The National Forensics League high school debate league recently bowed to popular pressure and abandoned a proposed debate topic regarding the highly controversial Park51 project. A former high school debater weighs in on the decision’s effect and how it reflects the oversensitivity within our society.
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TEDxPenn and the Ultimate Reality
I love TED.com. Along with Academic Earth, I spent far too little of my precious hours over the summer watching lectures on everything from Qur’an-based comic books to game theory to sex and human nature (without having to take ANTH104). So it came as a wonderful surprise to hear TED is coming to Penn! On Octobter 1st, TEDxPenn – an [...]
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On the Death of Page 217
It has come to my attention that the page 217 application essay is no more. The DP has a eulogy up, which mostly remarks on the creativity the essay afforded students. Apparently the administration’s rationale goes like this: First, Penn’s use of the Common Application — which has an open-ended essay as an option — made the prompt “repetitive and [...]
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Republican “Spices” up CT Congressional Race
And you thought Republicans couldn’t be funny… Here is Jerry Labriola, running for Congress for CT in District 3, in all of his (advertising) glory. What makes this ad effective is its clarity. Meaning from a political message exists at the intersection between audience, context and the message itself. Labriola takes into account the audience, respectfully disrespects the context, and provides a [...]
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Academic journal studies hipsters. How ironic (because, like, being a consumer so mainstream)
Hipsters. Those mythical creatures, a native North American breed, overly cultured and underappreciated in pop culture – see: Stuff Hipsters Hate, latfh, Hipster Dinosaurs, and Hipster Puppies). Yet they did not escape the academics, baffled and intrigued by such unique countercultural narrative. In an effort to better understand hipsterism, authors Mr. Arsel and Mr. Thompson recently published an a paper [...]
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Conservatism Versus the Mosque?
President Obama’s steadfast support for the “Ground Zero” mosque, which only a day later turned lukewarm, nationalized an issue that many New Yorkers, including myself, have become familiar with for months on end. What’s fascinating now is how all the big time players from opposite ends of the spectrum- headlined by Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin on the right, and NYC [...]
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Same-Sex Marriage is Marriage: The Argument from the Merits
I’d like to talk about the arguments for and against same-sex marriage – the so-called “merits” of the case. The legal arguments surrounding Judge Vaughn Walker’s decision to strike down proposition 8 are complex and interesting. The political gambles made by Boies and Olson on the plaintiff’s side, and by Walker on the judge’s, are exciting. Nonetheless, the legal aspect [...]
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