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Lozar Theofilactidis comes unto you with this gift and begs your approval.
Accept him as you would accept your own and together we will live in harmony.
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This is the Generic Good Morning Message for March 3, 2009.
Yesterday came the announcement that President of the College James Wright will be replaced by Chinaman Kim Jim Yong. And a little bit of me died inside.
It was a complete supplies.
On July 1, yet another hard-working American's job will be taken by an immigrant willing to work in substandard conditions at near-subsistent wage, saving half his money and sending the rest home to his village in the form of traveler's checks. Unless "Jim Yong Kim" means "I love Freedom" in Chinese, I don't want anything to do with him. Dartmouth is America, not Panda Garden Rice Village Restaurant.
Y'all get ready for an Asianification under the guise of diversity under the actual Malaysian-invasion leadership instituted under the guise of diversity. It's a slippery slope we are on. I for one want Democracy and apple pie, not Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen. I know I sure as shit won't ever be eating my Hop dubs bubs with chopsticks. I like to use my own two American hands.
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Re: Good Morning
Couple things:
I rarely read GGMMs anymore and would almost never read intern writings on account of their consistent atrociousness (That babe, Meredith excluded) but an ex-GGMM writer wanted me to try out my racist radar and told me I should check it out. This is definitely racist.
I don't care how much he / she tried to be over-the-top; what was supposed to be a joke turned out horrible. It's sad that it slipped your attention and I'd have to say I know why: Asians put up with a lot of shit. But try a similar batch of jokes about another President and watch the haymakers fly (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29423045/
For all I know, this person may be Asian, it doesn't really matter. I'll be honest with you, I've laughed at quite a few asian jokes, whether it was about South Park's Shitty Wall (http://www.southparkzone.com/episodes/611/Child-Abduction-is-Not-Funny.html or Miley Cyrus making faces (http://www.wwtdd.com/post.phtml?pk=19111 South Park and Family Guy make fun of everyone, which makes me think they actually know what they're doing. Miley Cyrus is an idiot (unintentionally funny). But sometimes it just doesn't feel right. Hence, the racist radar. I'm making the (possibly false) assumption that this intern should have known better to be so blatantly offensive without being the slightest bit funny. Maybe some self deprecation? Maybe some sort of allusion that he/she was kidding, pulling the veil away slightly to reveal a bright, educated student of the times? None of that was present.
So as a senior writer, I'd hope you'd have a little more sense when it comes to picking your interns, reading what they write and thinking how it would play to the campus (and alumni) body. Not to belabor the point, but come on, step your radar game up.
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Jack M. wrote:
A Conflict of Visions
Last week the American people witnessed two important speeches about the direction of our country. The first, as I alluded to in my O-Bingo post, was President Obama's Address to the Nation. The speech was big. It was bold. It was... all hot and nasty?
Whoa.
The second, contrary to what the media says, was not the wooden, lackluster Republican response given by Louisiana Gov. Kenneth Jindal, which was pretty much panned by pundits of all political stripes. For those who’ve followed Jindal’s career and know his impressive talents, this dud was disappointing.
No, the other important speech of the week was given on Saturday by Rush Limbaugh at CPAC. Surprisingly, it was carried live and commercial-free by CNN, Fox News and C-SPAN. Say what you will about the controversial, influential and popular radio host – if you’re still in that bubble we call college, you may have only heard your professors' reproach – he gave one heck of a stemwinder. The theme:
"I want everyone in this room and every one of you around the country to succeed. I want anyone who believes in life, liberty, pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force, any person, any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success, I want that organization, that element or that person to fail. I want you to succeed."
My advice: watch both, in their entirety. You'll see two very different visions of human nature, the role of government, and the future of America.
Update: Newly-appointed RNC Chairmen Michael Steele ain't too happy with Rush. “Rush Limbaugh is an entertainer,” Steele said. “Rush Limbaugh, his whole thing is entertainment. Yes it’s incendiary, yes it’s ugly.” Not only that, but it just came to my attention that comedian DL Hughley has his own show on CNN! He sure has come a long way since Inspector Gadget, Scary Movie 3 and Soul Plane.
Whoa.
The second, contrary to what the media says, was not the wooden, lackluster Republican response given by Louisiana Gov. Kenneth Jindal, which was pretty much panned by pundits of all political stripes. For those who’ve followed Jindal’s career and know his impressive talents, this dud was disappointing.
No, the other important speech of the week was given on Saturday by Rush Limbaugh at CPAC. Surprisingly, it was carried live and commercial-free by CNN, Fox News and C-SPAN. Say what you will about the controversial, influential and popular radio host – if you’re still in that bubble we call college, you may have only heard your professors' reproach – he gave one heck of a stemwinder. The theme:
"I want everyone in this room and every one of you around the country to succeed. I want anyone who believes in life, liberty, pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force, any person, any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success, I want that organization, that element or that person to fail. I want you to succeed."
My advice: watch both, in their entirety. You'll see two very different visions of human nature, the role of government, and the future of America.
Update: Newly-appointed RNC Chairmen Michael Steele ain't too happy with Rush. “Rush Limbaugh is an entertainer,” Steele said. “Rush Limbaugh, his whole thing is entertainment. Yes it’s incendiary, yes it’s ugly.” Not only that, but it just came to my attention that comedian DL Hughley has his own show on CNN! He sure has come a long way since Inspector Gadget, Scary Movie 3 and Soul Plane.
Change is coming
Meet your new president?
Looks like he's been the frontrunner since the fall. The announcement will happen later today.
The blogs seem to suggest he's "small-college"-minded. That's a plus. And I appreciate his many years at Dartmouth. But I will briefly note a couple quick reservations:
-Tufts is a big university. Big universities are different from Dartmouth, I hope.
-Bharucha left for Tufts in 2002 apparently, when the SLI still reigned. Now, I am not suggesting he's unaware of the various major campus issues of the last 7 years (swim team cuts, Board of Trustees battles, SLI, Zete, Beta, blitzwatergate, p!edges breakdancing on the green), but he's been at a remove from them. In an era when schools are cracking down or cutting "traditional" aspects of campus life, Dartmouth has let up in that area.
-Jim Wright is an incredibly decent guy. I believe he made Dartmouth a better place during his tenure, in no small part because of his character. Bharucha has big shoes to fill.
Boo Drunk Driving, Hurray EBA's
This happened last night except we had the delivery guy drive us from campus > home for a small fee. We all had a little Captain* in us.
*Keystone Light
AMDAL Apologizes
To those in the blogosphere that
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I'm sorry. Much like many of its readers, AMDAL is going through an early-life crisis, with all the growing pains you'd expect. We struggle with what we're doing right now, if it matters and what we should be doing instead. We even talk in the royal "We" when we're really just talking about ourselves.
As more people find their way to the site via t-shirts and Twitter (Day 9 of use: still hate it), we'll continue to work to find our niche. Maybe someday, those in categories 1-4 will learn to love us.
We're currently investigating the possibility of the Government (big 'G' now that big 'O' is in charge) to regulate the number of inside jokes, or hand us a bailout check to offset our ad-revenue (Gross: $5)
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