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Intern’s NYC Survival Guide p. 8 Marriage Madness p. 14 Staff editor’s voice Editor-in-Chief Danielle Emig AJ: Ever wanted to “fall in love with a dead woman”? Managing Editors !en read Christina Levin’s feature on page 12 about Kristin Hunt Matilda Joslyn Gage, a 185-year-old deceased feminist who scrutinized Christianity and campaigned for Shaun Janis women’s reproductive rights. Too bad she missed out Executive Editors on the April 7 rally for Planned Parenthood, which we documented in this issue’s photo journal on page 6. Carolyn Clark Dan Kaplan VT: After the excitement of landing my dream internship wore o", the expensive Front of Book Editor reality of the unpaid internship took over. To Dana Falcone add to the mounting costs of living in NYC, my internship requires me to receive credit. Entertainment Editor Great, right? Paying over $1,000 per credit to Melissa Savignano provide free labor is a concept I can’t wrap my mind around. Although I am thrilled for Features Editor the experience, I would love a paycheck. In Ian Carlino this issue, learn how to survive the dreaded unpaid NYC internship on page 8. !is Asst. Features Editors practical advice will help you cut costs and Madelyn Perez make the most of your free labor.

Tory Wolk AJ: Screw Mayfest, this Friday I’m Opinions Editor speaking in my best faux-British accent and drinking to royal wedded bliss. Shots all Ashley Jonson around every time the queen and/or Elton John Asst. Opinions Editor appear on-screen. Cheers! (And thanks to “A Royal A"air” on page 14 for the inspiration.) Victoria Troxler Art Director Deuces, Crystal White Ashley and Victoria Design Director Melia Robinson Design Editors Allison Clark Q&A 04 Let’s Talk About Sex Lindsey Colegrove Maggie Reilly Features 08 How to Survive an Unpaid Talia Roth Summer Internship in NYC Andrew Yearick 12 Classic Feminism Reignited Web Editor Sam Knehans Entertainment 14 A Royal Affair Asst. Web Editor Opinions 15 Give Peace a Chance Brandon Weight

cover photo Danielle Emig

02 TOP Quote of the Week popular culture Drinking 10 words Kristin Hunt & It’s astounding to me how angelic you Games Melissa Savignano sing ... your crescendos and 1. “Mad Men” Drink every time they light a new cigarette, take minuen—innuendos, the a drag, pour a new drink, or sip it. Basic, but it will ups and downs as they say ... shock you how much this game never happened. 2. “Say Yes to the Dress” You’ll get just as smashed as you would at the — Steven Tyler on Jacob Lusk’s performance wedding. Drink whenever the dress is ugly or overpriced, the mom is mean, someone cries, or of “Bridge Over Troubled Water” on “American Idol” Randy is sassy. 3. “Community” Whenever there’s a pop culture reference, Shirley says, “That’s nice,” Pierce is racist, the dean is sexually ambiguous, or Troy and Abed have sexual tension. Just be careful not to leave too many 3 a.m. calls with BCI—booty call implication—afterwards. 4. Harry Potter Movies 4 Raise your goblet any time Emma Watson has x ridiculous eyebrow expressions, Ron is scared or acts high, Malfoy is a weasly bitch, or Dumbledore has a by George Clarke Sarah Sterns Reid Searles Lavonde Spencer heart-to-heart with Harry. Marwa Eltagouri 4 Sophomore Sophomore Freshman Junior 5. “Pushing Daisies” Newspaper Communications Advertising Inclusive & Special The facts are these: you have to drink whenever Ned Journalism Design Education brings someone back to life or kills them, anyone’s full name is used, or the narrator says....”The facts were these.” 1. How will you I have no I have way too Probably 6. “Gilmore Girls” be celebrating interest much work to I’m going to do. I haven’t watching it You’ll need a taco to cure your hangover after this the royal whatsoever. It’s New York City. somewhere. party. Pick up your Rory cocktails every time there’s wedding? even though a distraction. about it. a reference you don’t understand, Rory acts like a journalist, Lorelai says “dirty,” there’s a Friday Night Dinner, or the girls order takeout or drink coffee. 7. “Arrested Development” 2. Do you have Hey brother, here’s the rules for drinking with the I’d like to see any idea who Bluths: Tobias is sexually inappropriate, Gob fails at an Not really. an American Not really. No idea. will be designing illusion, Lucille is drinking, George Michael awkwardly Kate Middleton’s designer. dress? loves Maeby, or when “No touching” or “Hey brother” is actually said. Disclaimer: this game is easier than it looks. Plan to watch a few episodes. 8. Twilight Movies I think it’s Take a drink everytime Edward Cullen sparkles or People have I guess it’s 3. What do you a right to the important because glares, Bella acts like a clutz or tries to bring up sex, think of all the I don’t think it’s somewhat hype, but they we don’t really Kristen Stewart’s acting chops are really challenged, or hype the royal necessary. warranted, get to hear about wedding has also have the but it’s kind of the word vampire is said. Don’t worry about getting events happening hammered too quickly—that’s the only way to tolerate been receiving? right to abstain. over-hyped. overseases. these movies. 9. The Keanu Reeves Collection Very simple: Regardless of the movie, though we 4. How do you I haven’t heard recommend Point Break or Speed, drink up whenever I don’t think it anything about think the SU I don’t think Keanu looks confused or says “woah.” Don’t try this I haven’t heard has that great it. I have a British community much about it. anybody really one at home, kids. of an impact on friend who has cares. perceives the SU. 10. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off royal wedding? been a little invested. Skip school and follow these rules: Whenever Ferris addresses the camera, Cameron freaks out or resists having fun, or Ferris’ illness is referenced, especially the “Save Ferris” campaign.

