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Since it seems likely that the University will approve of a "Wellness Dorm" on East Campus for those freshmen who wish to live a "tobacco-free, alcohol-free and drug-free" life, I would like to propose, in the spirit of diversity and variety, that there be another elective house available to freshmen.
It is said that lightning never strikes the same spot twice.
As the only native, born-and-bred, honest-to-goodness Irish student at the University, I hereby give my seal of approval to the James Joyce Irish Pub on Main St., hereafter to be called "the Jimmy Joyce." Drinks are in order for Niall, Brendan, Fergus, Frank and rest of the boys there for introducing a taste of the home country to this wasteland that is Durham, N.C.
Most of us have followed with a great deal of interest the trial of Louise Woodward, the 19-year-old English au pair who was convicted of the second-degree murder of baby Matthew Eappen. The jury, as everyone now knows, decided that Woodward killed Matthew, who was just eight months old, by violently shaking him and hitting his head against a hard flat surface, which resulted in damage to his skull. This qualified as killing him with malice, but without premeditation-hence the verdict of second-degree, rather than first-degree, murder.
A lot has been said already about the whitewashing of the queer pride slogans on the East Campus bridge by the Department of Facilities Management. What concerns me here is not the incident itself-which Tallman Trask has publicly admitted was "an error in judgment which cannot be condoned"-but the debate about whether or not, in the context of students painting slogans on University property, the University frustrated a legitimate expression of free speech.
Newspapers in this country have done a pretty good job of keeping readers informed of what is going on in Northern Ireland politics-that is, about the agreement of Sinn Fein to the Mitchell principles, and the possibility now of real dialogue between Sinn Fein (representing the extreme Catholic nationalists who want to unite North and South) and the Ulster Unionist Party (representing one strand of Protestants who wish to maintain the Union with Britain). One problem about the wire services in the United States, however, is that they tend to concentrate on this aspect of Irish politics to the exclusion of much else. Although the "Northern Question" is the most important political topic in Ireland, it is not the only topic, nor is it always the most interesting topic.
The death of Princess Diana in a horrific car crash in Paris came as a very upsetting shock to me, as I am sure it did to many of you. No one who watched that glittering marriage on TV all those years ago-how young and innocent Diana looked then-could ever have imagined that it would come to this: dying in Paris in a car with a new playboy boyfriend, away from her family, attempting to escape from the press. Our first thoughts, of course, go immediately to her sons, now completely in the hands of the Queen and Prince Charles (the man who declared that he had never loved Diana). Hopefully, something of her will survive in them.
Later this year the Supreme Court will decide on two cases, one from Washington State and one from New York, which pose the question of whether dying patients have the right to have doctors supply them with lethal drugs-that is, whether people have the right to assisted suicide.
Some of us think that being asked to write a term paper on what Aristotle meant by "human flourishing" is tough. President Clinton, however, in response to the successful cloning of a sheep by scientists in Scotland, has given a Federal bioethics committee exactly 90 days, not to "reach any conclusion or make specific recommendations for legislation or regulation"-that, it seems, would be too much to ask-but, and I quote, "only to 'review the legal and ethical implications of this technology'" (The New York Times, Feb. 25).
Let me begin by saying-or admitting, if you prefer-that I was not present at the infamous bench-burning incident on West Campus. Neither did I witness the events that preceded it.
There has been a great deal of discussion lately about the new system of grading that the University is contemplating. I, for one, have yet to be convinced that this new system is a remedy for the University's current ills, but it is heartening to think that there are others who agree with me that there are current ills.
As The Chronicle pointed out ("Professor critiques post-modernist thinkers," Nov. 25), Alan Sokal is a "self-described leftist," and his reasons for hoaxing the journal Social Text were, as he stated in his Nov. 22 speech, "basically political." Sokal blames cultural theory and French post-structuralism for the general decline in solid, hard-hitting criticism of the gross economic disparity and social inequality created by capitalism.
In the latest issue of the academic review magazine Lingua Franca, Frank Lentricchia, a professor of literature at the University, declares that: "An advanced literature department is the place where you can write a dissertation on Wittgenstein and never have to face an examiner from the philosophy department. An advanced literature department is the place where you may speak endlessly about gender and never have to face the scrutiny of a biologist, because gender is just a social construction and nature doesn't exist."
