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dollar that he donates from his U.S. income is tax-deductible. Second is his philosophical self-inter April is the est. He gambles upon the success of emerg ing pluralistic societies with his disburse cruelestmonth. ments, hoping that these nations will always welcome independent-minded characters -T.S. Eliot such as himself and his three children.
To Get Rich Fast
Soros succeeds by anticipating changes slightly ahead of everyone else. The financial Contents markets are much like an Alice in Wonderland chess game where the rules keep changing, and where one player appreciates the sig nificance of the changes more quickly than i another. If a new rule states that a pawn can move backwards, an adept player will add Trustee Report; this consideration to his strategy to bring victory closer. Governments are constantly announcingnewrules,andanannouncement Classifieds an:cf' that restrictions on a kind of trading will be imposed, for example, is much like the pow Personals ers of a pawn being altered. Better still for Soros is the fact that a billionaire, if he chooses, j) can cultivate influence among government officials in order to learn a~ut rule changes in advance of their announcement. Volunteer Soros became wealthy mostly by mak ing trades in the currency markets. What follows is an explanation of this sort of specu Oppprtunitie~!>··· lation. When an American tourist landed in ~ Earth's most legendary investor Germany last year and changed her dollars into marks, she had much money to spend. What's What;= When she returned this month and exchanged the same number of dollars for marks, she George Soros had less to spend. The dollar is worth less v\ . Bard Snring now against the mark than it has in fifty -~·•·•· Shaping markets, shaping history years. This decline primarily results from a laarger international demand to have money by Sean O'Neill World-Wide{ versity and the charitable organization in German currency. Why? To prevent prices :::-•-: known as the "Soros Foundations." These from rising too quickly, German banks pay George Soros, the first billionaire ever to twin institutions help to educate people businessmen high rates of return on their visit Bard College, devotes his days to the out Web;.. about the traditions of civil society, as it investments in what appear to be safe and betting of other speculators in the currency was defined by the philosopher Karl Pop profitable German bank accounts and bonds. markets and to the rescue of his birthplace per. His groups especially encourage the Also, because Ge~any has had increasing Tank Girl from its own worst instincts. toleration of tolerant thought. success in business transactions in Europe, it Mr. Soros, Earth's most legendary inves He pledges money for building makes sense to close deals in marks, the (Q) tor and benefactor, will address Bard students houses for the poor of South Africa, for the common denominator in currency, just as it in the Olin auditorium this Saturday, April 8. care of Gypsies under attack in Bulgaria, makes sense for international conferences to His speech on the "perils of the post Opinion Table; for scientists desperate in Russia, for actors use English as a main language. communist era" will finish a day-long con locating Romeo and Juliet in besieged The dollar is also worth less and less ference here about fostering stable, demo Sarajevo, and for doctors changing "the against the Japanese yen. Mainly, this is be Word of the cratic societies in east and central Europe. culture of death" in the United States. cause Americans buy more Japanese V.C.R.'s The New Republichas described his talks Soros evaded the Nazi death camps and consumer goods than the Japanese buy as having "the chilly clarity of a fingernail Week when German troops occupied Hungary American movie studios and similar "ser clinking against crystal." in 1941 by pretending he was not Jewish vices." Since more importers need the limited Soros has distributed or committed one and by hiding in a collaborationistgentile's supply of yen, the value of yen rises. 71 billion dollars to the nations of Bulgaria, the house. These long-term trends are hidden by Czech Republic, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Soros sometimes uses his personal fluctuationsresultingfrombanksbuyingand and - his favorite - Hungary. Retina ·Soybean; history to dispel-suspicions about his dis selling currencies. To make a profit, a man Soros,aged64andauthorofthreebooks, persal of cash to intellectuals and reform with a billion dollars might exchange his refers to himself as "a stateless statesman", a Letter ers across the globe. His intentions are greenbacks for deutsch marks with the ex "deus ex machina", and "a self-made man." plain, not meglomaniacal, he insists. pectation that, tomorrow, the mark will be He created the Central European Uni- First is his financial self-interest. Each continuedon page3 Trustees meet Classifieds and personals ENTREPRENEURS: Start fun and we love you all. Re your part-time business. Re ally. Student reps report on triannual