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Vegetarians have wicked, shifty eyes and laugh in a cold, calculating manner. They pinch little children, steal stamps, drink water, favor beards.J.B. MORTON
If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friendsCharlotte Bronte Jane Eyre
A wicked conscience mouldeth goblins swift as frenzy thoughts.William Shakespeare
And, O! there lives within my heart A hope long nursed by me, (And should its cheering ray depart How dark my soul would be) That as in Adam all have died In Christ shall all men live And ever round his throne abide Eternal praise to give; That even the wicked shall at last Be fitted for the skies And when their dreadful doom is past To life and light arise.Anne Bront
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.Oscar Wilde
Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.Aristotle
There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear; and there is damnation in the things that wicked men love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what winds are to oceans and malarial regions, which waft away the elements of disease, and bring new elements of health. And where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.Henry Ward Beecher
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the water they loved to drink. This good man, Noah, having seen that all his contemporaries had perished by this unpleasant drink, took a dislike to it; and G-d, to relieve his dryness, created the vine and revealed to him the art of making wine. By the aid of this liquid, he revealed more and more truth.Benjamin Franklin
Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy.G.K. Chesterton
Wicked men obey out of fear; good men, out of love.Aristotle
Some of the critics viewed Vietnam as a morality play in which the wicked must be punished before the final curtain and where any attempt to salvage self-respect from the outcome compounded the wrong. I viewed it as a genuine tragedy. No one had a monopoly on anguish.Ronald Reagan
Multitudes of people, drifting aimlessly to and fro without a set purpose, deny themselves such fulfillment of their capacities, and the satisfying happiness which attends it. They are not wicked, they are only shallow. They are not mean or vicious; they simply are empty -- shake them and they would rattle like gourds. They lack range, depth, and conviction. Without purpose their lives ultimately wander into the morass of dissatisfaction. As we harness our abilities to a steady purpose and undertake the long pull toward its accomplishment, rich compensations reward us. A sense of purpose simplifies life and therefore concentrates our abilities; and concentration adds power.Kenneth Hildebrand
Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.Marquis De Vauvenargues
Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interwar period, appeasement of Fascism.Barbara Tuchman
Blessings are upon the head of the just: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.Bible
To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.Mohamed Abdel Moneim Fayed
An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.Aristophanes
Heaven, to keep its beauty, cast them out, but even Hell itself would not receive them for fear the wicked there might glory over them.Durante degli Alighieri
The philosophers who wished us to have the gods for our friends rank the friendship of the holy angels in the fourth circle of society, advancing now from the three circles of society on earth to the universe, and embracing heaven itself. And in this friendship we have indeed no fear that the angels will grieve us by their death or deterioration. But as we cannot mingle with them as familiarly as with men (which itself is one of the grievances of this life), and as Satan, as we read, sometimes transforms himself into an angel of light, to tempt those whom it is necessary to discipline, or just to deceive, there is great need of Gods mercy to preserve us from making friends of demons in disguise, while we fancy we have good angels for our friends; for the astuteness and deceitfulness of these wicked spirits is equalled by their hurtfulness.St. Augustine of Hippo
Wherefore, though good and bad men suffer alike, we must not suppose that there is no difference between the men themselves, because there is no difference in what they both suffer. For even in the likeness of the sufferings, there remains an unlikeness in the sufferers; and though exposed to the same anguish, virtue and vice are not the same thing. For as the same fire causes gold to glow brightly, and chaff to smoke; and under the same flail the straw is beaten small, while the grain is cleansed; and as the lees are not mixed with the oil, though squeezed out of the vat by the same pressure, so the same violence of affliction proves, purges, clarifies the good, but damns, ruins, exterminates the wicked. And thus it is that in the same affliction the wicked detest God and blaspheme, while the good pray and praise. So material a difference does it make, not what ills are suffered, but what kind of man suffers them. For, stirred up with the same movement, mud exhales a horrible stench, and ointment emits a fragrant odor.St. Augustine of Hippo
To the divine providence it has seemed good to prepare in the world to come for the righteous good things, which the unrighteous shall not enjoy; and for the wicked evil things, by which the good shall not be tormented. But as for the good things of this life, and its ills, God has willed that these should be common to both; that we might not too eagerly covet the things which wicked men are seen equally to enjoy, nor shrink with an unseemly fear from the ills which even good men often suffer. There is, too, a very great difference in the purpose served both by those events which we call adverse and those called prosperous. For the good man is neither uplifted with the good things of time, nor broken by its ills; but the wicked man, because he is corrupted by this worlds happiness, feels himself punished by its unhappiness.St. Augustine of Hippo
All those of you who rejoice in peace, now it is time to judge the truth.... Undoubtedly in days gone by there were holy men as Scripture tells, For God stated that he left behind seven thousand men in safety, And there are many priests and kings who are righteous under the law, There you find so many of the prophets, and many of the people too. Tell me which of the righteous of that time claimed an altar for himself? That wicked nation perpetrated a very large number of crimes, They sacrificed to idols and may prophets were put to death, Yet not a single one of the righteous withdrew from unity. The righteous endured the unrighteous while waiting for the winnower: They all mingled in one temple but were not mingled in their hearts; They said such things against them yet they had a single altar.St. Augustine of Hippo


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Early results gave Rajapaksa, the incumbent president, a commanding lead [Reuters]
Sri Lankan troops have surrounded a hotel in Colombo where Sarath Fonseka, the former army chief and presidential candidate, is staying along with some of his supporters.
The government has said the move has been taken for Fonseka's own protection, but it has ratcheted up tensions before the outcome of the presidential election, already declared by state media to have been won by Mahinda Rajapakse, the incumbent.
Mike Hanna, Al Jazeera's correspondent, reporting from close to the Cinnamon Lakeside hotel in the Sri Lankan capital, said that the hotel neighbourhood had effectively become a military area.
"There are hundreds of troops on the street outside the hotel. There are blockades by buses in the roads leading to the hotel," he said.
"To come through we had to go through the cordon of the troops, a search by the troops of our vehicle - certainly its a very, very intense military presence outside the hotel where Sarath Fonseka and his entourage are staying."
'Protective measure'
Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara, the Sri Lankan military spokesman, said the troops had been deployed following information that army deserters were among about 400 people inside the hotel.
"We don't know what's their motive and as a protective measure, we have deployed troops around the hotel and people who go in and come out are being checked," Nanayakkara was quoted by The Associated Press news agency as saying.
Government allies, meanwhile, suggested that Fonseka's supporters might take to the streets, or that he intended to organise a coup with his own loyalists in the army if he lost the vote.
Both sides have denied the other's allegations and the election, which took place on Tuesday, was largely peaceful.
Early results showed that Mahinda Rajapakse, Sri Lanka's incumbent president, has taken a strong lead.
With only about a fifth of the ballots counted, Rajapakse was ahead with 60 per cent of the vote, but millions of votes - over 14 million Sri Lankans were eligible to vote in the election - are still to be tallied.
Hours later state television declared Rajapaksa the winner but there was no immediate confirmation and official results are expected at about 11:00 GMT.
Voter registration
On Tuesday, Fonseka found himself in the embarrassing position of telling reporters he "may have voted" but did not want to say if he had "due to security reasons".
The government announced after polls closed that it would seek court action to disqualify him from the race.
However, the country's electoral commissioner later issued a statement saying Fonseka's status on the voter rolls was irrelevant to his candidacy.
Separately, Susan Hayward, a Sri Lanka analyst at the US Institute for Peace, told Al Jazeera that there had been reports of some irregularities.
"The Centre for Monitoring Election Violence has given some reports of rigging," she said.
Some people had questioned the results of postal votes, which had showed Rajapaksa with a slight lead, she said.
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Guests who require assistance during their journey, should contact a member of Condor Ferries cabin crew if they need assistance during their journey. On the fast ferries, Condor 102, Condor Vitesse, Condor Express, and Condor Rapide, there are disabled toilets located on the port side of the ship just behind the Cafe. On the conventional ferry Commodore Clipper there is a communal disabled toilet facility shared by the two disabled cabins which is at aft end of the guest cabin area, on deck 8, port side. The port side is the left-hand side of the ship when you are facing direction of travel. There is also a disabled toilet facility in the Brasserie Lounge on deck 7, on the starboard side forward. The starboard side is the right-hand side of the ship when you are facing direction of travel.
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17. As a business owner, there's no way for you to completely avoid marketing. If you really don't enjoy the process, hire or contract with someone who does. But even if you're going to delegate the marketing and sales functions, you must participate in the planning and pay attention to how things are going.
"I don't know how to write a marketing plan."
18. Your marketing plan doesn't have to be great literature; it just has to be a comprehensive program to help you meet your goals. It's a good idea to read some books on creating a marketing plan. You should also study what techniques did and didn't work for others in competing and complementary businesses. Cherie Kerr, an author of communication skills books and a public relations consultant in Santa Ana, California, says marketing includes three basic functions: advertising, public relations and promotions. Each should be integrated into your marketing plan.
19. Map out and commit to your strategy for at least the first full year of operation; then track your results as you go. Be flexible--if something isn't working and you've given it a reasonable chance, adjust your plan.
"I don't have very much money to spend on marketing."
20. Kerr says when it comes to marketing, public relations usually provides the biggest bang for the buck. Put together a solid press kit and send out news releases about your company. If you don't know how, get professional help--if you can't afford it, find out if your local university or college has a marketing or communications student who will help you.
21. Network! It costs practically nothing and pays off big, says Kerr, so give your business card to everyone you meet. She suggests this technique for building a database of prospective customers: List everyone you know (your Christmas-card list is a good place to start), then send a note or make a call to five of those people every day, telling them about your business and asking them about anyone they know who might be a potential customer. If you accumulate just five leads per day, you'll have a database of more than 1,200 names in six months.
Knowing a solution before the problem occurs can mean the difference between a smooth start-up and a rocky ride. Your best bet for a long-running business is to anticipate what you'll have to deal with, and have plans in place before you need them.
Jacquelyn Lynn left the corporate world more than 13 years ago and has been writing about business and management from her home office in Winter Park, Florida, ever since.
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Taste of Chicago and Lollapalooza festgoers won't be able to ride in pedicabs down Michigan Avenue this summer to escape the thousands of people pouring out of Grant Park.
That's because Michigan Avenue and State Street are off-limits to pedicabs from Oak Street to Congress Parkway due to the new city ordinance that went into effect this month.
"It remains to be seen how we're going to be able to serve the public at these festivals where typically we are most helpful and utilized," said T.C. O'Rourke, a Chicago Pedicab Association board member.
Additionally, pedicabs no longer are allowed in the Loop from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. and from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Mondays through Fridays.
"We want to keep them rolling. We want passengers in the back. Losing downtown is a big hit for us," said Robert Tipton, owner of Chicago Rickshaw, operating in the city since 2008.
The ordinance also requires insurance and safety equipment as well as licensing for pedicabs and its drivers. The operational restrictions, chauffeur license requirement and the threat of a fine or impoundment have put a damper on business, pedicab owners and drivers said.
As a result, pedicab owners and operators said they noticed fewer drivers are renting and driving pedicabs on the streets and fewer passengers are seeking rides.
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Now that he's no longer allowed on Michigan Avenue or State Street, O'Rourke seeks riders at Navy Pier, Willis Tower and Soldier Field. But he said he's not making as much money as when he was working on Michigan Avenue, and even lost fares because he had to raise prices because the trips took more time.
Safety also is a concern; instead of taking Michigan Avenue, pedicabs are riding down Columbus Drive, where cars drive faster and merge onto the road from parking garage ramps. Another issue: Columbus Drive often is closed during festivals or foot races on the weekend.
As a driver, Nicole Mangiaracina said she appreciates the street restrictions because she found it nerve-wracking to pass the wide-load pedicabs on the road. But she has used pedicabs to get to her destination quickly, explaining that she took a $30 pedicab ride from the Soldier Field parking lot to the stadium for a Bears-Cowboys game when it was freezing cold in December.
"It was really fun. He had a speaker system in it so he was playing fun, loud music," said Mangiaracina, 26, of Ukrainian Village.
Last summer, she hopped in a pedicab and headed to Wrigley Field for a Cubs game. "We were running late. Instead of walking, we just took that," she said. "Traffic was too bad to take a cab."
Pedicab operators said they supported regulation, but the problem lay with which streets they are prohibited from riding on despite paying a ground transportation tax to the city.
"We want regulation, but we don't want over-regulation," Tipton said.
The street restriction has put pedicab owners and drivers at odds with politicians who supported the ordinance and believed it would improve traffic flow.
"While this ordinance contains provisions limiting pedicabs in certain areas, it does give full access to the rest of the city," Ald. Tom Tunney (44th), who sponsored the ordinance, said in a residential newsletter. "I believe that this ordinance strikes a balance that will allow the pedicab industry to flourish while preserving safety in our city."
Getting pedicab drivers licensed has gotten off to a slow start.
O'Rourke was the first of five pedicab drivers to get a chauffeur license, a process that included a background check, a physical exam and written test. Requiring pedicab drivers to have a valid driver's license for at least one year in order to get a pedicab chauffeur license was problematic, he said.
"Many pedicab operators don't own automobiles. They walk and bicycle and take public transit—all things the city is encouraging and yet they are being rewarded for that by being exempted from pursuing their livelihood," said O'Rourke, 41, of Logan Square.
In an email to O'Rourke, the city said it will hold off enforcing requirements to allow applicants more time to apply for licenses.
"As with any new license type, we want to work closely with new industries coming into compliance," said Mika Stambaugh, spokeswoman for the city's Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection. "The BACP is focusing its enforcement efforts primarily on public safety and traffic related violations."
Still, restrictions and certain requirements, such as getting a physical and setting a cap on licenses, are overkill, said Roger Brownworth, owner of Roger Rickshaw, which has downsized its fleet over the past couple of years.
But he saw an advantage, too. "Since Chicago is the last major city to pass an ordinance, we've collected all the bad pedicabbers and the bad pedicab bikes have come here because it's been the wild, wild West," Brownworth said. That contributed to giving the pedicab industry a bad reputation, he said.
"It's good because regulation will make it a safer industry and will legitimize the industry."
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"Tamouré, Tahitian dance"
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Your recent column about Hawaiian music gives me hope you can provide some information about a record that must have been from the Islands.
In mid-1963, amidst all the dance, surf, and hot rod hits, was a Hawaiian vocal by a female group. It may be titled "Dance of Love," or at least they use that line.
I know where I was - taking summer classes at Northwestern - and I know this was a big hit in Chicago. It was played as often as other songs, but, unlike "Surfin' U.S.A." and "It's My Party", this infectious tune has, to my knowledge, never been played again anywhere. When I ask for help identifying it, no one even knows what I'm talking about.
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- Sandi Mason, Kenosha, Wisc.
I do, but only because of the Chicago connection. There are, as you're about to learn, many possibilities.
Your mystery song is "Tamouré" (tam-or-RAY) one of those countless 1963 dance numbers. But, unlike the bird and bossa nova, the Tahitian-born tamouré never caught on in America - neither the record nor the dance.
The "Tamouré" in the WLS Top 10 in Chicago is by Bill Justis (Smash 1812), and it peaked at No. 7 in late May and early June.
Bill Justis is the famous sax player whose "Raunchy" (1957), is a R&R classic, yet neither he nor his sax is heard on "Tamouré." He is the arranger and conductor, but the un-credited vocals are by the Stephen Scott Singers.
Despite many Polynesian cultural connections between Tahiti and our 50th state, there is nothing Hawaiian about "Tamouré."
The real tamouré, a dance with extreme booty-shaking maneuvers, can be done to many different recordings, most of which are a variation of "Vini Vini."
The earliest U.S. release of "Vini Vini" is on the 1958 LP by Terorotua and His Tahitians, titled "Lure of Tahiti" (ABC-Paramount 271). It is sung in their native language.
For about four years, the tamouré remained relatively unknown beyond French Polynesia.
Then in 1962, in France itself, a tamouré craze struck, fueled by recordings such as "Dansez le Tamouré" (Elle Est Partie le Tamoure) ["It is the Tamouré Party"] "Special Danse" featuring "Tamouré Vini Vini" (Vogue EPL 8-049).
This is why the picture sleeve for the Bill Justis "Tamouré" single reads: "The French Dance Rage Comes to America."
Well, it definitely came to Chicagoland, as reported in the June 1, 1963 Billboard:
"CHICAGO - Bill Justice's [sic] "Tamouré" on Smash was the hottest of the new sides here last week."
Far beyond Chi-town and France, a tamouré tune could be heard on nearly every continent in mid-'63.
From that same magazine comes this rave from George Hilder in Sydney, where "Tamouré" is No. 1 in Australia:
"The current sensation in the local industry has been the phenomenal success of "Tamouré" by Bill Justis [Philips BF-26]. It jumped from No. 89 to No. 1 on the Top 100. Philips started to publicize the disk with a double-page spread in a Sunday newspaper five weeks ago, which aroused immediate interest. Paul Turner of Philips organized a national tie-up with the Fred Astaire studio and a dance competition with the winning couple receiving a flight to Tahiti, plus $100 expense money" (before you laugh, that is approximately $1,000 in today's money).
The Australian picture sleeve shows the title as "Tamouré (The Dance of Love)," the sub-title being the line in the song that stuck in your memory.
That sleeve also promotes the Philips dance contest with a "Win a Wonderful Flight on TEAL to Fabulous Tahiti" banner.
Elsewhere, local recordings topped their respective charts. Especially noteworthy are "Wini-Wini" by Die Tahiti-Tamourés (Polydor 24-991), in Germany, and "Wini-Wini" by the Waikiki Tamoure (Triola TA-5), in Scandinavia. In Japan, rather than a version by one of their own, Philips repackaged the Bill Justis "Tamouré" (Philips M1055).
Inexplicably, this American (Nashville) recording by an American artist was enormous overseas and never even made the Top 100 in America, though that didn't keep numerous others in the States from trying to claim a piece of the tamouré mania so successful elsewhere.
Among those efforts are: "Tamouré" by Don Costa (Columbia 42785) (1963); "The Tamouré Shake" by Lester Lanin and His Orchestra (Epic 5-9624) (1963); "Tamouré, Tamouré, Amoure" by Joye Bell (Glass Piano 201) (1964); "Tamouré" by Carlos Rubio (Fontana 67515) (1964); "Vini Vini (Tamouré)" by Manuia & Maeva (Almo ) (1965); and "Vini Vini (Tamouré)" by Dick & Dee Dee (Warner Bros. 5652) (1965).
I'm told the Dick & Dee Dee tune was a minor hit in Hawaii.
