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MTV Moves to Washington Heights: Ha! Just kidding, they'd never actually move MTV above 96th street, but the network of choice for Teen Moms and those that are Underemployed have a new television brethren in their midsts: the folks of Washington Heights, an area of Manhattan way, way uptown. (When I lived in Harlem we called it the Upper, Upper West Side.) The new docu-reality series—because of course—will follow a group of nine friends who attempt "to navigate the obstacles that stand in the way of their individual pursuits, which include fashion, music, baseball and poetry. Although they're not all blood related, they still consider each other family, as every setback, celebration and next step on the road to success brings them closer together."
TLC has Royal Baby Fever, New Special: Of course they do! The Learning Channel (they're still calling themselves that these days, eh?) has announced a new special titled Wills and Kate: A Royal Baby Story. Christmas really came early for those guys, didn't it? The special will air on December 16 at 8PM. [Variety]
Up All Night Nabs New Showrunner: They're really going all "out with the old, in with the new" on this show, aren't they? After recently announcing that the show would go from single-camera to a multi-camera show with a live studio audience, we really thought that we'd seen everything that could happen to Up All Night. And then the news came that they're switching showrunners! Looks like former Nurse Jackie co-creator/co-showrunner Linda Wallem has joined the show as executive producer/showrunner. She replaces Tucker Cawley, who took over showrunner duties at the beginning of season two. Not all is lost for Cawley, though, who will now serve as a consulting producer to The Mindy Project. [Deadline]
Once Upon A Time's Frankenstein has Daddy Issues: I mean, OK, we don't know that yet. BUT! One thing we do know is that Gregory Itzin is set to guest-star in an upcoming season two episode as Dr. Alphonse Frankenstein. I've heard stories about the bride of Frankenstein, but nothing about his dad. We'll find out all about him though, in the season's 12th episode. [TVLine]
Chicago Fire Sets Everwood Star Aflame: Dad Alert! Dad Alert! That's right, we have another dad making his way into primetime. This time, it's the series Chicago Fire, who recently nabbed former Everwood (remember that show?) Treat Williams to play fatherly towards Taylor Kinney's character, Kelly Severide. Daddy-o over here will appear in a multi-episode arc, and is named Benny. He's a real mean-muggin' fellow fire tough-guy who apparently has an on/off relationship with Kelly. (OK so maybe the daddy issues on this show are real). Family! I'm tellin' ya. [TV Guide]
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No. 11: Olay Smooth Finish Facial Hair Removal Duo, $26.99
TotalBeauty.com average member rating: 8.5*Why it's great: Readers love that this hair removal cream product comes with "clear instructions" for dealing with sensitive facial skin," and leaves "no redness" while being "really easy" to use and "very effective." "The end result is the same or even better than waxing," insists one reader. Another adds, "It's been three weeks since I ... used it, and my hair still hasn't fully grown back, I am very impressed with this hair removal cream."
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TotalBeauty.com average member rating: 8.5*Why it's great: If you loathe getting waxed, then this hair removal product is for you. "[Waxing] is expensive, time-consuming and painful," says one reviewer. "This trimmer is easy to use, cheap and pain-free. I don't need to worry about replacement blades, and it has three trimming lengths. If you're on the fence about trimmers as hair removal products, give this one a try." Other reviewers love the razor's easy-to-grip handle. "The contours of the handle make it very easy and comfortable to use.... My legs have never been smoother," one reader writes.
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TotalBeauty.com average member rating: 8.6*Why it's great: Our readers say these hair removal strips make "at-home waxing easy," a perfect pick for beginners. "The wax strips are pre-coated with salon wax, so there's no spreading and no mess," making this kit one of the top-rated hair removal products. The kit also comes with azulene oil to soothe skin post-wax, an addition that readers say "helps remove any residue left on your skin."
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TotalBeauty.com average member rating: 8.6*Why it's great: Readers call this "a miracle product" because of its ability to prevent pesky and painful razor burn. One woman says, "It works like a charm! Since I started using this, I get zero red bumps after I shave -- and I have super sensitive skin. There is no irritation whatsoever.... It doesn't have the greatest smell, but it disappears quickly." Faithful users of this hair removal product advise applying it immediately after shaving for best results.
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No. 6: Pure Silk Moisturizing Shave Cream, $2.99
TotalBeauty.com average member rating: 8.8*Why it's great: This shaving cream is proof that drugstore gems exist. "I have ... a hard time paying for shaving products," says one reader. "This product, however, allows me to get a nice clean, close shave without breaking the bank." Fans say this bargain buy "protects against nicks, moisturizes, smells nice" and doesn't irritate skin.
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No. 5: Emjoi Light Caress Epilator, $89.95
TotalBeauty.com average member rating: 9.0*Why it's great: "I haven't raved about a hair removal product so enthusiastically in a long time," says one reviewer. Readers say that the relatively high price of this epilator is worth the investment when compared to other hair removal products. "I usually pay the same amount for just one waxing session," points out one reviewer. "This saves me money and time since I can tackle my legs, arms and underarms while sitting in front of the TV or on the phone," one reader explains. As for the pain factor? "Yes, it was quite painful the first time I used it," says a reviewer, "[But] I would use it little by little every day and soon it didn't hurt at all.... If you stick with it, you will eventually get used to it."
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No. 4: Schick Hydro Silk, $9.99
TotalBeauty.com average member rating: 9.0*Why it's great: Readers choose this hair removal product for its "close shave," "easy-to-grip" handle and efficient "moisturizing bar." "This is the ultimate [drugstore] razor," says one reviewer. "The five blades did the job of removing all of the hair on my legs, leaving them ultra, ultra smooth." Another fan writes, "Hydro Silk left me with hairless, soft ... legs for four days."
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No. 3: Aveeno Therapeutic Shave Gel, $4.20
TotalBeauty.com average member rating: 9.0*Why it's great: Readers can't get enough of this soothing shave gel. "It smells decadent and leaves my legs very soft," one writes. "True to Aveeno standards, my legs are never irritated or get razor bumps." Another agrees, "I have none of the [irritation from shaving that] I had before I used this hair removal product."
