Election loss should be motivation

By John Payne / November 11, 2004

Since the election, we’ve all probably heard friends, peers, or leaders telling us not to give up hope. They are telling us that this is just one setback, that we must keep up the fight, and that we will eventually win the struggle for equality and justice. While I agree that the struggle for true...

Talking Christian values with the far Right in red America

By Ashley P. White-Stern / November 11, 2004

Last week I wrote about my views regarding the type of fundamentalist Christian ideology drawn upon by Bush’s reelection campaign. I mentioned also that I am black and Jewish: I am the product of a bi-racial, multi-ethnic, and multi-religious household. As I said, I’m clearly wary of this white evangelical Christian (and largely pro-male, militant)...

The complex legacy of Yasser Arafat

By Adam Weissmann / November 11, 2004

Yasser Arafat’s death on Wednesday evening forces us both to reflect on the nature of his life and his role in history and to speculate about the uncertain days to come. By Palestinians he is hailed as the father of the nation; in Israel his face causes even children to shudder in loathing. Guerilla, terrorist,...

A-Level success

By Maroon Editorial Staff / November 11, 2004

Late at night, the A-Level can really start to stink. With so many students working so frantically to finish problem sets, cram for exams the next morning, and figure out how to write a research paper without actual research, the All Night Study Space (ANSS) often becomes a madhouse. Stress displaces normal library etiquette, and,...

America “le ridicule”

By Rebecca Phillips / November 11, 2004

November 8, 2004—PARIS—Before I left for Paris, an old friend of mine offered me this piece of advice: “Just remember, Europeans will usually believe you if you tell them you’re Canadian.” I laughed it off, but on November 2, when one of the girls in my “Theatrical Aesthetics of Comedy” class asked me if I...

An open letter to Divinity School faculty: The war in Iraq

By Jean Bethke Elshtain / November 8, 2004

To my colleagues: I learned from Don Browning that a statement had circulated concerning the Iraq War and the Bush Administration. As I wasn’t sent the statement—no doubt an oversight—I didn’t have the opportunity to respond. I would not have signed it for a number of reasons. What follows are a few of my considerations...

Mens sana in corpore sano

By Maroon Editorial Staff / November 8, 2004

Since the decision of University President Robert Maynard Hutchins in 1939 to place increasing emphasis on academics, the merit of athletic program at Chicago has been called into question. Those affiliated with the University commonly consider the days of athletic glory to be passed, as is illustrated by the popular mantra that Chicago’s football team...

People worldwide have expressed opposition to Bush

By Hollie Russon Gilman / November 8, 2004

Traditionally conservative publications, namely the Economist, have spoken out against Bush. Libertarians and classical conservatives everywhere have raised alarm at Bush’s policies. Where I come from, dislike for the President is palpable. However, I am not just discussing the unelectable “Northeast.” Even “rational people” all across our country have raised dissent toward this administration. However,...

The next phase in the global war on terrorism begins in Iran

By Feliks Pleszczynski / November 8, 2004

It’s been a while since America has had the opportunity to breathe a sigh of relief. This past Tuesday the U.S. dodged a bullet as Americans resoundingly reaffirmed a commitment to fighting terrorism abroad and spreading good throughout the world. For those Bush-haters who didn’t get the message, allow me to paraphrase: “You lost.” The...

A Muslim response to the 2004 election

By A Janelle Scharon / November 8, 2004

Assalam Alaykum. As we woke up Wednesday morning (at least those of us that went to bed Tuesday night) to the unrelenting clamor of pundits and pollsters, the reality that the outcome of this presidential election has disappointed the Muslim electorate—and the far larger Muslim population in this country—seemed to sink in inevitably. Amid the...

Traveling and telephones: a cultural gap

By Daniel Gilbert / November 8, 2004

This is the next installment in a series of articles about a summer spent in the Peruvian village of Cochas Grande. One night, we all sat around the table waiting for Marco to come home. He had gone to Huancayo hours earlier to rehearse with a band without letting anyone know of his intention to...

Two nations, under God, divisible

By Ashley P. White-Stern / November 5, 2004

I arrived back from Kent, Ohio in the wee hours of this morning, after two days of eleventh-hour activism to get out youth votes in an anti-Bush re-election effort. The six-hour drive gave me plenty of time to reflect on the vast number of Bush supporters—young ones—who I met on the Kent State campus. These...