meeting sidual income monthly. No in Ba rd' s a "college town" by taking ad- Levy spoke on the role that the ventory, No retail sales, NO Fay Board of vantage of the popularity and the Levy F.conomics Institute played RISK! Sound intriguing? Call Laurie Trusteesgath- grassrootsdevelopmentofnearby in defeating the balanced budget 679-4150. Student looking for a Curr~· ered for their Tivoli. amendment. Letters, personalap quiet place-to live and do re search over the summer. If Gunt Spring meet- Bard is already establishing peals and institute reports from SUMMER SUBLETS The ing March 22 shuttleswhichruntoandfromthe the Levy were very instrumental Graduate School of Environ you are looking for a respon Writer in New York Bardexpatriatevillage. OtherBard in dissuading policy-makers in mental Studies is looking for sible housesitter or want to City. Presi- actionscouldindudethepurchase Washington from passing this student housing for this sum sublet your apartment, please dent Leon of real estate for housing and the constitutional amendment. mer, mid June· through mid call Julie at 752-7523. Botstein's opening report touched expansion of the path leading to The institute was unified in August. If you wish to sublet on a few positive developments Tivoli. its protest of the policy, explained or rent, please call 758-7483 or, To the wild woman from inthe Bard community. In terms of on-<:ampus de- Levy, "but individuals were see Molly or Liz in Sottery 101. this afternoon: kiss mel kiss Herevealed thatthecollegeis velopment, Bard will use grants against it for different reasons." me! kiss me!-love Billy Ray having a banner year for admis- from IBM and Mellon for the use Finally, thecruxofthemeet The Bard Observer seeks C. sions. The fact that Bard has had to of technology in teaching arts, to ing was discussion of the increase staff. All interested writers, reject more applicants than ever expand the capabilities of the intuitionforthe1995-96year.Vice photographers, copy editors, "Tim Hart," give us your beforeisduemostlytothepublicity computer center. The college will President Dimitri Papadirnitriou artists, cartoonists, etc. are real name- we might print that the school receives for its af- use monies given by the Oaire presented several options to the welcome. Meetings are held in your letter. filiation with the Bard Center for BoothLucefoundationtodevelop board and demonstrated from a room 84, Tewksbury basement, Studies in Decorative Arts in New a program for female science marketforecastreport,thatBard's Thursdays at 7:00 P,m., or call "Am I too slow to turn York Oty and Simon's Rock, from scholars at Bard. increase was on par with or even 758-0772. .. my thouhgts to words?" You "word of mouth," and as a result of At the end of his report, the less than the proposed increases of can still kicky my in Scrabble ... diversity mechanisms like the Ex- president enumerated the speaker comparable schools like Reed, The Bard Music Festival cellenceandEqualCost(EEC)pro- andhonorarydegreerecipientsfor Haverford and Bryn Mawr. To needs people. If you are going "Whet have I done? What gram, among others. this year's graduation. Henry student representative Dara to be around this sum.mer, or have I done? What have I With these positive develop- LouisGates,Jr.,African-American Silverman's question whether would like to be around this done?" men ts, commented Botstein, come scholar, author and educator from Bard had any contingency plans if summer and would like to get new challenges for the school, like Harvard, willbethemajorspeaker cuts are made in federal and state first hand knowledge of how a Repeat: "I will write for evolving new criteria for selectiv- at commencement. financial aid, the president re music festival works, or even the Bard Observer." Repeat .. ity. Arnold J.Davis, Bard alum- sponded, "We are fighting this if you are just curious, please Another problem of growth nus, class of 1944, will receive a battle. Ifwe lose it, we wilrfuve to call Robin Leebard·t at 758-7410 Si! Si! Soy "hip!" Soy (which the students fated to the Doctorate of Humane Letters. regroup." (x. 7410). "hip!" waitinglistalreadyknow)is,where Mary-Oaire King, the biologist (See President Botstein's to house more students. The space who discovered the gene that March 21 op-e:i piece on finan Lost keys, little yellow Fey problem can only be alleviated by causes breast cancer, will receive a cial aid cuts from the New York keychain. If you find them, more housing, the president ex- Doctorate of Science. The Painter Times.) please call 876-8355. Remember that Bard plained, with an eye towards the Oaes Oldenburg will be given a ThepositionofStudentRep Observer classifieds are free college's future. Doctorate of Arts and the econo- resentative to the Bard Board of I found a skateboard by to the public. Also regarding growth, Bot- mist J~ Tobin will be honored Trusteesentailstravel to New York Manor. Box 1254 to identify. stein explained to the trustees that with Bard's Doctorate of Humane Oty for three meetings a year, at Bard could make up for the lack of Letters. which the representatives are All blame for this year's The Bard Medal will be given given time to express student con April Fool issue should be ad to Susan Weber Soros, Director of cerns to the Trustees and adminis dressed to its contributors: the Bard Graduate Center for tration. Both representative posi Andrew "Propagandist and g~eat Studies in Decorative Arts. tions will be up for election this Glandist" Fowler, Kathy "Baby Botsteinintimated that there spring. Interested students should Driver" Hoover, Bill "Red scores... may be some surprises for the se- contact either Dara Silvennan or Fuckin' Meat'' Hornbostel, niors. Laurie Curry). Robin" Astro Boy" Kodaira and President Botstein and Jay Michael "Houdini Blues" ~~ Poirier. 