Agree? Disagree? Write your review for Aveeno Therapeutic Shave Gel here.
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No. 2: Kiss My Face 4-in-1 Moisture Shave, $4.99
TotalBeauty.com average member rating: 9.2*Why it's great: One reader explains, "Although it doesn't have the high-foam lather of can shaving creams, it's still creamy and [protects skin from irritation], especially if your skin is ... sensitive." "A little of this hair removal product goes a long way," says another reviewer. "And they mean it when they call it Moisture Shave. My legs felt smooth and soft [afterward]."
Agree? Disagree? Write your review for Kiss My Face 4-in-1 Moisture Shave here.
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No. 1: Silk'n Flash&Go Permanent Hair Removal Device, $199
TotalBeauty.com average member rating: 9.4*Why it's great: This device's long-lasting results make it our readers' favorite. "I honestly love this device. I wish I knew about it a long time ago," one reader says, before warning, "If you expect this to work overnight or within a few treatments, then you're dreaming. It takes dedication and persistence." The payoff? Underarms, bikini lines and legs free of ingrown hairs and painful red bumps -- and more free time. "Once you are done, you never have to book another wax appointment or shave again!" one reader raves.
Agree? Disagree? Write your review here.
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Older comments
My favorite razors now, with moisture strips, are Shick Hydro. I do also like Tend Skin and EOS shaving cream.
by GigiSD Saturday, April 20, 2013 at 01:10PM Report as inappropriate
I like the razors with moisture strips, no need to buy shaving cream, but they don't last very long
by DTalksAll Friday, April 12, 2013 at 12:52PM Report as inappropriate
I think I'll try some of these.
by Monique3 Friday, March 15, 2013 at 05:52AM Report as inappropriate
This is a great soap! I use it all the time. It did wounders for my dry and sensitive skin.
by Backinaction86 Monday, February 4, 2013 at 04:53AM Report as inappropriate
My favorite (EOS) is on this list! I'm also not surprised about the Aveeno products who made the list, since they make such great products.
by tallredamanda Friday, January 25, 2013 at 08:47PM Report as inappropriate
very helpful article! I'm going to try some of these. I'm always having problems with bumps and irritation after shaving.
by tulipsarebetter Friday, January 11, 2013 at 07:59AM Report as inappropriate
Borrowing your man's razor is definitely not smart; all it does is expose your body to germs and bacteria, no matter how clean he is. Gross. However many of these shaving creams and razors are awesome. Best one for the bikini area is the Noxema razors. I have not been able to find them in stores in years but they are the best EVER.
by Lamexicana1 Thursday, November 8, 2012 at 10:15PM Report as inappropriate
Right now I use the Gillette Venus Razor and EOS Shave Cream and I am pretty happy with both of them. The EOS shave cream can kind of clog the razor blades though sometimes.
by Chris213 Sunday, October 14, 2012 at 05:23PM Report as inappropriate
I think laser is sooooo much better .. i used to wax, shave and tweeze and i would see the hair grow back the next day but since ive been lasering i dont see any for months i love it
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For at least four years now, with increasing intensity and in an ever more complex pattern of development, we have been living in a profound crisis of capitalist over-production. The bourgeoisie itself judges this crisis to be greater in terms of depth and effects to that of 1929, which goaded the huge campaign of repression following the international defeat of the proletarian revolution (1922-1927) for the whole of the 'thirties, culminating in the second world bloodbath. The following brief crisis of 1974-'75 closed the cycle of post-war accumulation: "a golden age", as it is often described. Only a little later comes a period of capitalist overflow in its imperialist form, the most violent ever recorded worldwide – which also closes the "cycle of national revolutions" and is punctuated by increasingly serious and frequent economic and financial crises, right up to the present: 1980-'81; 1987-'91; 1997-'98, 2001-2003; 2007- 201?. Since that year (1975), thirty-six years of more and more difficult accumulation have transformed the whole of the world's economic and social scenario. The powerful capitalist dynamics that started in Great Britain halfway through the XVIIth century have now invaded every corner of the earth.
Some years ago, at the start of this crisis, when re-publishing articles printed in the party press in 1974 and 1975, entitled "Crisis and revolution" and "Once again on crisis and revolution", we wrote (issues 1 and 2/2008 of our Italian newspaper): "The task of revolutionaries is to make a correct analysis of how the economic crisis proceeds and deepens and to equip the party to work in the rank and file of the proletarian class, to guide and direct the social crisis, which will arise out of the economic crisis in a way that is neither automatic nor mechanical." An extremely important and decisive task for the fate of the future revolution.
In our introduction, we then stressed the lack of an automatic correlation between crises and revolution in economic-social processes and our renewed appeal not to give in, as the crisis develops, to the wave of idealistic ponderings that feed both the fatalist wait-and-see policy ("as it evolves, the crisis will lead to revolution") and impotent activism ("action alone will set off the train of revolution") – both of a mechanistic nature. The 1974-75 economic crisis (a historical crisis as we called it), which we predicted at the end of the '50s on the basis of a study of economic cycles, was examined several times by the party and in our General Meetings ("The course of world capitalism") emphasis was laid on the basic economic causes that caused it to surface so violently and simultaneously in the same form in all the world's leading capitalist countries – the same economic causes at the basis of the livelier dynamics between social classes at the end of the '60s and in the 70s.
What must be faced up to and clarified time and again are the dynamics that the proletariat is obliged to go through in the age of late capitalism: dynamics that do not occur in a straightforward and uniform fashion. Indeed, an extremely complex contradiction remains between the highly advanced degree of capitalism's economic development and the historical delay in the proletarian revolution. The relations between politics, class alignment and production forces are undoubtedly linked by functions of a superior nature. But the latter, as Marx and Engels stated and Lenin and Trotsky continued to repeat, have a real solution: the nature of capitalism bears within itself the revolutionary solution and the class war is capable of undoing the knots of complexity. What is decisive, in terms of knowledge, is how the process in its potential state positions itself and evolves within the dynamic system.
