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...tactic to combat college drinking—it’s called peer pressure. The brand new Office for Alcohol and Other Drug Services (AODS) has championed a “social norms” approach to alcohol abuse, theorizing that since “college students tend to grossly overestimate the number of their peers who engage in high-risk alcohol consumption,” providing data will correct this misconception and make people think twice before drinking. Great, except that if anyone stops and thinks twice at these numbers, it becomes abundantly clear that they mean absolutely nothing...
...fact of military aviation that helicopters flying in combat are accidents waiting to happen. Unlike their fixed-wing brethren, helicopters tend to be slow, which on the battlefield is another word for vulnerable. Beyond that, they tend to fly low, hugging the contours of the terrain in what pilots called nap-of-the-earth flight (that's what upsets unpracticed bellies). The tactic certainly reduces the helicopter's exposure to enemy fire from below, but it doesn't eliminate it. Helicopter pilots speak warily of "golden BBs" that can bring down their bird. There are a fair number of bull...
...full of new books come shopping week. Many undergraduates feel as if they’re stuck buying books there, so as not to fall behind in a class or get stuck with the wrong edition of the text. The problem, however, is that books sold at the Coop tend to be considerably more expensive than the same books sold by online booksellers like Amazon.com or even other book stores. This issue came to a head last week, when a troop of Undergraduate Council (UC) representatives marched into the Coop on a mission. Skipping through the aisles, the small army...
...secular deed, in modern times, was the Balfour Declaration, issued in 1917 by Britain. ''His Majesty's Government,'' it said, ''view with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of this object.'' Jews tend to quote this first part of the declaration without proceeding to the next proviso: ''. . . it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine.'' There, again, is the discrepancy: How can justice be done both...
...Mexico. ''I want to be Jewish. I don't have to apologize. It is my very essence.'' He is an affectionate and demonstrative father, and small children tend to sprawl on his knees and interrupt him with coy, lolling, attention-seeking questions. He pauses during his interview every time to answer the child first. Palestinians? ''There is no Palestine.'' Jews called it Palestine before 1948. The Arabs who call themselves Palestinians are transients. West Bank? ''There is no West Bank in real geography. It is really the west bank of the Dead Sea.'' Dayan does not ''want to offer Arabs...