Thursday, April 18, 2002Thursday Happenings: "Rally for the Human Rights of Exploded Israelis" noon, Collis--See below."Sexual Assault Community Hour" noon, Commonground--As the WRC is actively promoting a "Rally for the Human Rights of Palestinians in the Occupied Territories," one wonders that this event isn't some sort of shill to attract supporters. "Poetry and Prose Reading" 4 P.M., Wren Room--Jeffrey Lent reads. "Civil Liberties in Developing Countries: The Impact of the War on Terrorism" 4:30 P.M., 2 Rockefeller--Owais Aslam Ali, Chairman of Pakistan Press International and Harvard affiliate, speaks. "Finding Our Way Out of the Mid-East Imbroglio" 6 P.M., 108 Reed--RECOMMENDED--Doug Bandow of the Cato Institute speaks on the U.S.'s role in the Middle East. Bandow is coauthor of the excellent Perpetuating Poverty: The World Bank, the IMF, and the Developing World. Dinner served. "Invading Iraq and the Axis of Evil" 6 P.M.--Dinner with Professor Allan Stam of the government department. RSVP for location info to "World Affairs Council." "Constructing the Virgin Martyr" 7 P.M., Mid-Fayer Basement--Subtitled "Sex, Gender, and Religion in the Early Latin Lives of Saints Agnes, Cecilia, Agatha, and Lucy." Senior Dana Polanichka presents her thesis. "No Man's Land" (film) 7 P.M., Loew--"In this black comedy about the Bosnian conflict, a Bosnian and a Serb are stranded between enemy lines" ($5 Dartmouth students, $6 gen.admission). "Charity, Justice and Social Action: Confronting Hunger in America" 7:30 P.M., Commonground--Janet Poppendieck, author of Sweet Charity? Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement, argues that voluntarism and private charity crowd government welfare dollars out of the market--the horror! "Club of Dartmouth Entrepreneurs" 8 P.M., 218 Collis--Executive summaries and Mobius Audio's business plan. Free pizza. "GreenPrint Info Session" 10 P.M., Mid-Fayer Basement--Let ECO coax you to use the new environmentally-friendly but otherwise inconvenient printing system. Ben & Jerry's ice cream to be served, not that any inducement to attend is necessary, of course. Posted by Andrew Grossman at 9:36 AM Comments Post a Comment (we enforce our comments policy) |
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