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...Snow Falls, Dollar Plunges Finance: True to his name, U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snow sent a chill through currency markets last week, apparently reversing the Bush Administration's "strong dollar policy" when he said he didn't see "anything troubling" in the dollar's plunge of 20% over the past year. The buck promptly hit a four-year low of $1.10 to the euro. And while Snow spent the next day scrambling to "reiterate my support for the strong dollar," it plumbed new lows throughout the week - pushed down by a huge 300,000 increase in U.S. unemployment during February...
Most of the Crimson’s half-dozen challengers this weekend are northern teams as well and have been equally plagued by the weather. Bucknell had each of its first ten scheduled games canceled due to snow and inclimate weather. Lehigh (1-0) has had eight games canceled...
...worthwhile advocacy agenda, given society’s history of male dominance. Unfortunately, in any group, a few reckless loudmouths can tarnish the entire movement’s image. Lecturer in Women’s Studies Diane L. Rosenfeld is one of those individuals (News, “Ruined Snow Penis Stimulates Debate...
Furthermore, as Rosenfeld herself noticed, the snow statue was built in “a public space.” Barring an active assault by the sculpture, her description of the object as “menacing” is highly subjective at best. Given our nation’s historically vigorous defense of freedom of expression, the burden of proof lies with Rosenfeld to explain what distinguishes this snow sculpture from, for example, a painting of the Virgin Mary with feces smeared across it (a piece no doubt “menacing” to Christians, but nonetheless protected...
...read with interest the story (News, “Ruined Snow Penis Stimulates Debate”, Feb. 24) on the giant snow penis structure. Where was the comment from Harvard’s administration? What if students had built a snow sculpture of a Nazi swastika or the confederate flag? As a sculpture, a snow penis can’t cause much direct harm, but it clearly serves as a powerful symbol of sexual dominance and gendered violence. Would Harvard’s administration have been so deafeningly silent if students built a sculpture that symbolized race dominance or ethnic...