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LET’S TALK ABOUT TALK LET’S

words Danielle Emig photo Shaun Janis

04 04.25.11 SV Q&A Vox: Voices for Planned Parenthood at Q Syracuse University is a student organization &A When you !rst heard the news of the possibility of that educates students about sexual health Planned Parenthood being defunded, what were you thinking? and supports Planned Parenthood. The Student I almost didn’t believe it. I mean, I knew it was happening, but it just Voice spoke with Vox president Rachel Booth couldn’t commute in my brain the fact that people would want to about her involvement in Vox and her opinion defund Planned Parenthood because it does so many great things for on the Republican effort to cut Planned people who are uninsured, and who are insured but love the entire Parenthood’s funding. reproductive health focus of it. Q& Q& A You introduced Senator Chuck Schumer at the A Can you explain what Vox is and what you do? Women’s Health Rally in DC. Were you nervous at all? #ere are many de"nitions, but I like that it is a campus advocacy I was. I was OK until I was standing at the bottom of the stairs and I organization. It informs, it advocates, it presents information—any could see all the crowd. But I had done the two rallies in Syracuse and I type of issue surrounding sexual health. I’m the president of Vox and I had spoken at those so I kept reminding myself, I’m just in Syracuse. have been since November. Q Q &A How did you get involved with Vox? &A How did you get chosen? I am doing my internship at Planned Parenthood and I was sort of Chuck Schumer is a huge proponent for women’s health and he looking for my niche, for something to do. I was talking to KaeLyn was going to speak at the rally and they needed someone from New Rich, who used to be the community a!airs coordinator, and she was York to introduce him. When Planned Parenthood put on the bus saying that there wasn’t anyone for Vox and I said, “Sweet! I’ll do it, I tour, with their big pink bus traveling to all these cities all across will totally take it over”—and I was under no impression that it would the country, they went to a couple in New York State and they had go far, I just wanted to get it going for the next group of people. remembered me speaking at the Syracuse rally. #ey asked me to introduce Chuck Schumer since I’m from New York.