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Tomor profits of about forty percent a currency would lose its value fur the college's endowment, Soros quently found themselves spend row arrives, the mark is announced year, often without taxes to pay. ther. decided to circumvent traditional ing money in rather unusual ways to be worth one percent more, and Thisisamorelucrativeway On a bad day in 1993, the philantropy by creating his own and on people with rather dubious the marks are exchanged backinto to earn money than depositing Fund lost$600million when it put foundations. According to TheNew characters. dollars. That man then has a million funds in an account at First its money in dollars against the Yorker,Soros despises bureaucra The potential, though, for lu dollars to add to the original billion. Rhinebeck of the Hudson Val Japanese yen. cies. He looked to governments crative business connections, and With fast computers, and ley. It is also a more risky way. To Quite an active life, one that were changing the rules of the the intellectual challenge of the en with values changing every hour, minimize the risk, managers of might say, for a senior citizen who political game,in Hungary, China, deavor and its rewards to the ego, much money is made and lost in hedge funds study markets care livesonanestateinSoutharnpton. South Africa, and elsewhere, and led Soros to this kind of spending. currency futures. And, in our hy fully. They decide that, if the he invested his foundations there In short, the man who will pothetical deal of someone buy Fund invests in X in the hopes Hidden Costs? to help. speak in Olin this Saturday dem ing a billion dollars worth of marks, that it will dramatically increase The proper role of Soros' onstrates more than the virtues of the deal itself causes the value of in value, but event X instead When one party makes groups in the world is disputed. generosity and dispassionate cal marks to increase, encouraging crashes spectacularly, thenevent money, another party often loses For example, a program to build culation. He symbolizes how bi others to buy marks. Y must, as a consequence, in money, and most economists note new schools in nations such as zarre the free market is that we The man with a billion dol crease in value because of event that it is taxpayers and small busi Albania requires bribes and gifts live in, where a man makes a for lars, so to speak, is George Soros. X's failure. nesses who pay the costs incurred. to those people who are in posi tune without producing anything. But it has not been his own billion There is no easy analogy to The rentral banks of the U.S., Ger tions to speed the construction Soros merely intuits the direction that he has usually traded. With convey this concept. Generally, many and Britain,eitherraiseinter contracts, permits, and timetables. of a shifting breeze of numbers. his record of successes in guessing it is that if the Fund invested est rates, or else spend six to ten rate changes and seeing the long millions in the stocks of a com billion dollars a year buying their term trends behind the fluctua puter software company, Fou own currencies. They take these tions, Soros convinced people to rier-Cutler, then it would also actions to defeat traders such as Volunteer give him their cash that he invested invest a few hundred thousand Soros, and, more significantly, to for his and their profit. in the stocks ofa competitor, such defeat the large corporations who People have placed money as Microsoft. If the first company see the relatively tiny Soros riding a in his hands since 1969 when he collapses, in this case, the edu new wave on the orean and take opened the Quantum Fund. This cated guess is that this will ben their huge surfboards to catch some Opportunities is similar to a mutual fund (with a efit Microsoft and that the value of the action, too. Once people be social service. If you would like premium), where an investor buys ofBill Gates will increase sharply. lieve a currency will collapse, ev In order to provide an op portuni ty for students at Bard to additional information or to speak shares(about$30,00a share)in the So the Fund, while losing mil eryone sells the currency, and it involve themselves in social ser withsomeoneabouttheprograms, Fund. The cash is used buy many lions in this example, would still collapses. vice programs, they must first