Betsy is taking the night off and I, Jason Farago, chair of the Libs and
all-around fascinating individual (what--I am!), am filling in. This
whipsheet isn't going to be nearly as interesting as the ones you've
received this semester, but surely you'll cope.

Why the relative sobriety? We're preparing for Harvard-Yale. --j.s.f.

----------EVENTS----------

1. Lib Dinner, Monday
Eat, or try to, in Commons at 5:30 under the portrait of G.H.W. Bush.

2. YPU Meeting, Wednesday
At 7:30 in LC 102, come debate the resolution "Judges should not be
judged on their politics." If you're interested in speaking on the
topic, you should get in touch with aaron.margolis@yale.edu. This is the
second-to-last meeting of the semester.

----------NOTICE----------

"My personal experience is that practically all of the 'radical'
academics silently count on the long-term stability of the American
capitalist model, with the secure tenured position as their ultimate
professional goal (a surprising number of them even play on the stock
market). If there is a thing they are genuinely horrified of, it is a
radical shattering of the (relatively) safe life environment of the
"symbolic classes" in the developed Western societies. Their excessive
Politically Correct zeal when dealing with sexism, racism, Third World
sweatshops, etc., is thus ultimately a defense against their own
innermost identification, a kind of compulsive ritual whose hidden logic
is: 'Let's talk as much as possible about the necessity of a radical
change to make it sure that nothing will really change!'"

--Slavoj Zizek, "Repeating Lenin"