"The course of a country's development [this is Trotsky speaking], including its revolutionary development, can be dialectically interpreted only by the action, reaction and interaction of all the material factors involved and those related to the superstructure, both national and worldwide, and not by juxtapositions or formal analogies" (1)
This is how Trotsky indicates the path (historical-dialectic materialism) for research into the connection (action, reaction, interaction) of spatial (national and international) factors (relating to structure and superstructure) over the passage of time. The complexity, thus expressed, is the only one that deserves the name of scientific research into reality.
Building on Marxist science, we shall try to indicate, and not to "discover", the historical and material parameters that make it possible to release the delay in the revolution from the fog that seems to obscure it. In order to do this, it is first as well to put the political history of the ruling bourgeois class at the centre of the material stage, since it is of quite a different nature to that of the proletariat, or the oppressed class. Only after this (however dialectically connected the two histories are), is it possible to place the history of the proletariat, with its profound objective and subjective contradictions, under the microscope. We shall limit ourselves above all to some very general observations by Trotsky. As regards the former (the bourgeoisie), he explains things as follows:
"Even though the bourgeoisie is in complete antithesis to what historical development demands, it still remains the strongest class. Not only, but it can be stated that from a political point of view, the bourgeoisie reaches the height of its power, the greatest concentration of its strength and political and military resources, violence and provocation, i.e. the pinnacle of its class strategy, at the very moment when the threat of social collapse is hanging directly over it. War and its awful consequences […] have revealed to the bourgeoisie the imminent danger of ruin. This is what has sharpened its instinct for conservation to the utmost. The greater the danger, the more keenly the class, like the individual, optimizes its vital energy for the fight for conservation. Moreover, we must not forget [and this is the great privilege of the ruling class – ed.] that the bourgeoisie has found itself in danger of extinction after having acquired an enormous amount of political experience. The bourgeoisie has created and destroyed forms of government of all types: it has developed under pure absolutism, under constitutional monarchy, under parliamentary monarchy, under the democratic republic, under Bonaparte's dictatorship, in the State allied with the Catholic church, in the State persecuting the church, etc.; all this wealth of manifold experience that has penetrated into the blood and flesh of the bourgeoisie's ruling caste, has now been summoned up by it to hold on at all costs to its position of power. And it moves with increasing inventiveness, sophistication, lack of scruples, the more its leaders recognize the danger threatening them" (2).
We should add to all this the experience of the services rendered to bourgeois domination by international socialdemocracy, born directly from working class reality (mainly at the time of the IInd International but already an embryo within the 1st International), and, successively, the direct and brutal dictatorship of the bourgeoisie in the guise of fascism and nazism and the other liberal as well as democratic forms that saw the bourgeois State take to the battlefield openly against the proletariat in the two world wars. And again, the ultimate function of Stalinism, the monster that emerged from the waters of a IIIrd International totally at sea, cancelling and dispersing after 1926 the entire heritage and hopes of a revolutionary future on a worldwide scale. Upturning the sense of these experiences and appropriating them, our party has called them Lessons of counter-revolution, sparing nothing that might be of use for our future revolution according to the teachings of Marx who, from the first lines of The Class War in France from 1848 to 1850, writes: "In a word, revolutionary progress does not advance through its immediate, tragi-comical conquests but, on the contrary, by giving rise to a fierce and powerful counter-revolution, bringing to life an adversary, and only by fighting the latter does the party of rebellion reach the maturity of a true revolutionary party".
A tangle of contradictions, resistances, clashes, objective inertia prevents the economic crisis, even in its most explosive form, from colliding directly and immediately with the subjective factors that promote, fuel and guide the historical leap, transforming them into factors which, on the contrary, delay, disperse and dampen the revolutionary crisis, whilst still being the conditions of economic development more than mature due to the running short of the drive to accumulate of the capitalist mode of production. The power of the experience accumulated by the bourgeoisie is described in the various different countries, once again by Trotsky, emphasizing the intrinsic causes of the delay that weigh upon the class.
In Great Britain it is the experience of "world piracy", "the privileged position ensured not only for its bourgeoisie but also for a fraction of the working class", "the reservoir of counter-revolutionary resources inherited by British capitalism from a long parliamentary tradition and from the art of juggling with the more refined means of corruption, both material and ideological, of the oppressed classes"; in France, "a ruling class that on the one hand seduces the masses, including the workers, with a dramatic display of anti-dynastic, anti-clerical, republican, radical, masonic etc. tendencies, and on the other exploits the advantages it gains from its birthright and its position as world money-lender to slow down the development of new and revolutionary forms of industrialism"; in Germany, "a country that benefits from the possession of ultramodern technology and from a 'science' of organization and combination unknown to the firstborn of the industrial revolution – and the no less giddy growth of an organized workers' movement and the standard of living of the masses, until social democracy is transformed into the 'live embodiment of organizational fetishism' at the service and in the interests of the capitalist counter-revolution". (3)
Trotsky's conclusion has the weight of a law of physics: "The more powerful a country is, from the capitalist point of view – and given equal conditions – , the greater the inertia of 'peaceful' class relations, the greater is the impulse required to wrench the two hostile classes – proletariat and bourgeoisie – from their relatively balanced condition and transform the class war into open civil warfare. Once it has flared up, civil war, given equal conditions, will be more bitter and angrier, the higher the level of capitalist development attained by a given country; the stronger and more organized are the enemies, the greater is the volume of material and ideological resources that both can draw upon." (4)
The relationship between the economic crisis and the dynamics of the proletariat thus responds to phenomena of a primarily objective and economic nature. But in society the proletariat also has a political function (the "tendency towards its dictatorship" over capitalist society as a transition to a classless society – which is Marx's true discovery – is of an objective nature): the economic relationship of dependence, which binds the proletariat to capital, and thus to the crisis, depends not only on its numbers but also on the form of organization it has assumed for itself in different historical situations (union and political organizations of widely varying natures: reactionary, reformist or revolutionary), emerging at times as resistance, at others as the simple impulse to wage immediate battle or, more rarely, as an attack on the bourgeoisie under the guidance of a special organ: the class party. In this sense the objective tendency reveals itself as organization and subjective awareness. The crisis encourages the revelation of structural and superstructural incrustations, social pressure but also challenges, a programme of struggle, intrinsic aims. Thus no economicist "automatism and mechanicism" could predetermine the transformations that the proletariat undergoes over time, and thence its revolutionary action.