be please contact Rich Kelley in the currencies, as well as stocks. Over have a small amount won in its Soros commands several bil made aware of what is available. Dean of Students Office, ext. 454. several years, shareholders take Microsoft investment. The Fund lions of dollars, and plans to spend During the next few weeks, there Survivors of the Shoah '"'hedged" its bets. the money to escape, perhaps, in will be articles highlighting sev The survivors of the Shoah On a good day for heritanretaxes. Around the time he eral organizations that provide Visual History Foundation is a Soros in 1992, his Fund married Susan Weber, an art his various services to the sur- nonprofit organization dedicated ~ade $1.5 billion by torian who is curre~tly running rounding to developing the most complete communi archive of Holocaust survivor tes ties. These timonies ever assembled. Thegoal programs is to conduct videotaped inter MORE&UROPE FOR LESS are also views with as many survivors as available possible throughout the world. through To preserve the integrity of Four SeasonsTravel makes Europe affordable ... the Social the interviews, they will remain in atTurdableair faresand lodging• Action their complete unedited form. The Workshop: testimonies will be made avail Summercharter flights • Flydrive packages • a collection able worldwide to museums and Eurail passes•Tours and cruises• GO'? of faculty, nonprofit organizations devoted students to educational, historical, reli Studenttours • ~ '{O and staff gious, and ~haritable pursuits. Free passportphotos * O\J \J~ working to lni tia I repositories include the U.S. combine Holocaust Memorial Museum in academic Washington D.C., Simon ~ouiJ)i studyt and Wiesentahl Center in Los Ange the experi les, Museum of Jewish Heritage in "1llf,~f, e n c e s New York, Fortunoff Video gained Archive for Holocaust Testimo through nies at Yale University and Yad THE Vashem in Israel. PRINCETON There was a tremendous re sponse for the interviewing posi REVIEW tions in New York. There are, • COWSIONREPAIR • GlASSREPLACEMENTS HOwever, volunteer positions • INSURANCEESTIMATES • FRAME STRAIGHTENING available in the offire that is being 24 HR TOWING set up in New York. 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Trans 00/2REVIEW SHOP 914-876-1242 portation cannot be provided due to the location, but please con ThePrinceton Rev1'iw is not affiliatedwith HOME 914- 758-3948 ETS or Prine.tan Untvantiy. sider taking part if you will be in NY~ tl!i~_SJ.IJ!l!l1~L, __ • .. • •.• ... •. ~i~~~-~~ What's What Sexuality in right-wing America By Sean O'Neill everywhere speak with a lisp." stir on our relatively open-minded campus, homosexuality. one cannot say these things erough when the 30l violations of the 'Ton't Pursue" Tomorrow night, Thursday, in Tivoli, The woman arguing that all homo Republican pi.rty leads the nation. policy have oo:urred srn::eit went into effect Bard students are encouraged to attend a sexuals have a lisp was trying to divide the Mr. Gingrich, if your America is about lastyear.Fifteen "witch hunts" ,and ten casesin candlelight demonstration against bias-mo world into the many Us and the few Them, freedom, we remind you that our most essen which personnel received death threats be tivated assaults on homosexuals. According the heterosexuals versus the homosexuals. tial freedom is the right to be fully human How causeof their actual or perceivedorientations, to Klanwatch, 25% of the "228 assaults tar People like her want to make sense of can you faceyoursisterCandace, who isopenly are documented as well. geting a victim's r,3ce, ethnic background, thesesupposed sexual distinctions and want a lesbian, while you support the bigoted 'Ton't 'Ire dischargerate for horrosexuals has religion or sexual orientation" were anti-gay to develop identifiable markers so that they Ask; Don't Tell" policy in the military? remained uoc.hangedunder this policy that last year. Twelve people, it reports, were can tell who falls into which category. Mr. Helms, we must fashion our lives disallows all discharges oosedon comder murdered in 1994by assailants who admitted They must resort to foolish imaginings alone, accorrodating occasionally, but never ations other than improper behavior. to anti-gay motives. to do so because, unlike all other dual cat capitulating to, the half-baked social ideals of 594 men and woiren were dismissed These extreme examples of violence egoriz.ations of nature that they make (tall/ peoplelike yourself. How can you judge the from the military last year. In each case, no against sexual minorities underline a gen short, child/adult, man/woman) there are qualityofN.EA.