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Three weeks ago, the Joint Subcommittee of the Committees on College Life and House Life issued a working draft of a report concerning student organization event management. While this draft is not final, it lays out some important changes regarding the process of hosting large-scale social events in the College. Thankfully, the document suggests helpful and laudable common-sense measures that need to be taken to ensure the safety and success of large-scale social events. Moreover, the process by which the draft was written signifies a constructive departure from the heavy-hand paternalism that was embraced...
...followed by President Bush, who rose to offer C-SPAN viewers another reason to doubt political journalists' ability to be anything but cowardly suck-ups to presidential pomp. In recent years, this event has been known mainly for the fantastic performance in 2006 of Stephen Colbert, the Comedy Central host, who addressed the crowd with a withering critique of both the failures of President Bush and the media. "I stand by this man," Colbert had said sarcastically of Bush, at one point. "I stand by this man because he stands for things. Not only for things, he stands on things...
...Bush was followed by Craig Ferguson, the CBS talk show host, who toned down his normally subversive late night material out of respect for the assembled guests. "What does a President do when he retires?" Ferguson said at one typical moment. "You could look for a job with more vacation time." The best moment of his act came when he appeared to go off script and called Cheney "kind of pervy," yielding no noticeable reaction from the vice president who sat onstage...
Thousands of Japanese riot police were mobilized to safeguard the torch along its 18.7 km (11.6 mi) route in the city of Nagano - the host of the 1998 Winter Olympics. The show of force kept most protesters in line. Compared with those of some previous host cities, Nagano authorities managed to maintain relative calm, but the cacophony of slogans shouted by pro-China or pro-Tibet demonstrators, Japanese nationalists and human rights organizations flooded air already full of the colors of Chinese, Tibetan and Japanese flags. "Clearly, the mix of demonstrators shows that Japan is a peaceful nation after...
...because of Dave.” Soon, though, interest in the center began to grow. “What really struck me was how fast the space came to life...Over the course of the next two years, I witnessed 826 Valencia become a veritable institution, as well as host to a really lively community of writers, students, and teachers.” Feeney dove headfirst into the program, attending as many workshops as he could while tutoring English as a second language and serving on the student editorial board of Houghton-Mifflin’s Best American Nonrequired Reading...