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Being gay is not about sex; it is about sexual orientation. The designers of many of the posters that were displayed around campus Tuesday morning seem to have lost sight of that concept. Gay awareness should address feelings and preferences rather than sexual acts. A list of rules that the BGLTSA wrote to guide their poster-makers included "No Extreme Profanity" and "No Uncreative Vulgarity"; my question is why the posters required profanity and vulgarity at all, regardless of their creative content. None of the words in BGLTSA's acronym include or imply obscenity in their definitions...
...agrarian society whose primary economic unit is the family farm. The overpopulation is among the first things a visitor notices--and it has been cited as a sociological cause for the genocide. Rwanda is one of those countries, like India, where you are almost never out of sight of another human being. The entire country has been stripped of its jungle, savannah and bush to make way for handkerchief-size plots of manioc or peanuts or the prize cash crop, coffee...
Contributor Eugene Linden is the author of The Future in Plain Sight. You can e-mail him at daily@pathfinder.com
...being issued on DNA sequences whose commercial use is unclear. Though the Patent and Technology Office is trying to reduce the number of approvals it issues, no one doubts the courts will eventually have to step in. But now the rush is on to patent every gene in sight...
...joke film of a man psychoanalyzing a schizophrenic Barbie-doll and then slowly morphed into a profound exploration of the director's own psychoses. Wendy MacNeil and Alice Wingwall gave us their Miss Blindsight: The Wingwall Auditions, a complex documentary about an artist who has lost her sight. These films are just a small sampling of the independent vision that was omnipresent at this festival. Each film felt like a child, like a living form that had been nurtured with love and dedication. These kids also probably drove their parents up the wall and kept them up nights. Wingwall...