-fundedartworkbythesexual disorderly conduct was evident Dismissals eral homophobia in America. no distinguishing characteristics demarcat practices of the artists? were oosedon acx:usationsabout orientation ing people's supposed orientations into Mr. Anney, we can each guide our in and on reportsof off-duty activities occurring I stumbled across a conversation a groups. Indeed, bisexuals confound this stincts and impulses with a guiding will and outside of military bases and naval vessels. couple of summers ago between two neigh crazy system and demonstrate its illogic. conscieoc-e,but we cannot deny our sexuality, These violations of wnstitutional rights bors of mine in New Jersey. One homosexual has little in common whatever it is. Your derogatory reference to to privacy, as well as the repeatedviolations of The two women were a generation with another homosexual in attitudes and Representative BarneyFrank is reprehensible. a policy rreant to prevent intimidation, are apart, one a thirty-eight year old and the actions toward perceiving the world, except .. causes for outrage. other an eighteen-year old. One held forth when he or she is forced to share a defensive Ideally, Arnerira isa placewhere people Judge Eugere Nickerson bravely and that homosexuality was a sin, while the action in reaction to a homophobic society. can significantly improve upon their dream.5, a>rTeCtlyruled last week that this policy for other insisted that it was a purely genetic Conversely, two males who get aroused by despite any hardicap of poverty or physical gays in the military violates the free speech and trait and thus authorized by God. looking at a woman may be the two most disability. equal protection provisions of the Rrst and Interestingly, it was the younger one differentpeopleanyonecouldimaginewhen Except,that is, for the handicap of stub Rfth Arrendtnnts. He demanded reinstate who was condemning homosexuals to Hell. their values, actions and personalities are born, supersititious ignorance, which makes ment for six oornosexual soldiers and sailors The older one countered the youth's Bible compared. all dream5 impossible. who, he concluded, ''had done no more than quotes with the prophet Ted Koppel of ABC There are no social or cosmic Again,the policy regrudinghomosexu acknowledge who they are ... " News. significances in pursuing exclusively one als in the military must be changed. Ample Tl-ere is a need for courage in this, the ''Homosexuality is genetic. It's the gender in your sexual interests, any more evideoc'ederronstratingtheneedforthechange most recent civil rights movement. Courage is truth. I saw it on Nightline. Everywhere you than for someone pursuing both when the is in a report by the Washington-based, requiredlo take actionsrow lo remove any go in the world, in all the different cultures, libido sways them. Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, future stigma forsarre-sexacts. Publicden-on with all the different accents and languages, which provides legal representation -, those strationsrnay beone way to challenge popular they find the same amazing thing. Gay people While none of these words will rause a strippedof theirrank because of acrusationsof attitudes. Bard Spring Is Sandeep the Great Adversary? By Sean O'Neill such as himself. scriptfor ProfessorPruitt's film class. able, gmrK:hewing, seventeen to twenty Sandeep continuously thinks about his Sandeep sits, inscrutable amidst the year olds - an act that is essentially propa Sandeep splices the film "My Coming girlfriend. After turning on the projector, he celluloid, presenting a nice tableau. ganda for Satan and the glamoriz.ation of 2: The Cheerleader Demons" from five reels, sits back for a moment's rest, thinking of He paraphrases a poem. evil. subsequently winding it in a large spiral how her mouth is like the inside of a jelly "Fihns fall apart, the rollers do not He is heading after Bard toward Man onto a horiz.ontal steel disk. doughnut. Not that she overapplies her lip spin. And what attenuated beast, its hour hattan, too, a choice settingfor the hideous He is not doing this so he can see the stick or anything. Quite the contrary. This come round half past, slouches toward new Incarnation. teen flick for his own pleasure. He despises was just a mental association, something Manhattan to be born?" Yes, coffee, nicotine, and a steady diet ~ gruesome, implausible film, about the about her crimson sumptuousness that gave Sandeep has a slouch, the typical Bard oftheconcessionstand'shotdogs,hadcom murder of an Iowa girl with lengthy blonde him spasms of desire. student's posture. It was first discovered in bined to give Sandeep mo~ than existential hair set in a complex system of barrettes. I'm projecting thesethoughts onto his one of those ghastly line-ups in the high sorrow, or even indigestion. These attritions A silly plot, he thinks. She ought to mind for novelty's sake, obviously. No one school gym when the physician has all the aggravate his self-doubts. have known better than to step out of her knowswhathethoughtashelooked through fourth grade boys remove their shirts to Is he the Anti-Christ? He tries to justify pick-up at Midnight on a dirt road isolated a view-port at the moving images. check their backs for contorted spines. himself. He hadn't intended to corrupt his between cornfields when the cicadas omi Sandeephasopened thesluicegatesof The physician had rubbed his fingers girlfriend. She consented. He had merely nously stopped chirping. blood onto the silver screen, and the youths along the