It felt like the 1960s with more hygiene and less drugs. There were about 3,000 of us gathered on the west side lawn of Capitol Hill, all holding signs and wearing green construction hats. We were from all different states, from all different backgrounds, but the one thing we had in common was that [...]

In part due to the success of Al Gore’s latest film, “An Inconvenient Truth,” followed by his subsequent honor as this year’s Nobel Peace Prize recipient for his efforts in promoting awareness of man-made climate change, the imminence of global warming has found its way into the mainstream.
In Washington on May 3 of this year, [...]

If one wasn’t familiar with the term “waterboarding,” one might think it a new form of extreme sport. It isn’t, of course. It’s a form of torture in which a person is strapped to a sloped surface, all the blood rushing to his or her head, while water is poured over the face and, because [...]

There are four major candidates for the presidential election in 2008 that are senators: Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama for the Democrats and John McCain and Sam Brownback for the Republicans. Let’s be frank: All of these candidates have disregarded their elected duties as senators in order to run for president.
Sure, the presidency is important, [...]

As the race to the primaries heats up, candidates naturally begin to hone their message to target certain voting blocks—evangelicals, “security moms,” etc. When it comes to the Latino vote, however, the candidates, especially Democratic candidates, are treading lightly. On the one hand, no one can now deny the emergence of a powerful Latino voting [...]

What started as a simple grassroots Internet movement to encourage mass-donation to the Ron Paul campaign on Nov. 5 became a record-breaking event as over 35,000 people rallied to donate over $4 million in 24 hours on Monday, breaking the record for most money raised online in one day ever and breaking the record for [...]

The coverage of the presidential election in ’08 is about the Democrats and even more than that about Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Have you ever wondered what happened to all the rest of the candidates? There is so little about them it must be dug up and discovered only after much work.
The media has [...]

I found myself recently in an unfamiliar position: I was reading a column by Thomas Friedman, and I was actually agreeing with (some of) what I was seeing on the page. His article of Nov. 4, titled “No, No, No, Don’t Follow Us,” concerns itself with a looming socio-environmental concern: Tata motors is planning on [...]

Again with the liberal Hollywood! “Lions for Lambs” is the third major film released in the past two months about the conflict in the Middle East following “Rendition” and “In the Valley of Elah”’s lead. Having a usual liberal bias, “Lions for Lambs” tackles the war in Afghanistan.
The movie begins with reporter Janine Roth (Meryl [...]

Saturday and Sunday Movie Times
Grand Cinemas - 1325 W. Poplar
Fred Claus: 11:50, 2:10, 4:35, 7:00, 9:25
Lions for Lambs: 12:20, 2:20, 4:20, 6:45, 9:05
Darjeeling Limited: 12:15, 2:10, 4:15, 6:50, 9:00
Across the Universe: 12:25, 4:00, 6:40, 9:20
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Crawford: 11:50, 3:00, 6:25, 9:30
P2: 12:10, 2:25, 4:30, 6:55, 9:10
American Gangster: 12:00, [...]

Are you an Enid or a Becky?
That’s the question “Ghost World” wants you to ask. It has two very cool-in-different-ways main characters, both of which are great choices for who to be. But are you the type to draw cartoons of Satanists sitting across from you in a diner and dye your hair [...]

If you’ve ever heard the song “Across the Universe” (and if you haven’t, please find an appropriate time to do so), you’ll know that it’s one of those Beatles tunes that doesn’t quite make any coherent sense—it is a song built on abstract images that blend and dissolve into each other, and yet these images [...]

With the first rash of ski movies hitting Whitman and fall’s first dusting of snow in the Blue Mountains, the snow-hungry contingency of Whitman students begins grumbling about warm weather and dreaming of powder.
Yet new Nordic ski coach Calisa Schouweiler and the men’s and women’s Nordic teams have been training since school started amidst 100 [...]

In a show of solidarity to the Carleton College swim team who suddenly lost their Senior Captain Ted Mullin to sarcoma cancer last year, the Whitman swim team, along with the varsity alpine ski team, swam in the “Hour of Power” on Tuesday, Nov. 6.
The event hoped to raise awareness about sarcoma cancer, which affects [...]

If you want out of Iraq, look to Bill Richardson and Ron Paul. If you want a foreign policy of non-interventionism, don’t even think about voting for anyone else in 2008.
What many Americans fail to realize is that the Iraq war is the symptom, not the cause, of our broken foreign policy. The decision to [...]