U.S. can use strength for good

By Chris Meeske / January 14, 2003

Acrimonious argument swarms around America’s new role as the world’s enforcer of order, currently exemplified by the rhetoric of war with Iraq. The Bush doctrine of unilateral preemption has been accepted by default, and debate on the subject has been crushed by the conflict’s seeming inevitability. The left has decried the potential humanitarian and international...

We have axes of evil to grind

By John Lovejoy / January 14, 2003

Habitual critics of President Bush are fond of pointing out the discrepancy between his policies on Iraq and North Korea. They observe that Bush is edging the country closer to war with Iraq while taking a less aggressive track with North Korea. Since the two situations both involve rogue states developing nuclear, chemical, and biological...

Diversity oversimplified

By Danny Choi / January 14, 2003

When George III sank into madness, he was sent to the Gardens at Kew to recover. Indeed, Kew was the 18th century’s version of EPCOT Center–it was multi-cultural. There was a Chinese pagoda, a Dutch windmill, a Greek temple, etc. It was the world on parade–eye candy! Who am I? I’m an avid cross-country skier...

Don’t grieve for Steve’s

By The Maroon Staff / January 14, 2003

Recently, residents of Woodlawn voted to end liquor sales in a small area of their neighborhood with the objective of shutting down Steve’s Food and Liquor. This action reflects the changing character of the Woodlawn neighborhood, which is moving away from the high-crime reputation that it has held in past decades. Relationships between the University...

Democracy’s disadvantage

By George Anesi / January 10, 2003

The current conflict brewing between the West and the Arab World terrifies me. I said in a previous article that this war, whether fought diplomatically, militarily, or by a combination of the two, will dominate the beginning of the 21st Century just as the Cold War dominated the second half of the 20th Century. This...

Cafe Unintelligentsia opens

By Phoebe Maltz / January 10, 2003

Espresso-based beverages, while often referred to as yuppie or gourmet, are marketed in a way that is neither. I defy anyone to find a latte, cappuccino, or macchiato being sold in a place devoid of any decorations evoking an intellectual or literary world. From the swirly words on the walls of Starbucks to the English...

The all-too-short break

By James Liu / January 10, 2003

So winter break ends, and all the students return, making Hyde Park a college town again. As we return, there is new bitterness in the air: griping about classes starting again, the hope for escape, by transfer if possible, or a year off. One wonders what happened to Hugo Sonnenschein’s student life improvements that were...

Democratic party hopefuls

By John Lovejoy / January 10, 2003

Hillary Clinton, Al Gore, and now Tom Daschle have all decided to sit out the next presidential election. At first this seems puzzling, since each of these three could have easily won their party’s nomination. The fact that none of them wanted it indicates what leading Democrats think about the odds of unseating President Bush...

Bush’s southern strategy

By Joshua Steinman / January 10, 2003

How much political capital does President Bush need to act like a racist? Apparently not much. Less than a month after the resignation of Trent Lott amid accusations of his support for the segregationist policies of the old southern aristocracy, President Bush has decided to re-nominate Charles Pickering–a close friend of Lott–to the Federal Judiciary....

Bush goes to the brink on Iraq

By Tim Miller / January 10, 2003

Winter break is simultaneously my most and least favorite time of the year. It’s nice to be away from school for three weeks, but there’s also the impending dread knowing that a long, cold winter quarter awaits you right after the break. This year seems a little colder than years past for a number of...

A need for healthy dialogue

By The Maroon Staff / January 10, 2003

University of Chicago students departed for winter break under a pall with the news of a suicide–the suicide of a first-year–on the last Thursday of the quarter. Word of the incident spread over the Web, IM and e-mail, and reached the headlines of the student newspapers this week. There is not room here to understand...

A river and a community

By Craig Segall / January 10, 2003

Just about sunset one evening this past December, I stood on a hill above the Rio Grande and watched the river wind its way toward Boquillas Canyon in Big Bend National Park, Texas. The sun was golden on the high Sierra del Carmen in Mexico and the tule reeds along the river blew gently in...