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Editorial Board: Effective response
The College deserves our utmost praise for handling the World Trade Center and Pentagon tragedies with sensitivity and serving to the needs of the students and faculty, for cancelling classes for Tuesday, scheduling prayer vigils and services for the varied religions on our campus. This was in addition to counselling, 24-hour services in Wilson Commons […]
Editorial Board: Donate blood
To donate blood is to give someone the gift of life. The Red Cross has used this motto for years to increase and promote blood donations nationwide. Never has this statement been more true than now. Blood banks are routinely below needed levels with their resources heavily stressed by everyday medical demands. Please go donate […]
Compromising freedom
The events of September 11 are a truly horrible tragedy. The violation of our national sense of security is unparalleled in American history. This has led to commentators in the media to call for some restrictions on our liberties or to ask government officials what restrictions would be necessary. This is not the way to […]
Editorial Board: Acts of War
We have no words to describe or adequately condemn Tuesday?s attacks on the United States or the depravity of those who are responsible for them. September 11, 2001 is not just a day that will live in infamy, but it is, as the New York Times wrote, ?one of the moments in history in which […]
Taking the moral high ground
I missed the day Americans will remember for the rest of their lives. Studying abroad this semester, I?ll never know what it was like to watch as the World Trade Center was leveled or experience the hush that fell over the nation for the next 24 hours. What I will remember is getting day-late news […]
Losing money in the shuffle
"You?ve won a $2,000 scholarship!? said the voice on the phone. ?Excuse me,? I replied. ?You?ve won the Virginia A. Bowmaker scholarship in the amount of $2,000. I will be mailing the check today and you should receive it by the end of this week. It?s made out to you and your school. You?ll have […]
Who Cares?
Who Cares?By Byron Au-Yeung
2001 summer movie round-up
by Mike BavliCampus Times StaffClearly, some movies are more memorable than others. Consequently, we as an audience are sometimes treated to extended periods during which the ?Gods of Hollywood? smile upon us and indulge us with films that we will remember for a longer time than it takes to walk back to the car. The […]
Bjrk bores with ?Vespertine?
by Nasser Al-QatamiCampus Times StaffWhen Bjrk hit the music scene with ?Debut? back in 1993, no one expected that the Icelandic sugarcube would change the face of popular music by revamping every aspect of pop music-making. She even got Madonna almost begging for collaboration on her ?Bedtime Stories? album. With hits such as the painfully […]
Adams' photography highlights nature's finest
By Kara DeSantisCampus Times StaffThe George Eastman House currently houses an exhibit entitled ?In Praise of Nature: Ansel Adams and Photographers of the American West,? a black-and-white retrospective of the work of Ansel Adams and other nature photographers. Adams is the best known of a group of American photographers who practiced Transcendentalism. Transcendentalists believe that […]
