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Dec 20, 2007 04:22 PM
** COVER STORY **
40 Years in the Making:
The upcoming election has striking similarities to the ’68 race—an
unpopular war and a president with tanking approval ratings. So why
aren’t students shouting in the streets like they did then?
Chip Off the Old Block?
Three
college students email with their parents about what student activism
was like in their day and how today’s campuses compare.
Take Your Positions:
Four students sound off on what matters to them about the campaign
** OTHER FEATURES **
Dangerous Minds, Unlocked: Shakespeare,
Havel, Machiavelli—and the double-murderers studying them. A look at
the few remaining programs bringing higher ed to prisoners.
Prison literature
It’s a Barbie World: A nose-job vet shares the before, after and grisly in-between—and finds she’s not the only one going under the knife.
"My mom got a boob job"
College.com: More
classes and students are opting for the convenience of the web. Does
the ubiquity of online education mean it will start earning respect?
The crazy saga of University of Phoenix
** COLUMNS: Your opinions, your words **
Health: HPV protection doesn’t come cheap.
Sports: It’s time to recognize competitive eating for what it is: an actual sport.
Relationships: One student reflects on how wearing a traditional Arab head-wrap reveals her feminism and strengthens romantic relationships.
YourTurn: An idealistic writer goes corporate and finds that in an industry where money talks, being an articulate liberal arts grad might actually help.
** CLIPFILE: Current's quick takes on the news you care about **
...Erasable tats...Gender-neutral bathrooms...Ask Dr. Money! advice on credit cards and taking your dollar abroad...Skyrocketing birth control pill prices...Antioch College to close, then stay open, but still might close...THE SMART PAGE: your primer on Iraq, Kant, and art...Apparently guys more into relationships than girls...Remember Oregon Trail? We do too!...Spring break hot spots other than the ordinary...Swim test tales...Historically-black college grads' incomes...Facebook "causes"...Mini-golf on campus...Teen suicide rate up...Hit these sites...Yale mega-hottie...
** INTERVIEW **
Sinead O'Connor loves big, hairy men
** BACKSPIN: Arts & culture, both highbrow & low **
Fashion: The end of affordable couture knock-offs?
Declaring the death of Crocs
Film: Six Bob Dylan characters, no Bob Dylan
Talent: Computer whiz kid, '*** bug' driver, stand-up comic
Books: Mark Tatge's reading list
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Music: Chicago's 'Hush Sound' is making noise
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Dec 19, 2007 05:57 PM
by John Lingan // Dickinson College Junot Díaz’s 1996 story collection, Drown, established him as an evocative chronicler of immigrant life. His long-awaited second book, "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao", published in September, expands that subject...
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Dec 19, 2007 09:51 PM
Kausar Khan // Northeastern Illinois University Here I am, walking across campus, minding my own business, when a passing security guard does a double-take. “You don’t have to wear that honey!” she exclaims. “In America you don’t have to be ashamed of...
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Dec 19, 2007 09:48 PM
by Trisha Wolf // Washington University-St. Louis For most sixth-graders, getting a job means washing cars or babysitting for neighbors, but for WashU senior Troy Ruths it meant starting a career in computer design. This self-taught whiz learned about...
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Dec 19, 2007 09:46 PM
by Matt Harper // Dickinson College “Be ashamed to let it die!” cried Antioch College alumni in an attempt to save their alma mater following the June 2007 announcement that it would close at the end of this academic year. Their passionate efforts succeeded...
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Dec 19, 2007 09:34 PM
by St. John Barned-Smith // University of Pennsylvania George Bryant is a radical who looks like he’s passed his activist expiration date. He sits at the Harvard transit station in Cambridge, Mass., his graying hair and white stubble on full display as...
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Dec 19, 2007 09:31 PM
by Ben Eisen // Cornell University College guys may be more ready to settle down than you think. A recent study out of Duke University and the University of Albany claims that men are more likely than women to sacrifice a career, education and other goals...
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Dec 19, 2007 09:29 PM
by Julie Trescott // Pomona College For Moe A. K. Macarow, an ’07 Scripps College grad, deciding which bathroom to use is a daily struggle. Macarow’s two X chromosomes let him enroll in the women’s college, but his choice to identify as male makes him...
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Dec 19, 2007 09:27 PM
by Jennifer Pelly // Fordham University Bob Dylan enthusiasts beware: Dylan won’t be making a cameo in the upcoming biopic I’m Not Here. In fact, he’s not a character, and his name isn’t mentioned once. Directed and co-written by Todd Haynes, the apty-titled...
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Dec 19, 2007 09:26 PM
by Armin Rosen // Columbia University Students are taking out ten times as much in loans as they did a decade ago. Yet the issue of whether the government should subsidize student loan companies or loan money directly to students has been conspicuously...