Only those who, once again, "use pure formalism to connect the economic situation to the political" could believe this, forgetting that for Marx if "the working class has a winning element, numbers," (and the very pattern of capitalism's development unceasingly increases this number), on the other hand "numbers only make their weight felt when they are united by organization and guided by knowledge"; and the former (organization), from a strictly economic point of view, is constantly undermined by competition between proletarians, whilst the latter (knowledge, possessed by the party alone and imported by it, as an avant-garde action in the class struggle), even when and where has been acquired, is in constant danger of destruction by the enormous weight of the dominant ideology's historical inertia, with profound and lasting effects which make, or risk making, the organization itself not an engine but an inhibiting element.
Numbers, organization and awareness define a social class, the proletariat, looking towards its own dictatorship. Yet the number of proletarians, whilst growing (its active and potential critical mass is in all events decisive in the course of the struggle), cannot be effective without organization, which is undermined by competition (thus by the fight going on within the proletarian camp itself) – a type of organization that is never unitary, since it follows the processes (never uniform or linear) of economic development, thus varying in time and space, that the proletariat has gone through (precariousness, flexibility, concentration, dispersion throughout the territory). Lastly, the awareness of their own historical condition, which only a small number of proletarians manage to acquire: on the one hand, there are the class avant-gardes, those arising on the battlefield (immediate and spontaneous) of economic defence and those that instead go further towards organized forms and union structures, and on the other, those who dialectically organize into forms that are already political, the embryos or nuclei of class power (the soviets, for example).
The political form is something quite different – the origin and function of the party that presents itself as an organ and guide for the proletarian class. In the relationship between party and class, in the function that the party performs both in the primitive forms of defensive struggle and in the more politically advanced ones (the class avant-gardes), the party's success as a guide is measured by demonstrating that it does not "make" the revolution, but guides it. These weights and measures (the working class population, economic and political organization), whilst deriving from the production process, thus intervene when the crisis explodes: time lags, unexpected outbreaks (revolts), long depressions and sudden accelerations, paralysing corporatism and local outbreaks of class struggle alternate and overlap with no periodization.
Those who believe in a mechanical and automatic relationship between crisis and revolution do forget that Marx and Engels had already recorded the phenomenon of a "working-class aristocracy", arising out of the body of profits from commercial and colonial expansion and the flux of young, potentially virgin recruits from the proletariat into trade unions that had by then fallen into the clutches of "bourgeois lieutenants from the rank and file of the working class" marching under the banner of the three-headed siren "liberté, égalité, fraternité"; that the factory is at one and the same time the school of discipline (Lenin) and the penal colony (Marx) of wage-earners; and that objective factors alone – unemployment, an insecure existence, poverty, periodical downward slides into the lower ranks of the industrial reserve army, the recurring phantom of war, etc. – that drive, and will without doubt once again drive, the masses into the arena of decisive social clashes, not infrequently have a discomforting and demoralizing effect, propelling towards open or veiled strike-breaking.
Thus, we insisted in those 1974 and 1975 articles, re-published in 2008, there exists no automatic mechanism that propels the proletariat towards revolution in a situation of crisis, even the deepest, because not only within the party, but also within the class itself, over time a powerful system of conservation forms. When talking of working-class aristocracy we are not looking at a particular, contingent aspect that arises and then disappears according to the historical situation. Just as the extent to which bourgeois ideology has penetrated society can transform the revolutionary party into a party of social reform and thus a reactionary party (a totally irreversible pattern), in the same way the counter-revolutionary structure we call working-class aristocracy (arising from the fact that the class is also a class for capital, functional to capital), once it has formed (Marx and Engels called it the "bourgeois party"), never goes away again. The bourgeois system's state of conservation is fuelled and feeds almost exclusively on all the elements that have had and continue to have a parasitical existence inside the working class. Every sort of "workerism" (an ideology belonging to the working-class aristocracy) exalts, with the factory, the corporative emancipation of the proletariat, its professional status, its technical conscience and political self-awareness and not the school of discipline and mortal struggle against the class enemy, not the penal colony.
And again. This mechanical and automatic pattern can only be conceived of arrogantly by those who today forget (and there are legions of them!) that a century and more of bloody defeats, absurd haemorrhages, nameless holocausts following battles, that may also have been glorious, weighs upon the world's working class and that, most importantly, there have too often and at key moments been breaks – whose accomplices or direct perpetrators come directly from the working-class movement – in the one connection that can alone stably combine "organization" and "consciousness", placing one at the service of the other and both at that of the preparation of the revolution, first, and then of the "upturning of praxis" in the revolution: that is, the Party.
If, as we communists have always argued, consciousness comes from the party, the organ of the class and not simply a part of it, this theoretical basis (consciousness) is always in a critical condition inside the party. It (consciousness) is in constant danger even when and where it has been acquired. Who is responsible for this? It is the immense weight of historical inertia that the dominant ideology carries in itself through its strong reflections, that transform political organization (programme, tactics, strategy) into a factor for conservation. The organ through which the proletariat becomes a class and not simply numbers and pure organizational form, is attacked from within, so that its task is not respected but slowed down, hindered. The economic crisis regenerates party dynamics at the same time as the degree of conservation increases, transforming its condition. Dialectic materialism always reminds us that the only absolute is movement: the content and form of the party at the height of the crisis experience changes in one sense and serious counter-attacks in another. The party has to maintain the relationship with the class, its revolutionary function, its work, it has to carry out its militant function. The two errors of activism and wait-and-see, which are in fact reflections of the bourgeois ideology, come into play at this point, when collective operational capacity, firm reactions, tactical and organizational realism are called for, and at the same time it is feared that the theoretical basis, principles and objectives may be lost and above all that the reawakening of localism may affect the individual combat units, the party sections. From this arises an increasing need for the centralization (not only from a formal point of view) and organic integration of forces, best sustained by the collective capacities acquired over time.
