Friday, March 7
Oddly, I remember being worried about Iraq at least a year before Desert Storm. I can place this Desert Storm was when I was in third grade, and this memory is from Highland Elementary, standing on the playground looking west [I was at Highland Elem from preschool through first semester of second grade, Buchannan Elem third through fifth, and some place random for the semester in between]. Anyway, a helicopter flew overhead, likely for the hospital, and I thought of Iraq and bombs and of the idea of kneeling on the ground covering my head. It's strange that I thought of Iraq. Admittedly, this would have been right in the middle of the time when my two favorite tv shows were M*A*S*H and McGuyvor, so war and danger intruding into America seemed like they could be part of my life. Most of what I remember from Desert Storm itself is watching the TV news: advancing maps, SCUD missiles, and gas masks.
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Thursday, March 6
I went to go hear Geoffrey Stone give his thoughts on Civil Liberties in Wartime earlier tonight. Stone is a professor at Chicago Law, former dean of the Law School, and Provost of the University before that. His talk began with the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798; moved forward through Lincoln suspending the writ of habeus corpus during the Civil War, sedition in WWI, and Japanese internment camps in WWII; and ended with a question and answer, much about today's situation . What follows is from the brief notes I took at his talk, mostly paraphrases with a few (hopefully accurate) quotes thrown in.
own words on this topic in a brief 16 February 2003 piece for the Chicago Tribune.
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Wednesday, March 5
Kitty litter and oozing creosote --
Will Baude (also downtown in court that day) for pointing out that How Appealing had mentioned the case here, quoting its pretty good opening. And the full five pages of the opinion are available here [02-2724; Darrough, Roger v. CSX Transportation].
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Tuesday, March 4
It's time the University took down the orange signs bragging that in 1999, the Princeton Review ranked the Student Counseling and Resource Service here #1 in the nation.
here and here . It seems now that one death became two in the rumors. In reply to the latter post: I don't dispute that Chicago cares about its students; I do wonder if it could care more competently. I've heard people say they found the SCRC cold and unhelpful. I'll just reference the old Nightline debate to say I wish the University hadn't shut it down (the University worried that the students staffing it weren't trained well enough to handle crises). I don't mean to imply that Nightline would have prevented anything; it's just that the University's actions when it abruptly shut down the service didn't inspire very many positive thoughts about how the University treated its students.
Chicago Maroon , not yet updated online. His name was James Koehn. According to Katie Callow-Wright, Director of Undergraduate Student Housing, the University's first open and official response to a student death is the same response provided to all members of the community: the flag is lowered to half-mast; he will also receive an obituary in the next issue of the Chronicle, the University's offical paper.
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Sunday, March 2
Gah! It wasn't my coffee pot that was broken, it was the outlet in the kitchen I plugged my pot into. This I only discover after buying a new Mr. Coffee and throwing the old one out. Sigh... I think the new one is the exact same model and color (white) as Annie's (my old was black). I don't think I would have gotten through my first year without her's. ok, if Sudeep can give bad vibes that disrupt my outlets, maybe she can trigger good studying vibes through the pot.
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