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Dec 19, 2007 09:25 PM
by Katherine Evans // UNC-Chapel Hill So you want to drop Kant’s theories in casual conversation the way your pretentious ex does. We’ve done the dirty work for you. For centuries before Kant came along, philosophers operated on the basic premise that...
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Dec 19, 2007 09:20 PM
by Lindsay Funston // University of Oregon Sure, you hit up Payless for your hot leather ankle boots and H&M for that cute $25 dress that looks so much like the four-digit one you just glimpsed in Lucky. It’s not like you have a steady income! But...
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Dec 19, 2007 09:13 PM
by Zaks Lubin // London School of Economics It’s hardly a secret that the United States is unpopular internationally. According to a 2005 poll conducted by the Pew Charitable Trust in 16 countries, a majority of the people polled held a favorable opinion...
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Dec 19, 2007 09:07 PM
by Jonathan Friedman // University of Pennsylvania Trophy wives and tongue rings, estranged children and evil stepmoms: these are the makings of the families of the current crop of presidential candidates. In two centuries of American presidency, only...
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Dec 19, 2007 08:50 PM
by Isia Jasiewicz // Princeton University It seems safe to assume that ten-year-olds do not typically encounter the word “dysentery.” Except, of course, those of us lucky enough to have hit double digits in the late ’90s. Thanks to the classic computer...
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Dec 19, 2007 08:47 PM
by Kevin Scheitrum // Boston University By day, as a trader on Wall Street, Tim Janus weighs 165 pounds. But as Eater X, his face-painted alter-ego bent on devouring, he shot up to more than 180 in an especially torrid 12-minute stretch on Sept. 2, 2006,...
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Dec 19, 2007 08:45 PM
by Jonathan Peters // Swarthmore Teenage suicide rates rose in 2004 for the first time in over a decade, according to a recent report by the Centers for Disease Control. Suicide is now the third-largest cause of death among teens, but the increase of...
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Dec 19, 2007 08:38 PM
by Ashley Aiken // Linfield College I never thought my mom and Pamela Anderson could have something in common. And then, when I was ten, my mom got her boob job. It was 1994, and plastic surgery was still a fairly hush-hush topic, especially in my suburban...
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Dec 19, 2007 08:34 PM
by Daina Anhalt // Harvard University The moment of truth has arrived. Study groups, all-nighters, even multiple lattes can’t help with this one. Four years of college culminate in one last challenge—the swim test. At a few schools (Columbia, Cornell,...
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Dec 19, 2007 08:28 PM
by Malorie R. Medellin // Northwestern University The dinner conversation has once again turned to the war in Iraq and you’re sick of being on the outside. Don’t jump in until you know the basics. Here goes. In September, General David Petraeus, the commander...
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Dec 19, 2007 07:49 PM
Souleo // Brown University The naked lady lying seductively on your back; the initials of a long-gone lover branded permanently on your bicep. Sure you may be young and fit now, but those images won’t look so hot once your skin begins to wrinkle and droop...
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Dec 19, 2007 07:45 PM
In 1992, Sinead O’Connor dared to be bold. She tore up a picture of Pope John Paul II on Saturday Night Live to protest child abuse scandals within the Roman Catholic Church. In the aftermath, she was booed, banned, teased and considered by her supporters...
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Dec 19, 2007 07:41 PM
by Natasha Saiyed // University of Illinois-Chicago Imagine opening your email and finding a message from Fall-Out Boy frontman Pete Wentz. That’s what happened in the summer of 2005 to the Hush Sound, an indie quartet from Chicago. Wentz had heard their...
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Dec 19, 2007 07:38 PM
by Emily Levin // Northwestern University Two studies released this summer analyze the economic impact of attending one of the nation’s 105 Historically Black Colleges and Universities—with very different results. In one, professors at Harvard and MIT...
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Dec 19, 2007 07:35 PM
Should I get a credit card now and use it for small purchases to establish my credit rating? Or hold off until graduation? —Suzanne Capehart, College of Wooster >>If Dr. Money were a pediatrician, questions about credit cards would be the equivalent...
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Dec 19, 2007 07:33 PM
How is the weak dollar going to affect study abroad? —Katherine Evans, UNC-Chapel Hill >>Tourists are griping loudly about the dollar’s fall against the Euro, but students have a bigger reason to complain, since studying abroad means spending more...
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Dec 19, 2007 07:28 PM
by Lindsay Funston // University of Oregon Beth Calano, a senior at Mt. Holyoke, pays for her own groceries, books, entertainment—and birth control. Contraception costs weren’t usually too steep: she happily traded $10 every month for the Pill’s protection....