Q I knew it was happening, but it just

&A What has Vox done this year? couldn’t commute in my brain the It hosted David Benzaquen from NARAL, which is the national pro- fact that people would want to choice organization. It’s also done tabling in Schine. Basically what “defund Planned Parenthood because“ I’ve been trying to do to is to "nd a new president and make sure it does so many great things for everything is all set because it was a mess before I got it. people who are uninsured, and who are insured but love the entire Q reproductive health focus of it. &A Do you feel happy where it’s going right now? Q &A Why is Planned Parenthood important to you? I do. I really do. It would have been hard for a person not working at Planned Parenthood to take it over. It would have been hard because I’m thinking about my demographic—young women in college—but they’re not at Planned Parenthood all the time and I’m happy with it listens to what they want. It supports them, and I don’t think a lot what’s going on. It’s been great because I feel like there’s this little of other health care organizations really do—like primary care, which community, you know SASSE does the sexual empowerment and then I’m sure is fantastic—but Planned Parenthood has that type of support Sex S.Y.M.B.A.L.S. is for people of color, and Vox isn’t just for Planned and interest in how you’re doing and what you want to do with your Parenthood. I think there’s such a great community on campus that reproductive health life. It’s important, it provides a lot of great health needs a coordination like Vox. I think Vox will partner with a lot of care. No matter what you believe, with only three percent of abortions, other organizations. And hopefully it will create a coalition, that was it still provides 97 percent of cancer screenings, breast exams, and birth my idea at the beginning of the semester. control. It almost prevents the abortions that it does by providing these services. Q& A What do you do as an intern at Planned Parenthood? Q& I do Vox, and I also help with Real Life. Real Talk, which is a A What are your hopes for Vox in the future? campaign in the community that supports parents and adults talking I hope it creates a membership. I hope that people know about it on to kids about sexuality. I do programming and recruiting community campus a little bit more. I hope that it creates a connection between partners. #is month is reading literacy month so we’re doing a bunch campus and Planned Parenthood—people on campus may not know of di!erent events. We just did a gala to try to get more donors for that Planned Parenthood is like two blocks away. I hope it’s able to put Real Life. Real Talk. #e kids in the community are going to do their on speakers, movie screenings, informational sessions about reproductive own version of “16 and Pregnant.” And Peggy Orenstein is coming; health and issues that are being missed on campus. she talks about girly girl culture and pink. 05 1 photos Danielle Emig rally 4health On Thursday, April 7, thousands of supporters from all over the country traveled in charter buses to Washington, D.C. for the Stand Up for Women’s Health Rally on The National Mall. A stage was set up in front of the Capitol where several speakers shared their personal stories and explained why Planned Parenthood is important for women’s health. Speakers included Sens. Chuck Schumer and Patty Murray, actor Ed Harris, actress Amy Madigan, and president of Planned Parenthood, Cecile Richards.

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1 A couple waits for the planned speakers at the rally.

2 Supporters hold up signs as actor and women’s health advocate Ed Harris speaks with his wife and daughter.

3 After the rally, several groups made lobby appointments to encourage members of Congress to not defund Planned Parenthood.

4 Groups of people gather on The National Mall equipped with T-shirts and signs.

5 Syracuse and Rochester residents speak to Congresswoman Ann Marie Buerkle (R-NY) about why Planned Parenthood is important to them. photos Danielle Emig 3

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How to Survive an Unpaid Summer in NYCwords Hannah Doolin art Kristin Phillips

hen I found out that I got the position as a anyone in New York City, and I didn’t know one thing summer editorial intern at Country Living about living on my own without a meal plan. Wmagazine, I was ecstatic. All of my e!ort–"ying Moving more than 600 miles away and surviving an frantically into JFK, rushing to make it to interviews– unpaid summer in the big bad city was a whirlwind, but had actually been worth the trouble. I was about to start also a wonderful learning experience. After three months, adding some real experience to my resume (let’s face it, more than 100 subway rides, and too many cups of co!ee, “Volunteer Vacation Bible School Teacher” had to go). I learned a few tricks that will help any NYC newcomer #en the haze of excitement and pride began to fade away, survive in the Big Apple. and I realized three things: I had no money, I barely knew

