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ADAMS Eric Nelson 3-2111 enelson SAC Students Affairs Committee Chair Tom Brown 3-0732 ctbrown SAC Rachel Barber 3-2113 rbarber SAC Rocky Fishman 3-2112 rfishman CLC Lev Polinsky 3-2112 polinsky FIN...
CABOT Matthew Aliberti 3-5794 aliberti SAC Mike Bush 3-5819 mbush FIN Colleen Gaard 3-5970 gaard SAC Geoffrey King 3-6420 giking...
CURRIER Adam Vaina 287-8034 avaina SAC Rami Elghanayan 3-6886 elghanay CLC David Lerch 3-7000 lerch FIN...
These cathedral spires of the highway were gaudy advertisements for an America that owned three-quarters of the earth's cars. Automobiles were the symbols as well as the vehicles of individual and national progress, so why shouldn't Americans have the most ostentatious models--with new fins each year? At the height of fin fashion, American cars (with sticker prices about the cost of a Levittown house) resembled the pagoda-shouldered pottery courtesans in Tang dynasty tombs--exotica from a lost age of extravagance. The 1958 recession sent the style into decline. Fin de siecle...
Nevertheless, the prejudice that we most firmly share with Luce and Hadden is a fundamental optimism. For them, optimism--a faith in progress--was not just a creed, it was a tactic for making things better. The challenges of a new millennium as well as today's fin-de-siecle scandals require that reporters be skeptical. But we must avoid the journalistic cynicism--as a pose, as a sophomoric attitude--that reigned in the '70s and '80s. Intelligent skepticism can, and should, be compatible with a basic belief in progress and a faith in humanity's capacity for common sense...