We’ve heard “Beat Bush,” how about “Anybody but Kerry”?

By Feliks Pleszczynski / October 6, 2004

For all the enthusiasm and interest John Kerry brings to the presidential campaign, he simply can’t beat the raw furor and emotion brought at the mention of that one name, “Bush.” Just hearing that syllable sends the liberals into a frenzy that only Hillary’s election to the White House could top. Some may consider the...

Looking for honesty in the War on Drugs

By Richard Page / October 6, 2004

The United States needs to call for an armistice in the war on drugs and move toward legalization. Alarmists argue that drug use would skyrocket, yet numerous reports show that this is not the case. For example, a 1990 U.S. telephone survey of 1,401 adults found that under legalization, 90.4 percent would not try marijuana,...

VP debate: A golden opportunity for Edwards

By Andrew Hammond / October 6, 2004

Tonight, John Edwards and Dick Cheney will debate for the first and last time. The vice presidential debate in Cleveland will give both candidates a chance to make a case for their presidential running mates. But the debate offers Edwards an even greater opportunity. The vice presidential debate will allow John Edwards to hold up...

The tech woes continue

By Maroon Editorial Staff / October 6, 2004

NSIT has a rough job. Maintaining a network as vast and complicated as ours is not easy, and is impossible to do perfectly. And yet NSIT manages to continually thwart any sympathetic emotions we might feel with its consistent bungling of key network services. Students at the University are routinely reminded of the importance of...

Voters should consider third parties

By Richard Page / October 2, 2004

One of the most ambitious candidates for this year’s presidential election has remained largely unmentioned by the major news networks. Nonetheless, this has not stopped Libertarian candidate Michael Badnarik from earning ballot access in at least 48 states (Oklahoma and New Hampshire are being decided in court). In comparison, Ralph Nader is only on the...

Presidential runner-up to host Late Night?

By Patrick Burke / October 2, 2004

Having become increasingly aware of his showbiz mortality as of late, Jay Leno recently announced that he would be ending his term as host of NBC’s Tonight Show by the year 2009. Leno’s replacement is to be none other than Harvard-educated former Simpsons writer Conan O’Brien. Conan’s acceptance of Leno’s job, of course, opens up...

In this election about the future, what are we forgetting?

By Stephen Kim / October 2, 2004

Throughout this election cycle, political pundits, the candidates themselves, and passionate U of C students alike have all been declaring how vital the November election will be for determining the future course of this generation in American history. Whether repulsed by George W. Bush or in staunch admiration of him, the majority of voters would...

Evaluating the air after September 11

By Tara Kadioglu / October 2, 2004

Albert Camus makes a profound statement in his lyrical essay, “The Desert,” when he says, “Living, of course, is rather the opposite of expressing.” In the same piece, he says that a wise person expresses little, focusing on living—or action—instead of words and images used to invoke certain public perceptions. Americans who think unlike Camus...

To brie, or not to brie? A viewpoint from across the pond

By Rebecca Phillips / October 2, 2004

September 2, 2004—SOMEWHERE OVER THE ATLANTIC—While waiting at the gate to board American Airlines flight 44 from New York’s JFK Airport to Paris’s Charles de Gaulle Airport, I caught eyes with a woman across the row of waiting-area chairs. We smiled politely at each other. A short while later, she noticed my left knee bouncing...

Meet the new face of the Bush voter

By Barney Keller / October 2, 2004

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Reflections on a summer in rural Peru

By Daniel Gilbert / October 2, 2004

I used to laugh ironically when people called me a “tourist” last summer. At some 13,000 feet of elevation, Huancayo, Peru is far from the country’s largest tourist attraction, and Cochas Grande, a small village of some 300 people, is even less so. As the only zone in the central Sierra not conquered by the...

A core problem: science vs. humanities

By Phoebe Maltz / October 2, 2004

We have Hum, not “poetry for physicists”; why, then, do we have “physics for poets”? There’s a flaw in the Core; a tear in the otherwise flawless ozone layer that surrounds the College. I first noticed it a couple years ago, but was reminded of it today while sitting in Phy Sci, attempting to re-learn...