08 09 Treat Your away!” Also, keep comfortable $ats or sandals editorial assistant at MORE magazine, attended in your bag so you can swap them for your the Siren Music Festival at Coney Island, where 1Feet Well heels before your trek to the subway. Flip-$ops Matt and Kim headlined last summer. “!e !ere’s no greater reminder that you’re not may not match your business-casual ensemble, concert was free, and there were two stages a native New Yorker than a cherry-red blister but your feet will thank you. with over ten acts,” she says. “If you look in pulsing on your heel or toe as you navigate the the right places you can easily #nd cheap but o"ce, and the delicate feet of newbie city Track Down awesome entertainment.” Another tip: Follow slickers are guaranteed to take a beating. your favorite restaurants and stores on Twitter. As a Midwesterner who wore heels only Free Stuff Be the #rst to learn about deals and giveaways. for prom, I had to learn the hard way 2 PulseJFK and UrbanDaddy tweet about free that no shoes can save you from the Anyone will tell you that New York City is food, sales, and exciting events all over the city wrath of NYC sidewalks–not even Cole an expensive place to live, but there are plenty that easily #t your budget. Haan wedges equipped with Nike Air of things to do in Manhattan that cost less than technology. So do yourself a favor and a subway ride. You just have to know where to Learn to Love prepare your feet for the long day look–and your ticket’s often no farther than the ahead. First: carry Band-Aids. You will corner magazine stand. Time Out New York and Street Food need them more than you think. “My New York Magazine are both packed with gems 3 grandma gave me a keychain Band- of information on where to track down an Cooking for yourself can be a daunting Aid holder before I moved to the city open bar with a rooftop view, #nd out where task after a full workday, especially if you don’t and I thought it was ridiculous,” you can wander a gallery or museum with have a fully stocked kitchen. Fortunately, food says Sara Claro, my fellow intern no admission fee, or catch a comedy show trucks and street vendors create a lot of dining at Country Living and a junior without dropping a dime. Feel like jamming options for hungry interns on a meager budget, at New York University. “But out at an outdoor concert, but don’t have $70 or for anyone who wants a fun, easy meal. And as soon as I started walking for a ticket? !ese two magazines have the you’ll be glad to know that menu options are around the city for the #rst 411 on some awesome bands playing for free. no longer limited to soft pretzels and “street time, it came in handy right Jamie Miles, a recent Syracuse grad and meat.” Monica Willis, former features director

10 04.25.11 SV features at Country Living, loves grabbing lunch from bank account needs, and it can be fun. Drop environment and observing the inside workings the Rickshaw Dumpling Truck parked across by Duane Reade to pick up a Blockbuster of an industry can give you great insight, the street from Hearst Tower. “Almost every Express DVD ($1-a-day per rental) and and interactions with co-workers can lead Wednesday, I wait in line to buy the chicken some microwave popcorn, and you’ll have a to valuable networking connections. Your and chive dumplings,” she says. “Everything’s relaxing evening at almost no cost. Besides, internship could be a stepping-stone on the super-fresh and I love that they use organic you know you’ve been wanting to see Leonardo way to a job you’ve always wanted. When you chicken.” In addition to giving your microwave DiCaprio’s new release... realize that your sacri"ced summer at the beach a rest, street-vendor menu options often go was spent in service of something greater, you easy on your wallet. Track down the Wafels & Make it Worth might even feel a little tingle of pride. Bask in Dinges truck, and you can feast on a Belgian the moment; you deserve it. wa!e topped with three scoops of ice cream, Your While chocolate fudge, and whipped cream for a mere 5 Moving to an unfamiliar city with little or no "ve bucks. Doesn’t that beat a bowl of Ramen? $e life of a poor, lonely intern can be money in your pocket will be anything but easy, rough, but after spending a few days (or weeks) but remember these simple tips and you can dive Know When muttering about how rude New Yorkers are and head"rst into the experience with con"dence. mourning over the money you’re not making, Your prison-cell-sized apartment may not be the To Say No it’s time to get a grip. You’re living in one of Tribeca penthouse you’ve always dreamed of, 4 the greatest cities in the world, and you’re there but everyone starts somewhere. Hit the streets of Living in a city that never sleeps can bring for a reason: to create opportunities for your New York with a subway map in hand and watch about an urge to hit as many clubs and bars future. Put on a smile and perform your intern out for those reckless cab drivers. $is summer as possible on weekends, but unless you snag tasks to the best of your ability, no matter how is going to be a wild ride that will transform you a high-grossing part-time job or receive a irrelevant the job may seem. Although bubble into a seasoned New Yorker. You’ll be hungry for generous weekly allowance from Mom and wrapping may not be a coveted skill to add to another taste of the Big Apple before you know Dad, this probably won’t be happening often. your résumé, chances are your superiors are it, and ready to hunt for an internship that will Turning down invites can be frustrating watching carefully, and a positive attitude and put some cash in your pocket. and di#cult, but a night in alone or with willingness to help where you can will pay o%. fellow interns might be just the relief your $e experience of working in a professional