The direct accomplices or executors of this reactionary situation, which acts as a strong brake on the class, are those that have filtered in from the bourgeoisie, passing through the workers' movement, within the party. They are those who should be establishing – as we wrote above – the only connection that can stably unite "organization" and "consciousness", placing one at the service of the other and both at the preparation of the revolution, first, and then of the "upturning of practice" in the revolution: that is, the Party. This function of theirs has been known ever since it first emerged and Lenin made a scientific study of their presence in the party, denying them freedom of criticism from the very beginning. What is Lenin's intention? He speaks of a basic instability that arises out of their social background. This is why he argues in What Is To Be Done? and in many other texts that the party can only be founded exclusively on theoretical clarity and clarity of programme, tactics and organization; that "freedom of criticism" means eclecticism, lack of firm principles, indeterminate objectives and tactics: it means disorganization, the resort to expedients in tactics, anarchy. Ever since 1921 our party has understood the significance of this danger, this "necessary and inevitable" presence, because the class party arises on the terrain of bourgeois society but its programme, its objectives do not; they come from the class struggle. It is not a direct emanation of the people or of a part of it, the workers, nor of bourgeois forms of organization (popular democracy, social democracy, working-class democracy): its sources and its strength reside in a historical class, the proletariat, which only appears in all its revolutionary determination for brief periods of time. The party's vital nucleus is not the form of organization in itself but the historical programme of this class. The ground into which Marxism sinks its roots in the mid XIXth century, explains Lenin, is the immense field covering the tradition of economic history, politics and human philosophy, and not that of liberalism or labourism. The change of name from "social-democratic" to "communist" demonstrates that a historical leap forward took place with the October Revolution, because ties were cut with liberal-democratic, even radical, workerist origins, reconnecting instead to the origins of the Manifesto of the Communist Party. Our organic centralism, which underlies our organization, is the solution that Lenin and the class movement were looking for, because it does away once and for all with a bourgeois type of internal organization, i.e. a democratic one. On this basis, those who enter the party are not free to create new theories, tactics, strategies, forms of organization.
Thus there are many conservative and reactionary dynamics at work, all the greater in an age of social parasitism, in the final phase of the capitalist mode of production. In an extreme need to sum up the real condition in which we found ourselves after 1926, the 1975-1976 articles conclude that the proletariat is overcome by a profound "crisis of direction", which imposes the "construction" of the party. It was not just a question of losing a form of organization, but of losing track of revolutionary theory: "we must have the courage to state that, however great and deep-rooted is the crisis of the capitalist world, it is not as great as the crisis of the direction of the proletarian movement: this does not just affect 'the main part' but the vast majority. […] Either we realize that this means using these bricks to build the fundamental, subjective condition for the revolution – the party – building it and defending it throughout all its conditions of existence, or else we have already surrendered before a crisis that will come, as so many others have, and pass rough-shod over the battered body of the working class and its militant avant-garde, as too many have already."
Today, thirty-six years on, we must add that there is something even deeper that hinders the "construction" of the fundamental, subjective condition for the revolution – the party: something that dates back to the defeat experienced due to Stalinism. It incorporates within itself all the counter-revolutions: social-democratic reform, production fetishes, social nationalism. The theoretical reconstruction of our party from 1952 onwards took place on the basis of the lessons of counter-revolution: the militants that preceded us passed on, as though through a mother's milk, not only the teachings of the past but also the horror of what happened; they also handed down to us in their narrations, the sense of loss, loneliness and waiting for rebirth. And on this extraordinary basis what was never lacking was the vital command not to give up before this gigantic task.
It should not seem strange that the formal "political disappearance" of that monster called Stalinism did not "free" the proletariat, that its "setting aside" was not the result of a struggle that turned into critical revolutionary awareness, that the "confession" (i. e., that was being "built" in Russia was capitalism, and not socialism) did not take place on our own territory but on that of the enemy: democratic anti-Stalinism, the worst legacy of Stalinism. The bourgeoisie's immense "field of (anti-proletarian) experience" cannot be overturned by ideologies, the spirits of revenge, various sorts of voluntary commitment or by the intervention of historical nemesis. However rich in experiences they were for the proletariat, the final rounds of the three Internationals were essentially part and parcel of the bourgeois camp. And it could hardly be otherwise: the dominant culture is always, in every age, the culture of the ruling class. The revolutionary class war of the future will come about under explosive objective conditions during which the proletariat and the bourgeoisie will be obliged to fight a mortal battle. At these key points (crises of over-production and the approach towards a new world conflict), the bourgeoisie's desire for power, conservation and reaction and the revolutionary drive of the proletariat will present history with their final accounts. If we defined the "cycle of national bourgeois revolutions" closed in the mid-'70s and the "cycle of the final crisis" open, it should be remembered that the capitalist mode of production did not overflow throughout the entire planet until three decades ago. The proletariat has accompanied the development of the bourgeoisie, shared its genesis attempting to outstrip it, resisted, opposing it, during its reformist and dictatorial transformation and undergone terrible and open aggression in its imperialist phase, precisely during the course of its first dictatorship.
Today, in a situation of prevailing counter-revolution, in the absence of real defensive battles (not to speak, for the moment, of attack), in a situation in which the space for struggle still reveals a vacuum of combative proletarian avant-gardes between the party in its embryonic state and the class, it would seem that the only prospect is still resistance whilst waiting. Nevertheless we must be sure to remember that the greatest expressions of proletarian vitality and struggle were to be seen in periods of deep economic-social or wartime crises: 1848-1850; 1870-1871; 1905; 1915-1918. Revolutionary communists are bound to an aggressive attitude towards bourgeois society on the basis of the theory, programme, organization and tactical plan that history has handed down to us: no voluntary cooperation, no fatalist wait-and-see attitude, no automatic passage from crisis to revolution, no sectarianism, but revolutionary realism, learning the art of insurrection from the pages of class history and on the battlefield. Only confidence in the future, only the will to fight will make it possible to pass through and outstrip capitalist hell, when the conflict reopens in its most violent form. Communists will not give in and will prevent other tragedies from once again striking the body of their own class. They must return to their origins, even to the time when they fought in their bourgeois revolutions, attempting to exploit the revolutionary situation to wrench victory from the hands of the bourgeoisie and bring it under their own control (the permanent revolution, as Marx defined it).
