HEADLINES, LIFE & STYLE — March 10, 2010 at 9:03 am

by Sue Khim Just returned from watching the band Califone play a live soundtrack to their Sundance-selected film All My Friends are Funeral Singers at Lincoln Hall. The film lives in the world of the supernatural, with superstitions lingering on the screen (e.g. It’s bad luck to say ‘pig’ on a fishing boat) followed by clips relevant to the particular lores. Most of the clips take place in...

Califone at Lincoln Hall

March 10th, 2010 | HEADLINES, LIFE & STYLE | Read More

Climate Rhetoric Heats Up: The Rest Versus the West

In late January, Usama Bin Laden made an extended statement expounding on the reality of climate change and its effects on the world: “The effects of global warming have touched every continent. Drought and deserts are spreading, while from the other floods and hurricanes unseen before the previous...

March 5th, 2010 | HEADLINES | Read More

Eye on Conakry, Guinea: Poverty

Guinea is a country heavily burdened by poverty. The population sells anything possible. Drugged dogs can be purchased on roadways, from the comfort of your car, if you’re lucky enough to have one. Almost all food is imported. My friend tells me that, “you can’t look at prices when go to grocery.”...

March 2nd, 2010 | HEADLINES, INTERNATIONAL | Read More

Grenada’s Imaginary Subversives

The specter of Communism swept across the world until the late 1980s, haunting the collective minds of Westerners. Western governments safeguarded their citizens against this threat by stringently guarding their buffer countries. The tiny island nation of Grenada purportedly fell to Communism from 1979-1983,...

February 22nd, 2010 | HEADLINES, INTERNATIONAL | Read More

Diskord Panopticon Road Trip

Do you enjoy visiting prisons? Join the Diskord staff at the Stateville Correctional Center to visit one of the few facilities in the world modeled after Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon. It’s a long road trip, yes, but on the way we will read from trip-related classic Kafka’s The Castle...

February 10th, 2010 | HEADLINES | Read More

Is NSIT Reading Your E-mails?

by Sue Khim Call me a cynic, but market forces say that when the going rate for student information is high, people with access to it are probably selling it. And think about it: You’re tech savvy. You have admin access privileges to the e-mail of everyone you see at the gym. It’s been a...

February 9th, 2010 | HEADLINES | Read More

For your pleasure … Lady Robot

by Dahlia Rizk The year’s technology: hands-on and hassle free. This past week the streets of America have been abuzz with technological news regarding items that until recently, we never knew we needed, but now, will never be able to live without. One such item has been the Apple iPad—the iPhone...

February 3rd, 2010 | HEADLINES, LIFE & STYLE | Read More

The Other Nuclear Option (You Know, the One That Involves Fission)

Although in recent months the term “nuclear option” has mainly applied to legislative tactics, during Wednesday’s State of the Union address Obama discussed the original nuclear options. One—nuclear proliferation—he emphatically rejected. The other—nuclear power—he strongly endorsed, eliciting...

January 31st, 2010 | HEADLINES | Read More

White Suburbanites Vote Republican, Stun Nation

(Revised on 26 January) Even though I was born in Boston, I spent my early years in the town of North Andover, in northeastern Massachusett’s Essex County. Full of greenery, winding roads, old cottages and a Congregationalist church, it is also home to not a few ostentatious houses and parking spaces....

January 21st, 2010 | HEADLINES | Read More

Three Days in Barcelona

Barcelona’s heritage is etched in the lines of antiquity but definitively defined by modernity. It is one the notable cities where the ubiquitous glassy facades of modernist architecture works, even when juxtaposed against the stone of centuries old buildings. It is home to architectural heavyweights,...

January 21st, 2010 | HEADLINES, INTERNATIONAL | Read More