11 Classic Feminism Reignited A Syracuse University professor and students embrace a brand of feminism made popular 185 years ago

words Christina Levin art Emily Watanabe

12 04.25.11 SV features Engraved across Matilda Joslyn Gage’s undoing the heavy burdens and letting the Parenthood from the recent federal budget tombstone is her lifelong motto: “!ere is a oppressed go free,” Gage is quoted in She Who proposal,” Warren says. “She was all about word sweeter than Mother, Home or Heaven; Holds the Sky. “But from the Church and from reproductive rights and a woman’s mastery of that word is Liberty.” theology this reform has met opposition at her own body.” One hundred eighty-"ve years after her every step.” Margot Manasevit, a junior Latin American birth, the words of the social justice advocate Hannah Warren, a junior magazine studies and Spanish double major, says she has live on today, manifested in the work of journalism and women’s and gender studies maintained Gage’s spirit by focusing on human historian Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner and her double major, says she can relate to Gage’s rights during her semester abroad. students at Syracuse University. views, and commends Gage’s courage to “Right now I have an internship at the Wagner, an adjunct professor in the critique a religious institution. Museum of Memory and Human Rights in Renée Crown University Honors Program “I really admire how much of a liberal Santiago, Chile, working with UN documents who teaches the school’s History of Women’s she was,” Warren says. “Hearing about that describe the international reaction from Su#rage course, helped found one of the how she spoke member countries nation’s "rst women’s studies programs at out against the toward the dictatorship California State University in 1970. Wagner Church’s systematic The topics Gage brought in Chile from 1973 to is also executive director of the Matilda Joslyn subjugation of to the forefront of public 1990,” she says. “!e Gage Foundation, which is headquartered in women really just museum deals with her home at the corner of East Genesee and gave a voice to the discourse—from Native historical memory Walnut Streets. way I’ve felt since American rights to birth of the human rights In 1978, Wagner was one of the "rst I left home for violations of the women to earn a Ph.D. in the discipline from college.” control—remain relevant dictatorship that the University of California Santa Cruz. Part of Gage spoke “to this day. included censorship, her motivation, she says, was to take a di#erent and wrote about a torture, exile, look at history. range of social issues executions, and “I grew up hating history,” says Wagner. “It because she saw many of them as interconnected. imprisonment—all things that Gage would was a story of rich, white men and their wars, She believed freedom meant dismantling systems surely have spoken out against.” and it didn’t relate to my life at all.” of inequality for all oppressed groups, according Gage’s outlook and free thinking appeals to Wagner “fell in love with a dead woman”— to She Who Holds the Sky. students today. Wagner feels that this allows them Gage—because she found a voice in this early “Unless liberty is attained—the broadest, to direct their energy to issues they care about. feminist she thought was absent from the the deepest, the highest liberty for all—not for” “In my experience, students have found in mainstream narrative of women’s rights history. one set alone, one clique alone, but for man Gage a perspective, or understanding, and a “What I thought of as the women’s and woman, black and white, Irish, Germans, raising of a lot of issues that have meaning in movement was women asking for the right Americans and Negroes, there can be no their lives,” she says. “Her perspective and her to vote,” she says. “Gage was talking about permanent peace,” she said at one point. vision really encourages them to question.” reproductive rights, she was talking about equal !ough she was an abolitionist her whole Wagner says she hopes the Gage pay for equal work, she was talking about the life, Wagner says that Gage was drawn more to Foundation will continue to promote a spirit of issues that we were dealing with—and she also the woman su#rage movement in her later years independent thought and open discussion. did this with a fearlessness I could not believe.” after reading reports from the "rst national “What we want to create is a safe While Gage’s fearlessness invigorated her women’s rights convention in 1850. environment, where people can respectfully radical approach to women’s rights, she never Gage ended up working toward women’s listen to opinions other than their own—and achieved the historical recognition usually given su#rage for most of her life, even helping found make informed decisions about the issues to su#ragists such as Susan B. Anthony and the National Woman Su#rage Association that we need to deal with in this democracy,” Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Scholars like Wagner with Anthony and Stanton. She edited and she says. consider her as one of the “forgotten feminists,” published the organization’s o$cial newspaper, For Warren, such ideals are integral to social and she even had the audacity to scrutinize the !e National Citizen and Ballot Box, justice movements and to improving society. centerpiece of Christianity: the Church. from 1878 to 1881, according to the Gage “I think any rebel or head of a political “!e theory that woman brought sin and Foundation’s website. movement, like Gage, is still extremely relevant,” death into the world, and that therefore she !e topics Gage brought to the forefront of Warren says. “We need people like her today to was punished by being placed in a condition of public discourse—from Native American rights keep us thinking and moving forward.” inferiority to man—a condition of subjection, to birth control—remain relevant to this day. of subordination—this is the foundation today Warren, who is the founding editor-in- of the Christian Church,” Gage is quoted in chief of feminist campus publication Medusa Wagner’s book, She Who Holds the Sky. Magazine, says Gage would likely denounce Gage was not opposed to religion itself, some current proposals attacking reproductive however, since she believed that its true purpose rights if she were alive. is emancipatory. “I think Matilda Joslyn Gage would be “It is not religion that has opposed woman really, really pissed about the Republican su#rage, because true religion believes in attempts to cut funding for Planned

