The Lib Schtick

11/8/2004

Event Rundown

Monday: 5:30, Lib Dinner, Commons

Tuesday: 6, Morse Fellows Lounge, JBB guest Ben Healey

Wednesday: 7:30, YPU Debate, Margaret Levi, R: Entrust the gov't with your money.

~~Sleep is for the weak?~~

A bit of trivia, courtesy the treasurer of the YPU: you get more REM cycles from 8 hours of sleep, every other night, than from 6 hours of sleep, every night. Healthy? It's unclear, but he is attempting to find out by experimenting upon himself.

Meanwhile, I've been drowning my post-election bitterness in sleep. I've experienced so little of the past week conscious that I'm under the impression that it's still Tuesday afternoon, the election results haven't come in yet, and the pounding in Ohio was just a bad dream caused by stress. So sleep well to all of those who sleep; in the meanwhile, I'm going to spend tonight reacquainting myself with caffeine.

--Jade

~~In the Libs~~

Monday, November 8, 5:30

Lib Dinner, Commons

Under the portrait of number 41.

Tuesday, November 9, 6 pm

Jonathan Brewster Bingham Forum

Guest Speaker: Ben Healey, BR 04

Topic: "Movement Building and the Role of Elections"

Morse Fellows Lounge

Ben Healey is the current alderman of Ward 1, the district that includes Old Campus and about half of the residential colleges. The title says it all: he'll be talking to us about how change is effected and political administrations are turned over, with particular attention to recent election results.

The Morse Fellows Lounge is right next to the dining hall. Swipe in at Morse and bring your tray to listen to Ben.

Wednesday, November 10, 7:30 pm

YPU Debate, SSS 114

Guest: Margaret Levi

Resolved: Entrust the government with your money.

Personally, I consider this to be the most exciting meeting of the semester. Margaret Levi is the president of the American Political Science Association and will be speaking to us on a very liberal topic indeed: why we should pay taxes (but why we shouldn't entrust the government with our civil liberties). If you're interested in giving an affirmative speech, e-mail sophia.brill@yale.edu.

Note that this is the second to last meeting at which you can qualify for the YPU this semester. You need to sign in three times to be a member. If you've only been once so far, haul yourself down to SSS 114 on Wednesday and at least sign the book. Also, if you haven't bought your membership, buy one from the teller beforehand. A one-year membership is $15.

~~Links~~

Margaret Levi Biography

http://faculty.washington.edu/mlevi/

Ben Healey as Alderman

http://www.yaledailynews.com/article.asp?AID=24771

Bush Sucks

http://www.eviltron.com/bushsucks/

Bush Continues to Suck

http://w.sucks.xs2.net/

American Political Science Association

http://www.apsanet.org/