Congratulations to Kirstin Dunham, runner up in the freshman prize debate!  Kirstin, Jared Malsin, Whitney Haring-Smith, Jade Lamb, and Zoe Muzenda all gave great speeches on the floor of the YPU this last week!  (How could any of them be happy with a mere two party system while the YPU, with its 6 parties, is clearly the wave of the future?)
~Betsy, incredulous

~Upcoming Lib events~
Lib Dinner
*Monday, 5:30 pm, Commons*, under Bush (because he has the biggest portrait)
Join us for dinner as we plan our vast left-wing conspiracy!

Lib Discussion:  "What happened to the global village?"
*Tuesday, 7:30 pm, JE Common Room* (on the way to the dining hall)
Explore the local, national, and international aspects of the road not taken.  Are Americans more tolerant of differences, or are communities just becoming more homogeneous?  Did globalism end on Sept. 11?  Should we export American culture (democracy?  civic virtue?  McDonalds?)?  Does America deserve its propaganda?  Will we ever pay attention to other countries we don't have a large economic or military stake in?
YPU debate:  postponed. This week's debate on gay marriage, with guest Evan Wolfson, will be rescheduled.  Our first liberal guest of the year is postponed!  Was it for nothing that we've heard the Cons hiss at "the poor"?   Was it for nothing that we've contemplated replacing justice with capitalism?  Was it for nothing that we've paid attention to people wearing bow ties who do NOT work for Chippendales?  No, because our day will come.  Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but someday (i.e. whenever Evan Wolfson is rescheduled).  And we will rejoice.
~Announcements~
This Monday is the first day of Coming Out Week at Yale, and the Co-
Op will be hosting a discussion on the mechanics and repercussions
of coming out. Far from a simple declaration, coming out is actually
a complex process with significant psychological and political
consequences. Members of the Yale community from across the sexual
spectrum will be gathering to discuss coming out in all its forms.
After a general discussion, we will split into four smaller
workshops with different themes: I'll be hosting one of them.

The Co-Op welcomes queer Yalies, straight Yalies, and anyone in
between to attend. The meeting is Monday at 9:30 in the Women's
Center, next to Durfee's. Questions? E-mail me at
jason.farago@yale.edu.

~Fun and Games and Links (oh my!)~
http://www.tenthousandvillages.org/  Fair trade crafts from Ten Thousand Villages (check them out on Chapel St., too!)
http://www.tolerance.org/index.jsp  Tolerance.org, by the Southern Poverty Law Center
http://www.mrdowling.com/616-homogeneity.html  Homogeneity in Japan
http://www.villageorpillage.org/ Global Village or Global Pillage?
http://members.aol.com/sylvanz/gvcont.htm  Esperanto:  Official Language of the Global Village?

http://www.perpetualpreschool.com/holiday_themes/jewish/yom_kippur.htm Games and Songs for Yom Kippur, "I'm Sorry Day"
http://www.torahtots.com/holidays/yomkipur/yomkplp.htm Yom Kippur "Plopples"\

http://www.chippendales.com/Chippendales2003WebSite/html/FunStuff/funandgames.html#  "Fun and Games" at the Chippendales site, if you're not into atonement. And, for a related, has anyone else gotten that hilarious error message "This body part will be downloaded on demand"?  It's right up there with "All your base are belong to us," only it sounds dirtier!