13 entertainment SV 04.25.11 a ROYAL words Melissa Savignano affair art Crystal White Why Mayfest won’t be the only celebration on April 29

On April 29, while the Syracuse University junior broadcast and digital media community will be taking the day o! for major, grew up adoring the princess Mayfest, England will be celebrating for a and her two sons. di!erent a reason—the royal wedding of Prince “Princess Diana was one of William and Kate Middleton. "e event will the #rst ‘celebrities’ I was aware of undoubtedly add a touch of class to some and one of the #rst icons I looked people’s pre-Block Party festivities, but, for up to,” she says. “I remember others, it won’t even be a blimp on their radar. seeing pictures of Diana and But the royal wedding isn’t just another Charles’ wedding and this is celebrity wedding. It still dominates the our generation’s. We’ve watched tabloids, but it also comes with an array of William grow up.” collectables. Fans can buy a plate with the Garga also cites the surge of couple’s face or a Middleton doll in her famous social media and the increase in blue dress. "eir image has been used to sell entertainment news and outlets almost anything, including their own brand of since the 1981 wedding as a reason for her will get as close to the action as most civilians condoms, Crown Jewels. According to Church’s attraction to it. She will report on it for can. Ali Mierzejewski, a junior magazine China, one of the top retailers of royal wedding CitrusTV News on campus and plans to Skype journalism major who is abroad in London this memorabilia, half of their online sales have with a friend who is abroad in London during semester, says the frenzy surrounding the event come from Americans. the coverage. has died down for the time being. She says she Diana Pearl, a freshman magazine Despite the hoopla, for every excited fan, hasn’t heard much about the event for the last journalism and English and textual studies you’ll #nd another American who is turned couple of weeks, but describes the list of events major, is one of those Americans. She has o! by it, wondering how monarchy suddenly for the wedding day as anything but dead. four special edition magazines, became cool. “Trafalgar Square is having big screens follows the wedding on Twitter, showing the wedding. Over 10,000 people are and penciled in the Lifetime TV Americans don’t have royalty. The expected to show up to watch it. And this is all Movie, William and Kate, which English monarchy is the closest thing just a part of a giant parade commemorating premiered on April 18. it,” she says. Mierzejewski adds that over While she enjoys Hollywood we have. We’re sort of fascinated and 500,000 people are expected to go to Hyde gossip, this is the #rst celebrity intrigued by the unknown. - Diana Pearl Park for a royal wedding picnic. She says that wedding she has invested time “ she will probably end up in Hyde Park because into. She says her attraction to the event is Carrie Sunde views Princess Diana as to get a spot at Trafalgar Square she would have mainly because she missed out on the other a reason not to give into the hype. Since a to camp outside. epic royal wedding. paparazzi chase led to Princess Diana’s fatal car Americans may never see hoopla like this “I’ve always had a weird fascination with crash, Sunde #nds it weird to read” the gossip surrounding a wedding again, even if Brad and Prince William and English royalty,” she says. about her son. Sunde, a freshman broadcast Angelina decide to marry. Whether people are “Since I wasn’t alive for the Diana and Charles’ and digital journalism major, doesn’t see the reporting, getting up at 6:00 a.m. on a day o! wedding, I’m so excited for this one.” importance of the people getting married or from classes, or simply avoiding the wedding Pearl doesn’t plan on forgoing Mayfest understand why people like Kanye West are all together, Mayfest will have to compete with traditions, but since coverage of the wedding attending. “"ey’re #gure heads. "e prime another holiday this year. starts at 6:00 a.m., she won’t have to miss out minister is important. Maybe the monarchy “Americans don’t have royalty,” Pearl says. on either big day. was important once, but now it just seems like “"e English monarchy is the closest thing we A fascination with Princess Diana has spurred two perfectly nice people with money.” have. We’re sort of fascinated and intrigued by the interest for other fans as well. Nena Garga, a While Sunde will not be watching, one fan the unknown.”