Well before the October Revolution, in 1912 young Italian revolutionaries wrote: "Conviction is the daughter of enthusiasm and sentiment and there is something that keeps this sentiment alight: the instinctive solidarity of the exploited. Those who no longer have faith in this and wish to replace it with theoretical rote learning, study, the awareness of practical problems, are […] sadly distant from communism" (5). On the basis of this enthusiasm and this sentiment, on the basis of class solidarity, under the guidance of a party that has merited the name of class party, the conviction will become so strong that nothing will be able to stop us from wrenching the future of the human race from the criminal hands of the bourgeoisie.
(1) Here and in the footnotes that follow, we quote from Italian or German translations, not having been able to find English translations. L. Trotsky, "In viaggio. Pensieri sulla marcia della rivoluzione", April 29-May 1, 1919.
(2) L. Trotsky, Die Neue Etappe, Hamburg 1921.
(3) L. Trotsky, "In viaggio", quoted.
(4) L. Trotsky, "In viaggio", quoted.
(5) The text can be found in our Storia della Sinistra Comunista. Vol. I: 1912-1919, Edizioni Il programma comunista, 1992, p.182.
International Communist Party
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Jack witnesses Emily and Ben Kissing.
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Victoria reveals the truth about Daniel's death to Margaux.
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Jack takes Malcolm Black's fate into his own hands.
Before passing out. Margaux vows to uncover the truth.
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Emily remembers Daniel in her own way.
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Victoria reacts to Daniel's death.
Emily gets a new roommate.
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Victoria admits that she framed David.
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Victoria puts Agent Kate Taylor in her place.
Emily begs David not to seek revenge alone.
"If she's corrupt I want to know. If she's not, I want an apology."
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Margaux drops a bombshell on Daniel.
Daniel has a one-way conversation with Emily at the bar.
Agent Kate Taylor gets Jack on the bed.
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Louise finds out that Nolan used her to clear his name.
Officer Ben pays Emily a late night house call.
Daniel assures Victoria that David will eventually choose Emily.
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Victoria puts a stop to David and Emily's chat.
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David explains why he can't be a father to Emily.
Emily is not in a hurry to save Victoria's life.
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Emily demands answers from David.
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Daniel and Emily share a fleeting moment of tenderness.
Margaux throws a drink in Daniel's lying face.
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David swears to Amanda that he will have revenge.
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Emily reacts to coming face-to-face with her father.
Jack is irritated by Ben's sudden interest in Emily.
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Emily watches from the crowd as David is released to Victoria & Charlotte.
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The Evo 2013 shoot this year takes places in New Caledonia, home of our teamrider Tom Hebert.
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2-616 The College News VOL. XXVIII, No. 9 BRYN MAWR and WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1941 *%?�?$& T?u.etee. of"1 PRICE 10 CENTS Bryn Mawr Joins \Mass Meeting Inaugurates The Alliance; � Elects Executive Board; Outlines Plans National Civilian Defense Efforts Air-Raid and Fire-Fighting t Units Are Immediate Problem National Defense is organized, by counties under the State De- fense Councils. At the request of the Montgomery County unit, Miss Park has appointed a committee for the College, which cooperates with the Civilian Volunteer Office of Philadelphia, as well as with the National defense organization and with the separate Lower Merion Township Council. The i ost immediate problem is the or- ganization of air-raid and fire- lighting units. Not originally connected with the other organizations, the Lower Merion Township Defense Council is now trying to coordinate itself with the County Council. Ap- pointed by the Township Commis- sioners last summer, it has sent out questionnaires and established a file of people trained or inter- ested in defense work. This coun- cil, whose chairman is Mr. Walter C. Neely, and whose Executive Director is Dr. Howard Wayne Smith, of Ardmore, states its pose: "To maintain civilian morale during the present Students to Discuss Unrestricted Press Mira Eitington, Polly Graham and Nancy Chase will speak at the i second student Forum on Novem- ber 27. Government press releases and pamphlets and wartime press restrictions in the U. S. A., Eng- land and France are the chief top- ics for consideration. The Forum hopes to stimulate discussion as to the advantages of an unrestricted press. Bryn Mawr Chapter Of Sigma Xi Society Will be Established Alliance Elections The following were elected to serve on the Executive Board of The Alliance: Secretary, Catherine Clement, '43. Defense Courses, Betty Nicrosi, '4% Forum, Rosalind Wright, '44. Research and Writing, Nancy Elli- cott, '42. Ex Offi.cio members will be: Vivi Kyench, '42, Joan Gross, '42. Mary Gumbart, '42, was ap- pointed Chairman Pro-Tern by the President of the Undergraduate Association. rthi uncertainties; to plan measures for dealing with such sudden emer- gencies or crises as may arise in the Township; to cooperate with t Federal, State and County Coun- Oontlnued on Pace Five Dance The Undergraduate Asso- ciation dance for all college students will be held in the gym from eleven to two fol- lowing the performance of Stage Door, December 6. Tickets are $2.00 for couples, $1 for stags. The lecture by Professor Karl Spencer Lashley, research profes- sor of neuro psychology at Harv- ard University on the Physiology of Memory will culminate the cere- monies connected with the instal- lation of a Sigma Xi Chapter at Bryn Mawr. Dr. Lashley is recog- iu>wk as aiic of the most eminent of^iaisca/ch\yorkcrs both in the eld of bioloay and that of psy- P"/111 chology, as fvell as a popular speaker. The SigW Xi Society is a na- tional organization for graduates with^Hle purpose of encouraging scientific research. The effect of the installation of a Bryn Mawr Chapter will be to give more perma- nent form to the informal meetings of faculty and graduate students already being held irregularly. The intention of these meetings is to provide the opportunity for detailed discussion concerning the research work being carried on at Bryn Mawr. Such meetings will be a feature of the new Sigma