Ad Libitum

Volume 9

WHIP!!!(sheet):

*Why?

*Super Tuesday

*1 Lib, 2 Libs, 3 Libs, Floor

*Hot IPster of the Week

*The Lib Bitch

*The Final Thought

Why?

Good morning Libs!

Here I am, at 5 am, enjoying the company of my fellow procrastinators who are also working on the work that needs to be done for Monday classes.  It's always reassuring to know that I'm not alone in this.  Based on the fact that I still have a problem set to finish, I think I'll cut this short and wish you all a happy beginning to the week!

//Brittney\\

1 Lib, 2 Libs, 3 Libs, Floor!

JBB Dinner

*Monday, March 1st at 5:30 in the Silliman College Fellows Lounge*

The Liberal Party and Jonathan Bingham Brewster Dinner Forum Proudly Present:

"Supermodel of the World: Black Queer Theory"

Keynote speaker: Professor Seth Clark Silberman

Seth Clark Silberman is the first junior faculty member of the Larry Kramer Initiative, with a courtesy appointment in African American Studies. His research interests reflect this joint affiliation. His dissertation explores the cadence of what he calls black queer vernacular, an intimate, antiphonal language expressing the nuanced dialogue about male homosexuality in and around black literature of the early-to-mid-twentieth century from Harlem's Renaissance to the Black Arts movement. Current projects continue his study of black queer vernacular in the novels of Jamaica-born Andrew Salkey, one of the three founders of London's Caribbean Artists movement in the late 1960s, as well as in the public figure and work of Michael Jackson.  Professor Seth Clark Silberman was recently featured in the Wall Street Journal, MSNBC's Tonight with Deborah Norville and Court T.V. Catherine Crier Live.

His work on the crossover success of RuPaul and on black queer representation during Harlem's Renaissance has been included in Territories of desire in queer culture: Refiguring contemporary boundaries (2000), The Greatest Taboo: Homosexuality in Black Communities (2001), and Public Space, Private Lives: Race, Class, Gender, and Citizenship in New York, 1890-1929 (2003). He also co-edited Generation Q: gays, lesbians, and bisexuals born around 1969's Stonewall riots tell their stories of growing up in the age of information (1996), a Lambda Awards finalist.

He has taught at the European Humanities University in Minsk, Belarus, and at Universität Tübingen, Germany.

YPU: "Resolved:  Government should provide equal rights for same sex couples."

*Wednesday, March 3rd at 7:30 in Street Hall 263*

This is it folks, the Gardner White Prize Debate.  This student debate is the one to speak at:  1st place wins $100 and a lifetime membership to the YPU, 2nd place nabs a lifetime membership and 3rd place a 4 year membership.

You MUST be docketed to speak, so email Roger (roger.low@yale.edu) to speak in the affirmative or Samantha (Samantha.tonini@yale.edu) to speak in the negative.

Just a few random links to get you started on ideas for what to say:

http://www.samesexmarriage.ca/

http://www.glaad.org/media/resource_kit_detail.php?id=3457

http://www.now.org/issues/lgbi/marr-rep.html

Super Tuesday

Don't get too excited all - Superman won't be making an appearance at a Master's Tea on Tuesday.  Instead we have the excitement stirred up by the slew of Democratic primaries, including Connecticut's, that are happening on March 2nd.  Get out and cast your vote!

New Haven Ward Co-chair races are happening too.  All of you Libs who live in TD, Silliman, Swing Space, Morse and Stiles have the chance to make an impact on New Haven politics - Alyssa Rosenberg (SM '06) and her running mate Shaneane Ragin are running together in one of the few contested races in the city.  Go out and make your voice heard!

Hot IPster of the Week:

Bojangles.  The IP I wanted to nominate this week declined the offer, so I decided that the honor should go to everyone's favorite lobster.  Not that I'm marginalizing Bojangles hotness factor - I did vote for him for YPU president, after all.

Miscellany:

For all of the squirrel-obsessed party members (you know who you are...)  I have a squirrel-centric miscellany for this week.

http://www.gottshall.com/squirrels/campsq.htm

Yale is pretty squirrel-friendly - it rates 4 squirrels out of 5.

http://web.wt.net/~psherr/squirrel_hazing.htm

The horrifying truth comes out.

http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Birdland/6682/

Psycho Squirrels!

The Final Thought:

"He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak."

~Michel de Montaigne