14 04.25.11 SV opinions Give U.S. soldiers murder innocent Afghan civilians PEACEa and mutilate their corpses words Ashley Jonson CHANCE art Micah Benson

Last week, I opened the April 14 edition of untold millions of people across the globe anniversary of the Iraq War—I urge people to Rolling Stone to a picture of a uniformed U.S. throughout the years, including 1.3 million give peace a chance and realize that no war is soldier prodding the severed, bloody head of an Americans. Like our “enemies,” these dead without casualty. During the Vietnam War, unidenti!ed Afghan with a piece of wood. men and women leave mourning family and paci!sts demanded that the war end—and it "e pictures continued: legs severed at the friends. "ose who survive the battle!eld did. I want our generation to have the same knee, shoes still attached; two dead farmers return home psychologically and physically passion for peace. tied together on the side of a rocky rural road; tormented. Today, almost 20 percent of the Corporal Jeremy Morlock smiling next to combat-hardened soldiers who return from the dead body of 15-year-old Gul Mudin, his Iraq su#er from post-traumatic stress face crusted with dirt and dried blood, after a disorder, a debilitating anxiety soldier cut o# his right pinky !nger. disorder that "e images are nauseating, and soldiers forces soldiers from the Army’s 3rd Platoon took hundreds to violently of them, twisted war mementos to celebrate relive the and remember their kills. (Military o$cials traumas of have charged and convicted several soldiers— war. PTSD also including Morlock—for killing Afghan a#ects families: civilians). I never imagined I would see soldiers Research released posing with maimed corpses—even those of the by the U.S. “enemy.” Enemy or not, these corpses are real Department of people, with family and friends who I am sure Veterans A#airs remain haunted by their murders. found that male In sick irony, the soldiers accused of veterans with PTSD participating in this “kill team” are part of a were two to three times brigade based out of Tacoma, Wash., only 30 more likely to engage in miles south of where I grew up. domestic violence than But when I grew up, my parents taught me those without it. “hate” was the ultimate four-letter word, and Since military the only violence I witnessed was Road Runner violence has such devastating dropping a cartoon anvil on Wile E. Coyote e#ects, it disgusts me that in during Saturday morning cartoons. Later, I February President Obama spent my high school years acting like a 1960s proposed a $671 billion %ower child living in the wrong generation, defense budget for !scal year organizing walk-outs, anti-war protests, and 2012, including $118 billion wanting to “drop acid, not bombs.” for overseas con%ict. "is I still don’t understand how peace can be accounts for almost 20 percent achieved through violence, but during my four of our country’s budget and is a years at Syracuse University, I’ve felt like I live stark contrast to the measly $48.8 in a bubble, totally disconnected from life o# billion allocated to the Department of the Hill. So I was shocked this year when, while Education. According to !e Atlantic, this reading my Air Force ROTC class (ASC 296: translates to $30 spent on war and military "e Development of Airpower 1947 to Present) personnel for every $1 spent on low textbook, I learned airmen receive praise based income students. on the number of “kills” they achieve. "is As the War on Terror rhetoric needs to change. continues—March "e Rolling Stone article reminds me why 20 marked I was raised a paci!st. U.S. warfare has killed the eighth

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