Xi chap- ter. The installation ceremonies Sat- Oortlni'ed on Page Four One-Act Plays Show Talent in East, West And Rhoads Freshmen E. Cheney, Ex-Ed, Assists "Mirror's" Editors, And Denies Walter Winchell's Libelous Tale By Jacquie II.ill.ml, '43 "Tex MacCrary's new Girl Fri- day is Emily Cheney, ex-Neivs copy girl and silk heiress." So wrote Walter Winchell of Bryn Mawr's 1940 graduate and former editor of the College News. This caused havoc with Cheney's office life. She spent a week denying any claims to future silk. Previously a copy girl on the Daily News, Cheney has graduated to the editorial office of the Daily Mirror, where she files and types and makes up the page. "I am officially classed as a secretary, al- though I don't know the first thing about shorthand." This shorthand deficiency is a good thing. "Don't let 'em catch you with it,", she advises. Her unusual career as copy girl provoked write-ups in Time and Newsweek, and a story in the Oc- tober Ladies' Home Journal. She says that she herself tried to write an article about her unique posi- tion, but it was rather an unsuc- cessful attempt. Although a genuine New Yorker, Cheney is still very near to Bryn Mawr life, since she is now living with Cooey Emery and Sarah Meigs, all of the class of 1940. Cheney is cracking our journalistic ice, together with her classmate, 'Barbara Auchincloss. In fact, feminists may chalk one up on tough City Eds from coast to coast. The two most desperate moments of Cheney's job occurred in the same day. She dropped a wax d'etaphone cylinder on a busy street corner and a head which she had supposedly corrected appeared in incorrect form in the paper. No doubt, Cheney was the source, of inspiration for the Journal, story, "Copy Girl." She insists onj this. She knew the author, Jack! lams, when she was on the News, j and that ought to settle any juris- dictional disputes with Barbara Cooley. Cheney grants, however, j that Cooley is one up, because the McCain of the story is the actual name of a rewrite man with whom Cooley worked on Albany's Knick- erbocker News. "The locale and detail of the story are pretty j I straight from the Daily News office, I I but actually they could be the set-] I ting from any newspaper," she, ' said. Cheney's present aspiration is to : have a series of articles about ci-i vilian defense published in The\ j Mirror. She thinks she has a much better chance of advancement in : her new job. "About once a week ! I'm kicked out of the editorial of- j fice so the men can tell dirty sto- ries," says Cheney. By Alice Iscman, '43 The Freshman Play contest got under way Friday night with Pem- broke West, East, and Rhoads pre senting their offerings in the Thea- tre Workshop. The Man in the Bowler Hut, offered by Pembroke West, gave no opportunity for important charac- terizations. The cast, however, performed its limited function rather successfully. Harriet Sha- piro was amusing as John, al- though in places she overplayed the part. Francois* Pleven made a dashing hero, and $Iary Virginia More, a horrendous villain. Other members of the cast were entirely adequate. The performance as a whole might have been more pol- ished, the cues picked up faster, and the action smoother. But con- sidering the fact that rehearsals were limited to weekends, and that this was, for many, a first attempt at acting, the result was good. Pembroke East's undertaking, Shaw's Inca of Perusalem was far more ambitious. Judith Derby as Ermentrude, the millionairess-la- dy's maid, was excellent. Her stage manner was finished and she handled Shavian epigrams with professional finesse. Ann Bird Woods, as the doltish princess, served as a very good foil, and Wynn Glanker, the Inca, handled a long and, at times, tedious part as well as she could. Minor characters, the archdeacon, the waiter, and the hotel manager, were uniformly good. Pembroke Kast, on the whole, showed much talent. If the action Continued on Page Six Menken Pictures Show Growth Of Powers in Pacific Program Emphasizes p� . . .. a t wwr Japan Ihreatens Indies, Social Aims of War Singapore, With Navy Goodhart Auditorium, Tuesday, November ~'~>tlr.� The Alliance, a new student organization formed to coordinate Defense problems and works on contemporary ques- And Planes GoOdhart Auditorium, Moiviaij, IB November ~'i:� Arthur Menken, Paramount News and March of Time photographer, presented the tions, was inaugurated at a college highlights of his eight-month, 35 Mass Meeting tonight by Vivi French, '42, President of the Un- dergraduate Association. The meeting was � then turned over to Mary Gumbart, '42, appointed Chairman pro-tem. The Alliance is based on a belief that the defeat of Hitler, though vital, should not overshadow the considerations of long term effects of legislation and government ac- tivity during the emergency. They read as follows: 1) To win the war is essential. 2) We believe that the mobiliza- tion of national effort should be directed not only towartl maintaining our democracy but also toward broader and enduring social benefits. .'!) We will support all measures necessary to efficient prosecu- tion of the war, providing that they do not conflict in spirit with principal No. 2. Students and faculty will coop- erate on a Peace Aims Forum soon. Hall meetings will be held next week, at which all students who are in sympathy with the Al- liance principles can enroll for work under the various commit- tees. Plans arc being made to be- gin work in the Bryn Mawr com- munity, possibly through adult ed- ucation groups in the village, and for the formation of a writing com- mittee which will publicize stu- dents' opinion, through letters to newspapers and to Congressmen. thousand-mile tour of the Pacific. "The thing that is remarkable about these pictures is that I got them out at all," said Mr. Menken, who was determined to survey the situation in New Zealand, Aus- tralia, the Netherlands Indies, China, Japan, and the American possessions, and to discover the strength of our friends and of our potential enemy. The movie was presented chron- ologically, by countries; but throughout Mr. Menken placed his emphasis upon the technical devel- opment and the war preparations of each power. New Zealand, he saw as strong in national feeling� "she is all in the war and she knows it"�but weak in manpower. The population is small; and al- though both colonists and natives are being diverted from agricul- ture and trained in flying and air- craft mechanics, the reserve is limited. Australia, however, is turning out actual war material and "her greatest export is men." Veterans of Tobruk rub shoulders with men who will soon be sent to Singapore, "Austalia's first line of defense." The Netherlands Indies show even more actual war preparation. It is nearer to Japan, and valuable to her for the oil, rice, and rubber. Holland however plans a foot-by- foot resistance�pillboxes and tank traps line the roads, and the oil- wells are mined in case they must be abandoned. There is a skilled