From: Brittney Hunt
Ad Libitum
Volume
2
In
This Riveting Edition:
*New
Year's Greetings
*Upcoming
Events
*General
Miscellany
*The
Final Thought
New
Year's Greetings:
My
dearest Happy-Go-Lucky Libs~
Happy
New Year! Welcome back to another exciting semester!
Hopefully
most everyone has recovered from jetlag and all of the excessive partying that
college students are prone to do during their downtime (unless, of course,
you're like me and opt to spend your vacation scrap-booking and knitting.
Pathetic, I know.)
Attending
all of the Lib events should have been a priority New Year's resolution for
everyone, so start off the year right by coming to everything this
week! Since shopping period is a rather hectic time for
everyone, we're keeping things to a minimum so you can spend nearly every moment running from class to class trying to figure out what
you like (or, what you have to take).
In
the meantime, go make a snow angel or two and happy shopping!
**Brittney**
Upcoming Events:
Lib
Dinner:
*Monday
January 12 at 5:30 in TD's South Common Room*
The
executive board has unanimously decided to move Lib dinner out of the
dark, dank and depressing atmosphere that is Commons (despite how much we
all enjoyed eating dinner under a giant portrait of George Bush...)
This week we'll be dining in the TD; which is a perfectly lovely place to
eat, though snowshoes, parkas and a dogsled team may be required to get there
now that it's started to snow again. We're attempting to reserve
space in the South Common Room (at least I think that's what that room off to
the side is called), but if that doesn't work out, just wander around until you
find the group.
Blue
Book Party:
*Monday
January 12 at 8:00 in Durfee D41*
Do
you know which classes at Yale are spankingly good? Do you like
to pretend you do? If you don't get enough Lib love at dinner,
meander on over to the Blue Book party in Durfee D-41. Food may possibly
be provided for you, but if it's not you can always bring your own!
YPU
Meeting:
*Wednesday
January 14 at 7:30. Location TBA*
Guest
Speaker Barbara Ehrenreich, best known for authoring the best-selling Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in
America, will come to discuss
a topic on the welfare state. Ms. Ehrenreich is a political essayist
and social critic who frequently writes about issues such as poverty,
inequality and capital punishment She's written a dozen or so books total
and contributes frequently to periodicals such as Harper's, The Nation, The
Progressive, etc. Here's a brief sampling of her column in The
Progressive:
http://www.progressive.org/ehrn0500.htm
http://www.progressive.org/0901/ehr0901.html
http://www.progressive.org/ehr0701.html
And,
for those who don't have quite enough to do during this busy time, here's
a few "welfare state" related links:
http://www.welfarestate.com/
http://www.socialconscience.com/articles/income.htm
General
Miscellany:
I
decided that my general miscellany this week should be at least somewhat
politics related (being a political organization and all)... So, for your
enjoyment:
The
Political Compass - http://www.politicalcompass.org/
Take
this lovely test and see just how liberal you really are and where some of your
favorite (and not so favorite) politicians fall on the spectrum.
The
End of the World - http://www.ebaumsworld.com/endofworld.html
The
harsh realities behind the looming threat of nuclear war.
EricToons
- http://www.erictoons.com/editorial.html
Take
some time to enjoy an editorial cartoon or two from a fellow Yalie.
The
Way of the Tube Jedi - http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~stephenbalchin/tubejedi.html
All
right, so this has no political meaning whatsoever. I think it's funny,
and I get to write the whipsheets. So there.
Now,
based upon the number of inquiries I received as to the meaning of the name of
the whipsheet, the Lib word of the week is "Ad libitum," meaning
"freely," "at one's pleasure," "without advance
preparation," etc. You probably recognize its shortened form
"ad lib," which is used with much greater frequency.
The
Final Thought:
"Whenever
you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and
reflect."
~Mark
Twain