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Volume 12 • Issue 2 October 2, 2007 Editorial rMOON The other day I went down he wovdd talk to me, ‘“cause I didn’t to the plaza to look for someone in seem aU uptight and stuff... I Staff teresting. I had a vague idea of find seemed like, pretty cool, and just a ing someone to interview for the guy who was tryin’ to go to school, Levi Armlovich Moon, a sort of ‘Man on the Street’ and get by and everything.” So after thing. So I went downtown, parked, an hour and a half or so of hanging Editor and started ambling toward the plaza. out Hstening to these guys play— and I saw some homeless-looking guys they really were good— I got my in Micheal Grotz hanging out, but I just didn’t get the terview. It wasn’t long. I asked Intern right vibe from them. I kept on Jessie what his story was, where he walking. When I got to San Fran was from and why he was here and Esme Gaisford cisco Street I heard music. Now, I where he was going. He told me, have always had a special place in my “I’m not really an interesting person, Layout and Design heart for street performers, especially man. I’m just a kid from the Mid musicians. I saw these three accor west who Hked to play music, and Gatlin Cass dion players once in Cologne who who wanted to hke, go some places Layout and Design were playing Beethoven... but that’s and play.” I was astonished. Here a different story. At any rate, I heard was a kid who had left everything he bluegrass coming from down the knew, hit the road, and with nothing street and thought, ‘Ahight, I’U check but a guitar and a backpack, was this out.’ They were really good; a hitchhiking around, “giving his music forty-ish guy with a banjo, harmon to people everywhere.” And he had ica, and tambourine, and a kid with nothing to say? He thought he was The Moon is the independent student newspaper for St. dreads and a guitar. I listened to a n’t an interesting person? I grew up John's College in Santa Fe. New Mexico. As such, all couple of songs, then started talking in a small Midwestern town. I know opinions expressed v\ ithin represent onU the view s of their respective authors, and do not necessarily represent the to them between songs. After a bit I that what he is doing right now is views of the College, the Faculty, the Administration or asked if I could do an interview for more extraordinary, in the tme sense the Moon Staff The Moon is composed of works from the St. my school newspaper. That really set of the word, than what most of the John's College Community and all contributions are wel the older guy off “We aren’t tryin’ friends I had in high school will ever come, but the editorial staff reserves the right to demand do. In retrospect, though. I’m not so an indefinite amount of revision to ensure that each issue to be, hke, Justin Timberlake or any is intelligible, relevant, informative, and fun .The editorial thing here. We aren’t tryin’ to be surprised. There have been a num staff also reserves the write to edit any and all submissions famous and get interviewed on the ber of times where different people for content, length and clarity. No animals w ere harmed during the making of evening news or anything. We’re just have said to me, ‘Oh, I’m not an in the Moon. here to play a Utde music.” “Whoa teresting person. I don’t have any The Moon asks you to not make that face. It might stay that way. man, you’ve got the wrong idea. I’m stories to teU. Not hke you, anyway.’ The Moon likes it shaken...not stirred. just a guy from St. John’s who works But I know that that’s just not tme. The Moon is not controlled by Cobalt! The Government made us say this. for the newspaper.” “Yeah but I’m A while ago I was hanging out with just sayin’ that we’re not tryin’ to be an old party buddy of mine, and I like Justin Timberlake, man, we’re was laughing about aU the partying not tryin’ to make it on Channel 7 or we had done, and all the good stories anything.” I might have left at that about my college days I’d be able to point, but the kid with dreads said, teU when I was older. He said, ‘Well “No man, he’s just a smdent tryin’ to I guess you have some good stories, do what he’s gotta do, man. I tried but I don’t really have any good school once too, I know how it is.” ones.” “What!?!” I said. “What So I listened to a couple more songs. about that time that you and I------- The older guy kept needling the kid, Or what about that other time saying things like, “You know, if you that we hung out and then you------ have to go do your interview thing —.” He was forced to admit that he with the newspaper, that’s cool... I’ll had had some adventures worth tell just play here by myself and you can ing stories about after aU. I just had go do this interview.” I guess he was to prompt him a little to get him to needling me too. But Jessie said that realize it. So I guess the point of all 2 The Moon this is that everyone is an interest ing person, o I guess the point A B L E or Contents Everyone has great stories tell, even if they don’t realrie it. The Moon has sucked the last couple of News ^ years, but not because people don’t National Affairs Desk ! ^ *■1^^ have worth-while things to say. lanRuskey......................^ You’re just afraid to talk about Petraeus Report "' them. I took charge of this paper Miranda Tomic.........................5 % with the hope that that I could make it better than what it’s been. What The Secretary Saw But I need your help to do it. It Scott Manis.................... .4.......6 really doesn’t take that long to Community Workday crank out a few hundred words. Jessica Bloom...................... It’s taken me about an hour to write this. So please, help make St. John’s Mythbuster this a fun paper. Scribble down Travis Wilson..........................^|Bi||| your thoughts. Or you could even Letter to the Luddites tell me what you have to say, and Scott Van Vechten............. .. ...9 \ I’ll write it for you. But the Moon won’t be worth reading unless you take a few minutes out of your busy day to write a little something. Try it; it’s really not that hard. rtATLRtS Whether it’s a poem, a story about Eddie’s Homestyle Cookin’ what happened to you last week Eddie Lederman............................ 10 Tools of Discussion end, your reaction to President Teething on the Tooth Steve Kolock................................17 Bush’s speech at the UN about cli Ecology of a Seminar mate change, or why World of Patrick Macala................................10 10 Questions For a Tutor S.Flynn..........................................18 Warcraft is a worthwhile use of Taser Tag your free time, if it’s something you Aldona Dye.....................................12 Scott Van Vechten...................... 19 care about, it’ll be interesting for Opinion Poll other people to read. For all of my Moon Staff..................................... 12 Unseen Moon Archives efforts, this paper is really in you, Crossword Puzzle Jack Langworthy......................... 20 Loneliness in the Desert my reader’s, hands. Please email Jonathan Palmer ......................13 Laura Sook................................... 20 anything you want to Music: KaLaRadiolina <[email protected].> Having a The Pointless Leftward Motions school newspaper that is worth the OHver Muchmore..................... 14 Henry Anderson......................... 21 twenty minutes it’ll take you to read Book: Freakonomics Squatting in the Soil it is surely worth the effort on your Chris Hamann.......................... 15 Timothy Leonard........................22 part. So please help me make the Diary of a Senior Wallflower Moon better than it has been in the Doren Valez.................................. 16 past. Submit your stories. You won’t regret it. CAtlJOPg'S COPNCK We Lend ouDeaths to Fate Rhett Forman......................... ......26 One Way to Remember Loose Marbles and Johnny Thoughts “s.a.m.”................................... ......27 Caroline K. Gorman................................ ,23 Magnetic Poetry Dreams.................................................... 24 Trystan Popish....................... ......27 One Fine Preschool Day...................... .24 Comic: Zeno’s Death Awake and Breathing............................ .25 Catlin Cass.......................Back Cover IlLIP News can't be reported in one month chunks needs to spend some time at the pool and stop living their life like the bonus round of Jet Salom. Political News especially is just the same old gags dressed up with new names and faces. If you've read Thucydides or Homer you'll know: not much has changed in the past 3,000 years. Still, it is important to maintain the habit of interest and involvement, lest someday, being habituated in carelessness, we allow some great opportunity to pass us by. One of the few things in Politics that nearly a majority of Americans care about is who will be the next President of the United States. Perhaps this anomaly of interest is explained by the American proclivity for amusement in all manner of pageants: from American Idol to Ms. Universe to the Presidency.