air-fleet, a rising army in which natives are trained beside colonists, a navy apparently strong, and a ship-repair shop which appears to be excellently equipped. Continued on I'ace Six Calendar Thursday, November 27 Forum, Common Room, 7:30. Group Leadership Meet- ing, 7:30. Friday, November 28 Freshman Plays, Theatre Workshop, 8:30. Saturday, November 29 Dr. Karl S. Lashley, The Physiology of M e mo r \j, Goodhart, 8:30. Hall Dance, Denbigh. Sunday, November 30 Chapel. The Reverend Donald B. Aldrich, Music Room, 7:30. Monday, December 1 Vocational Conference, Mrs. Percy C. Madeira, Goodhart, 7:30. Tuesday, December 2 Current Events, Common Room, 7:30. Cooley Takes the Bumps in Epic Tank Ride; Experience With Defense Shatters Victim By Barbara Cooley, '42 "How fast are we going?" I yelled when I'd caught my breath. This business of getting the inside story on National Defense from the machine-crowded interior of a tank had already jounced me for fifteen gasping minutes. I asked again af- ter he'd shifted to a quieter gear� "About twenty-five. Thirty miles an hour is the fastest they go." I settled back and hit the rubber- padded ceiling a couple of times. But maybe we'd crash through buildings the way they do in the movies, I thought. "Don't you ever knock down things?" I asked. "Nope. But one day I got sleepy," Johnny pointed out a raw gash in nearby woods where four or five trees had been snapped off at the base. This was the testing field outside Schenectady, N. Y., for M3 tanks produced by the American Locomo- tive Company. I craned my neck and through the mud-slopped wind- shield, saw we were passing the shack office. He wasn't going to ask me if I'd had enough. "Still like it?" he asked fasten- ing a strap over my lap, so I'd only hit the ceiling on the big bumps. "Is it fun to drive these things?" I roared. He plowed through a mire and yelled, "Monotonous as hell." There was the shack again. I jabbed Johnny and we ground to a stop�a few more minutes to get the facts. "After it's assembled, we drive each tank 65 miles before it's sent off to the army," he ex- plained. "How many men ride in these tanks?" I asked squeezing through the narrow space between turret and driver's seat. "Seven," he said. "One as lookout in the re- volving turret, a driver, radio man, and men to operate the eanifon, the 75 millimeter guns and the anti- aircraft guns." I looked around .the tiny machine-filled interior and I mentally stretched cramped legs. Johnny climbed out through the � trapdoor in the roof and reached down an assisting hand. "Havo you ever taken a girl before?" I ' asked, hiking my overalls closer to my shattered and grimy body. "A dozen, I guess," he said, pull- ing me onto the roof. "Thanks a lot for the ride," I murmured meekly.
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Fluid Memory for Particles in 2D Brownian Motion
S. Wolf, and J. CzerwinskaARTORG Center
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Thermal fluctuations of microparticles are an important way of transport in biological cells. While the fluid properties, such as viscosity, cannot always be directly measured, the random path of a microparticle can be observed under microscope. The relation between the diffusion and the fluid viscosity is analytically well described for spherical particles.
Therefore, we have simulated and compared the effects of the shape (circle and triangle) on the flow induced by Brownian motion. We have setup a model that simulates the fluid dynamic around a particle. While the random walk of a particle has no memory, the induced vortices persist for a certain time. Hence, they can be used to measure the dissipation of information.


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Cut-Retardant Gloves
Get a grip on your chainsaw with STIHL Cut-Retardant Mitts. Made with water-resistant nylon backs and goatskin palms, these mitts offer exceptional comfort and grip without sacrificing dexterity. Avertic™ Pro by Engtex®, a cut-retardant material, is sewn into the back of the left glove. These mitt-style gloves also feature a separate index finger for chainsaw throttle operation, while hook and loop wrist straps make fitting a breeze. These chainsaw protective gloves are an excellent choice for the professional logger. STIHL chainsaw protective apparel is also wash and wear, unlike some other brands that require dry cleaning or light surface cleaning.
Available color: High Visibility Orange
Available sizes: S (8), M (9), L (10), XL (11)
STIHL® Forestry Helmet System
The woods can hold many dangers. Stay one step ahead with the Forestry Helmet System from STIHL. The protection starts with a hard shell of ABS thermoplastic. It gets even better with a six-point, ratchet-style suspension system that absorbs shock and keeps the helmet stable while you work.
The system also features a Cool Guard sweatband to keep perspiration out of your eyes, as well as a built-in rain gutter to direct rain away from your face during inclement weather. Adjustable hearing protectors comfortably reduce noise while an epoxy-coated steel full-face screen helps protect from flying debris.
Hard hat meets ANSI Z89.1-2003 Type 1 Class G. Hearing protectors meet ANSI S3.19-1974 and have a Noise Reduction Rating (NRR) of 24 dB(A).


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Office of Continuing and Distance Education
Lincoln Building
120 North Lincoln Street
Kent State University
PO Box 5190
Kent, OH 44242-0001
Tel: 330-672-3100
Fax: 330-672-2079
Office of Continuing and Distance Education Directory
Evening & Weekend Programs
Graduate degrees that are generally available by attending only evening classes include:
Graduate School of Management Master of Business Administration Master of Science in Accounting (330) 672-2282
Graduate College of Education Master of Education (330) 672-2202Dept. of Computer Science Master of Science in Computer Science (330) 672-2681
Library and Information Science Master of Library and Information Science (330) 672-2782
Liberal Studies Program Master of Liberal Studies (330) 672-2681
School of Lifespan Development & Educational Sciences
Master of Human Development and Family Studies
(330) 672-2294
There are never enough hours in the day, so use your evenings to finish a degree or start a new one. You can complete a bachelor's degree in one of eleven majors through classes we offer exclusively at the Kent Campus during evening hours or on weekends.
If you're a returning adult student or are interested in undergraduate evening degree programs, click on the appropriate academic discipline below. You can also contact the Center for Adult & Veteran Services at (330) 672-7933 for day or evening pre-admission counseling, academic advising and career guidance. If your employer offers tuition reimbursement, ask about our Adult Services Tuition Deferment Plan. Counseling sessions are available by appointment. For online Web courses, visit http://www.kent.edu/cavs/index.cfm.
Follow the links below for details on these programs: