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Recently, even the Concordia student agenda became a locus for controversy. The 2001-2002 student planner—named Uprising after the Palestinian Intifada—claimed that May 15, the anniversary of Israel’s independence, was simply Al Nakba, “the catastrophe.” The planner called July 1, Canada Day, “anti-Canada day,” and encouraged students to burn the flag. And the planner contained an essay claiming that the “‘Jewish’ rector knows how much money the university owes...
...fantastic because it does allow undergraduates to think, “I can do it,” and they can, and we can, and utilize that space, but there isn’t that same institutional hierarchy of support. What ways we can find to connect the locus of institutional support with utilizing these alternative spaces? Of course, this is most important for the dance community...
...course, Saddam Hussein has helped him--political writers who haven't been to Kuwait since the end of the Gulf War are back. Yet al-Sabah wants Kuwait to be known not only as a jumping-off point for war but also as a locus of beaches, shopping and spas. He wants Kuwait to be cool. So he keeps fashion folk interested with events he knows are irresistible to them: Prada caftans! A T-shirt collaboration of British artist Gary Hume and Stella McCartney! Cappellini furniture, reconceived by fashion designers...
...addition of big, shiny gadgets is also viewed as proof that guys are hanging around too. "Men have taken to cooking and made it into a hobby and a locus of consumption and gadgetry," says design critic Thomas Hine. That helps explain the increasing popularity of such accessories as wine coolers, warming drawers, pot fillers and built-in espresso machines the size of church organs. For the ultrachic kitchen that has everything, the impulse is to buy things in pairs: two stoves and two dishwashers. You can throw the kitchen sink into the twofer department...
While final clubs have long been the locus of social life for a select group of men on campus, male Greek organizations increased their campus presence this year...