knobby bones protruding through asked whether she would like to sleep over No,it'snotforhim.lt'sforthem .. lt'sfor gasp in delight at the opening montage of San deep' s skin, sending shivers throughout athisplace. Youknow.Asleepover.Likethe a late-night crowd of young women and gross disembowelments caused by a rotat him. The prompt diagnosis: a classic slouch. kind kids have in sixth grade. And she just men,out on dates, anxious for an excuse to ing helicopter propeller blade. Sandeep had handed the doctor's note stayed around for several months. A very kiss in darkness. Sandeep pulls the begin Maybe his mind was on how earlier to his mother, who responded, 'That's okay, long sleep over. That's all. Nothing big. ning of the film from the middle of the disk that day he had learned that "Sandeep" is an since you're the Anti-Ouist, slouching to And he didn't make the films he and threadsit through some guide rollers in English transliteration of the Sanskrit word ward Manhattan." showed, either. He's not responsible if the preparation for a screening. meaning "writes with small scrawl." Sandeep worries that he really might guys in the audience experiment with their He's built, fed and broken down quite Maybe he was planning to send con be the Anti-Ouist, all things considered. His babes after seeing the movie, right? Not at a few fihns thesepast months for this job at doms to all the administrators who had girlfriend's father is an upstanding cleric, all. LyceumGnema that has brought him some banned the spring menage party. and he, unreligious, lives with her in sin. He Should he abandon the cause of re extra cash. Republicans had eliminated Maybe his mind was craving a cigarette, leads a group to reverse a ban on a (safe) sex turning the menage to Bard? Sandeep dozes work-study programs and student loans, here in the flickering projection light of his past party at his college. He also shows a film off as the film slips out of focus. and 1997 was a lean year for a Bard student dreamsaboutwritinganincoinf8uIDletrovie about mutilation to a crowd of impression- (To be continued.) ;··,·.~.··~~-S:·····•···············:•·1!:!!;\•_\ ]' ....·~•-~·-·~·--··•·····~ c.••• -.~i; __::,;,.& Working on the World-Wide Web- or, what Michael Lewis never told you about the Internet Access to universities and Take a look at the Men's The fol http:/ /www.whitehouse. http:/ /www.clark.net/ other resources on China. Issues page. lowing is a gov pub/jeffd/index.html .Josh list of ad http://www.music.indiana. http:/ /da.awa.com/ Ledwell dresses to A virtual tour of the White The conservative page, in edu/misc/music_resources.html artnet/ artnetweb various in House, plus profiles of the First cluding the Contract with Editor t ere sting ·America, a Newt Gingrich fan Family. A gallery with pointers to World-Wide club, and updates on A table of contents for online music infonnation. visual arts sites. Web pages. http:/ /lcweb.loc.gov Whitewater. This list is http:// maas-neotek.arc. gleaned in part from the Febru http://www.info.net/ cc http:/ /www.iuma.com The Library of Congress nasa.gov:80 /Marsokhod / ary 27 and March 13 issues of page, offering access to legisla Newsweek magazine. Some en Ralph Reed's Christian Sends you into the Internet tion and a POW /MIA database. Real time images from a tries are fun, some are informa Coalition page. Underground Music Archive. Russian robot roving in Hawaii's tive, and ·:some are downright http:/ /www.ic.gov Kilauea volcano. The machine is scary. Surf the Net at your own http:/ /www.igc.apc.org/ http:/ /www.addict.com/ being tested for a trip to Mars. risk, however, because I have not The CIA World Factbook. igc/pn.html ATN/ visited any of these sites myself Anyone with an interesting to be sure they work. The Peacenet, with bulle "Addicted to Noise." http://www.os.dhhs.gov Web address should send itto the To access them, type in the tins and updates from human http:/ /www.vix.com/pub/ Observer and share it with the address line on the home Galaxy . The Department of Health rights organizations. men/ index.html rest of the wired masses! V' page that comes up first on the and Human Services, FDAand Bard Web software. World Health Organization page. http://www.cnc.ac.cn Tank Girl: The Movie Review "Delightfully awful!"
is a bit much considereing that It's a hopes of having a top seller (a along the lines of the A-Team; man half- kangaroos. They of his character-a half-man, shame this la The Crow soundtrack). I'm lots of guns but little maim- . ten resemble Winston's other Helder half-kangaroo-is a very m o v i e not much of a music person, ing and blood. The script is creation, the Predator, when minute character, on the verge \lira didn't come so the soundtrack just didn't layered with an excessive they are in armor; or just look of cameo. The rest of the Rip Guest out in time do anything for me, it only amount of one-liners for Lori like men in masks when out of pers are unidentifiable under for the Os caused an annoying buzz in Petty (mmmmminmm. armor. Only one Ripper came Writer all that makeup, although cars. Maybe my ear at times. An interest .sorry, I'll do her later) to spew across as a kangaroo (and three have major roles. Jeff it would ing point was when Tank Girl forth in almost every scene. turned out to be the most in Kober (known as the devil in have blown broke into a musical number Occasionally, they work. teresting). every movie he is cast in) is away Forrest Gump's sweep. with a chorus line which con More often, they're forced. Allthataside,thecastingwas great as Booga, Tank Girl's (But then again, if a well made sisted of prostitutes and Although director great. Lori Petty (mmmmmmmm) lovable dopey kangaroo boy documentary about actually transvestites (this number got Rachel Talalay attempts to truly embodied the spunkiness of friend (implied sex). And look working to fulfill a person's old quickly). convey Martin and Hewlett's Martin and Hewlett's character, for Iggy Pop's cameo appear dreams doesn't even get Created by British artists spirit of Tank Girl, the film even with a watered down script. ance. nominated and instead the Alan Martin and Jamie becomes too watered down as I was hoping she would be a bit With this precious little phallic little golden boy goes Hewlett, the Tank Girl comic it tries to follow a plot. Its more rowdy (and not have so article, I have broken my first to Mr. Gump's dumb luck. .. ) strip followed the rowdy ad flashy look and sometimes many annoying one-liners), but commandment, "Thou shalt To be honest, Tank Girl is ventures of a girl and her tank manic editing would make it she gave a great performance not review movies." I despise not by any means a brilliant in the outback (a twisted fe feel at home if aired on MTV. nonetheless (personal feelings of critics because they take all the movie. It is however a de male version of the Road War The snappiest aspect love and obsession for her aside) fun out of watching movies by lightfully awful little film that rior). The strip didn't have about the visuals is the ani and was definitely the star of the analyzing the films to death plays like a two hour music any sort of plot or scheme, mated sequences and cutout movie. and being nit-picky. So I video, much in the same way aside from lots of swearing, Jamie Hewlett art (I'm a Not even Malcolm should've just given you the that last year's comic-movie drinking, and tons of blood sucker for Hewlett's art and McDowell's sinister powerfiend skinny from the beginning and The Crow and Oliver Stone's gushing violence. the animation was just bitch was able to steal the show as most let anyone who really wants to Natural Born Killers did. Un To my dismay, Tank Girl ing, if straight out of Liquid villains do. Although McDowell know read the rest of the ar like those two soundtrack in the movie lacked most of this TV). These pieces are inter was good, he was underwritten ticle. fested rapid cuttin barrages of while attempting to sustain the spersed throughout the film, and missing from the second half Anyway, my real feeling visuals, Tank Girl doesn't pre mandatory revenge-driven, oftentimes doubling for sets of the film. He played the role of abou the movie is that it's a tend to take itself as seriously. out-for-justice comic book plot or scenes (better than matte the evil, power-hungry villain fun and entertaining flick. It's If anything, the filmmakers (can someone please tell me paintings); it might have been having fun very well, and if you delightfully awful, but enjoy were doing this to have fun. which idiot on the Ratings neat to see more of the art look carefully, you will be able to able if you shut down your The very premise of Tank Girl's board gave this movie an "R"?). though, and to have had ani see just a wee bit of Alex Dalarger brain for two hours. Don't punk style leaves it open to The producers toned this film mated kangaroos instead of in his eyes. expect anything brilliant or being engulfed in a barrage of down just a bit too much so the Stan Winston created Naomi Watts as Jet Girl hardcore. Suggestion: watch alternative pop music, which that Ice-Tis the only person to makeup. was a fine straightman, an it at the dollar theater or mati the producers have gladly seen utter "fuck" in the.118 minute While Winston is gifted, Abbott to Petty's Tank Girl nee. Any comments? Let me to, leaving Courtney Love in running time of the film. he really screwed up on the Costello, although underused know here at the Observer. V' charge of the soundtrack, in The violence is almost design of the Rippers, half- at times. Ice-T's second billing comnu o our mee ngs 1- sor programs on a vane o weekly to give feedback or prob topics in and outside of the resi lem-solve. It should alsobe men dence halls to facilitate discussion OO talj tioned that I rarely receive com and to share their expertise. This plaints about the food and ask has been very successful. The PC's approximately twice each college has also bumped up semester for input, which is usu transportation off camups to New ~ ally positive. York City, area libraries, andis &'t !\'\.,_._,t: \Q. Ct,"' f\ o.,ck currently establishing a Red Opinion: "I think there Hook-Tivoli shuttle with the in ~1S w~t:'S L~ I~ w· should be a Servicemaster Ap put of the students from the Stu dent Life Committee. ~i:\..~1 1\.l~ KINO 40LO FllM preciation day." The Campus Center f\..16' ~ws n ,u, KI6e~~• Q: ''Why are student loan Committe, composed of faculty, ON (f(A.7..Y LE"ON1S S(l,t~t. checks made to the college? Most students and administrators is in L£"oN WANT.s Tt> \Ctl.L \(fuY schools make checks out to the the final phase of plans for a I students." Campus Center to improve the f,ll~V.IN" i\.4( f\'.:>t~Sc"'J..,. f'OOf lives and activities of students. Kftf\\T~ LE"'CN IS NO M~ A: Andrea Parent-Tibbetts, Student surveys were distributed 'l(ooi,(~ k:I?L.Vf ~AC~ ~~ Assistant Director for Financial and many general meetings were Mi.ST"f>.K~oF ~G'f",;){~I~~ Aid, provided the following in held by the committee to gather formation, which is available to student input. I would be happy 'T\.,H: OF '(A~.A n, wo~~ any student. ''Your loan checks toreviewtheStudentCenterplans AS l.,,(\~( .... iJ ili~S TI(l(JNG are issued to you and the college with interested students. (They 6':F <..€1>~1S' t<,n-1s ~osr (copayable). They may be issued have been previously reviewed ~~Nou.St.y. at different times, on a schedule at Forum Meetings.) determined by the college. When Jeff Huang sponsored a I, k\~C.S~ \'ki•,loof"\"!So'f\~i•~ "Jil.:.t the college receives your loan successful 'Carnival' party with a "-toll H{llt oj -._ TRANSPORTATION Jitney Schedule: the Jitney runs Monday through Friday and makes stops at the following places and times: Robbins: 8:30a, 8:50a, 9:IOa, 9:30a, 9:50a, 10:lOa, 12:00p, 12:20p, 12:40p, l:OOp, l:20p, l:40p, 4:00p, 4:20p, 4:40p, 5:00p, 5:20p, 5:40p. Tewksbwy: 8:42a, 9:02a, 9:22a, 9:42a, 10:02a. 10:22a, 12:12p, 12:32p, 12:52p, l:12p. l:32p, l:52p, 4:l2p, 4:32p, 4:52p, 5:12p, 5:.32p, 5:52p. Tuesday: van to the Lyceum in Red Hook, 6:30p - !Op. Wednesday: Shop 'n Save Run. 6p - 9p. f'riday: Vans to Rhinecliff Station at 4:20p (4:53 train), 6:00p (6:31 train) and 7:20p (7:51 train). Vans tb Poughkeepsie station at 5:.30p (6:19 train), 7:45p (8:35 train) and lOp (10:45 train). Poughkeepsie Galleria Mall trip. leaves at 5p. Saturday: van to AA Red Hook, van leaves at 6: 15p from Security. Shuttle to Tivoli, Red Hook, RhinecUff and Rhinebeck, l Oa - 2p. Sunday: meet at 9: 15a to go to various churches in Red Hook, Rhinecliff and Rhinebeck (St Jqhns, St. Chris and St. Paul). Pick ups at Rhinecliff Station for trains ariving at 6: I 5p and 8:02p and l 0: l 2p. Pick ups at Poughkeepsie Station for trains at 6:45p, 8:45p and l 0:45p. Meet all vans behind Kline . - Wednesda~I Thursday Sunday • Friday Saturday Monday Tuesday Aprll5 April 6 April 7 April8 April 9 April 10 April 11 Green Coalition Table Fran~aise. Russian Discus- Bard Opinion Democracy Gargoyles, an Meeting. Come Kline President's sion or R.vsskl Table. Talk with Triumphant? exhibition by artist Room, S:30p - Stol. All are the Resident lsues and Per Paul Myoda, at the to discuss campus 6:30p. welcome to come Directors and spectives on the Center for Curato recycling, from Sp 'till???. members of the Post,.Cold-War rial Studies, starts composting and German Table. Kline Commons Student Life Era. International today. There will other environmen Join us for some Committee Committee. Kline conference hosted be a reception tal issues. Aspin conversation. All Rooms. Commons, 12p - by the Levy Insti with the artist at wall, 7 :30p. are welcome to Ip. tute, featuring 3:30p. Sister Cities What are U.S. attend! Kline participants Project Meeting. Bard Christian Banks doing in Commons Com- George Soros, Kline Committee Fellowship Meet- Mutual Funds? A mittee Rooms, 6p Ernest Gellner, Rooms, Sp. Ing. Bard Chapel, lecture by James - 7p. James Chace, Ian 7p. All are wel- F. Cleary, Profes S/M ACES meets Thurman Barker come. Bremmer, Miklos sor of Economics and Marilyn every Thursday at ttaraszti, Jewish Students' at Boston College. Crispell will offer 6pm in Kline Katharina Pistor Organization Levy Institute, Bp. a jazz concert Committee Room.· and Stanislov meeting. Kabalat tonight at 7p in W ellisz. Starts at · Benvenuti alla Shabbat: Wind the Olin Audito- 9:30a, Olin Audi Tavola ltaliana. down after your rium. The concert torium. Kline President's hectic week. OIJn is free and open Free Fitness Seminars Room, S-6p. Join Moon Room, to the public. us for Italian 7:30p. conversation from Photographer Tracy Feldman 6-7p. All welcome! April 4 & 6: Men and Weight Training: How to Alex :Webb will and Friends will Olin 202, 7p - 9p. visit Bard today as be performing achieve the muscular definition you've always part of the Photog- A Gift of music for guitar, wanted. raphy Lectures Hermes, a lecture clarinet and violin, April 10 ~ 14: Diet and Exercise: How to lose the sponsored by the by Professor Lewis tonight at 8p, extra ten pounds in a healthy manner. Photography ttyde, of Kenyon Bard ttall. Department. Olin College. Spon- 102, 8p. sored by the Institute for Writ- Instructor: Gina Delmont, Bard Athletic Trainer/ ing and Thinking. Fitness Director. Olin Auditorium, 8p. - Stevenson Gymnasium 7:00pm - 8:00p.