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Dec 19, 2007 07:25 PM
From Denver to Texas, and the Wall Street Journal to the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Mark Tatge has covered a lot of ground in his 30-year career. Now the Midwest Bureau Chief of Forbes magazine is sharing his wealth of business knowldge with students at...
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Dec 19, 2007 07:20 PM
by Natasha Saiyed // University of Illinois-Chicago Winter break is coming, which means it’s almost time to dodge the incessant questions from relatives about your future plans. Now you can tell them you’ve been hard at work planning for a more immediate...
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Dec 19, 2007 07:16 PM
Anna Murphy, a junior psych and women’s studies major at Georgetown, emails with her mom, Jane Hurst, chair of the department of philosophy and religion at Gallaudet University. Jane attended Smith College in the late ’60s, where she was heavily involved...
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Dec 19, 2007 07:12 PM
Daniel Stone, a UC-Davis ’07 alum and intern at the Washington D.C. bureau of Newsweek, emails with his mom, Arlene. Growing up in L.A., Arlene didn’t take part in demonstrations but was aware of the general climate. She vividly recalls, in 6th grade,...
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Dec 19, 2007 07:06 PM
Ben Eisen, a sophomore at Cornell and a Current staff writer, emails with his dad, David. David went to high school next to the campus of the University of Illinois in Champaign, Ill. and recalls getting out of school early a few times in the late ’60s...
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Dec 19, 2007 06:56 PM
by Oscar Raymundo // Northwestern University Erin Davies had been out of the closet for 12 years but, growing up in liberal Phoenix, N.Y. and working with GLBT youth in Baltimore, Md,. she hadn’t had many encounters with prejudice. So she was shocked...
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Dec 19, 2007 06:54 PM
by Meredith Krohn-Friedson // Cornell University After spending a lifetime lauding the virtues of a humanities education—swaggering through the high school cafeteria with an armful of Penguin Classics; protractedly pontificating on the phantasmagoric...
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Dec 19, 2007 06:51 PM
by Hillary Brody // Barnard College It may seem like all possible ridicule has been levied against the 21st-century national tragedy known as Crocs. It is one of life’s few universal truths that Crocs are unattractive, so why are a few stragglers still...
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Dec 19, 2007 06:37 PM
by Adam Eaglin // Duke University Dorell Smallwood is applying to college. He would shine in any Ivy League interview. Just listen to him talk. Like a sage philosophy professor, he forms his words slowly and thoughtfully; he quotes Plato and Thomas Dewey...
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Dec 19, 2007 06:31 PM
by Jonny Slemrod // University of Michigan President Bush has become a curse upon his own party. He has trampled on Republican values and given a generation of conservatives like me, who have come of age politically under the younger Bush, a false idea...
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Dec 19, 2007 06:27 PM
There are more new websites to check out each day than there are calories in a Chili’s Fajita Chicken quesadilla with guac (1780!), but here are a few to stop by when you’re wandering the web… …find a mutual crush: Log onto CheckMyRadar.com to add that...
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Dec 19, 2007 06:26 PM
by Ben Eisen // Cornell University Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and Nelson Mandela all wrote their treatises on social reform at the same period in their lives—while in jail. The same goes for Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf and Ezra Pound’s The Cantos. Most...
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Dec 19, 2007 06:08 PM
by Teresa Pham // UC-Davis In a twist on Facebook’s narcissistic rap, a new application encourages users to advertise their altruism. Facebook Causes strives to make social activism more accessible to a younger generation by letting members create a profile...
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Dec 19, 2007 06:04 PM
Julia Galeota // Yale University Tory Marshman’s self-described “weird and pale” look has long been in demand among fashion editors. But the Yale history major never gave the fashion industry a passing thought—at least not until last winter. Egged on...
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Dec 19, 2007 05:34 PM
by Caren Oppenheim // University of Maryland Ali Bernstein dreams of becoming the first woman late-night talk show host, but she knows it won’t be easy. At just 4 feet, 11 inches, she lacks Letterman’s stature and admittedly forgoes the aggressive style...
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Dec 19, 2007 04:59 PM
by Sharon Tharp // The College of New Jersey When Kelly Gallimore, a senior at Millersville University in Millersville, Penn., heard about Gardasil, the first approved vaccine for Human Papillomavirus (HPV), she talked to her doctor right away about getting...
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Dec 19, 2007 04:53 PM
by Adrianne Jeffries // William & Mary College The Internet is all about convenience, and convenience is a college student’s best friend. Forget trekking to the library—just use Google or Wikipedia. Putting in the effort to actually call a friend?...
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Dec 19, 2007 03:31 PM
by Daniela Bloch // Northwestern University I always knew I would get a nose job. Having spent my childhood years trying to tune out my family’s familiar phrases—“we’ll wait until it’s done growing” or “you could be the next Diane Sawyer”—it was finally...
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