Two tamouré records actually did make the U.S. Top 40, but only because each is merely the flip side of a hit:
"Orange Tamouré" is the B-side of "Charade," from the 1963 film of the same name, by Henry Mancini & His Orchestra (RCA Victor 47-8256), and on the reverse of "Hawaii Tattoo," by the Waikikis, is "Tahiti Tamouré" (Kapp 30)(1964)
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Our desire to conserve wildlife for our children and our children's children forces us to bring out into the open conservation's secret question : Does God give a prize for the maximum number of human beings? Put another way, which shall we bequeath to our grandchildren : human life with nature, or human life without nature?Garrett James Hardin
conservation of land and conservation of people frequently go hand in hand.Eleanor Roosevelt
The purpose of conservation: The greatest good to the greatest number of people for the longest time.Gifford Pinchot
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Without knowing it, we utilize hundreds of products each day that owe their origin to wild animals and plants. Indeed our welfare is intimately tied up with the welfare of wildlife. Well may conservationists proclaim that by saving the lives of wild species, we may be saving our own.Norman Myers†
The outgrowth of conservation, the inevitable result, is national efficiency.Gifford Pinchot
People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile.David Attenborough
The purpose of conservation: the greatest good to the greatest number of people for the longest time.Gifford Pinchot
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Conservation is a foresighted utilization, preservation and/or renewal of forest, waters, lands and minerals, for the greatest good of the greatest number for the longest time.Gifford Pinchot
A land ethic, then, reflects the existence of an ecological conscience, and this in turn reflects a conviction of individual responsibility for the health of the land. Health is the capacity of the land for self-renewal. Conservation is our effort to understand and preserve this capacity.Ibid
A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.Adlai E. Stevenson
Perhaps a better title for The Da Vinci Code might be Much Ado About Nothing. When you boil away the hype and hysteria, all that remains is a pedestrian murder mystery that isn't sufficiently challenging or scandalous to raise anyone's hackles. It's preposterous, overlong, and saddled with a sloppy denouement that defines the term "anti-climax." The film's two big "surprises" are telegraphed early, and the ease with which they can be guessed (using the "conservation of characters" process) leeches the movie of a large measure of its suspense. Individual scenes are entertaining in their own right, but the production as a whole is a lumbering mess.James Berardinelli
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In Repiggie World, an Obama win using Super PAC money would be an unintended consequence of Citizens United and Super PACs. Surprise!!
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Or maybe not. President Obama is facing an unprecedented juggernaut in his bid for reelection, a uniquely toxic coalescence of the Super-Rich, corporations, extremist conservatives, fundamentalist religious nuts, white supremacists, and, of course, the right wing media. The level of financial investment behind it is simultaneously unlimited and mysterious, thanks to the Citizens United decision. They will have millions of motivated small donors as well, in addition to having the Koch brothers, Karl Rove, Dick Armey, and the like. Unlimited corporate funding has simply overwhelmed the electoral process, forcing anyone who wants a chance to play along. If Obama had decided to follow his conscience and reject unlimited money, his campaign argues it would be no less than "unilateral disarmament." And when you take even a passing glance at his likely opposition in the Fall, isn't it clear that losing is not an option? Mittens will be sucking from his Restoring Our Future Super PAC without hesitation, Santorum from Red, White, and Blue, and Newt from Winning the Future . Plenty of metaphors have been used for the dilemma Obama faced in changing his mind, but they boil down to the wisdom of not going into battle unprepared to fight. If that sounds like a "by any means necessary" argument, it is. We can't forget what happened in 2000 this quickly.
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Citizens United…..What a piece of BS and everybody with a piece of sane brains knows it!!!!!
the president broke his contract with the american people. i will still vote for him because he is all we are offered because lets face it the others are just example of the new corrupt government official i think that we need to rethink elections and make them free from and money ie: free televised debates free opinions and statements ads for all that want to run use the internet to spread your campaign no money then no ones vote is bribed because giving money to a political party or person only opens them up to thinly disguised blackmail for their way


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Six of the Most Disturbing Racist and Sexist Themed College Frat Events from the Past Year
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It's common knowledge that at fraternity and sorority parties much more is slurred than just words. Racial and sexual epithets abound, not only spoken, but also displayed through dress, signs, gestures, email and social media posts. Yet year after year this practice continues, unabated, reported on for salacious details and then left to die in the news caverns of the Huffington Post archives.
Caitlin Flanagan's cover story for the Atlantic on the history of frat house fatalities, fraternity, and to a much lesser extent sorority culture, has rekindled public outrage. The hulking, year-long investigation covers nearly two centuries of brotherly exclusivity along with more recent scourges of sexual assault, students falling from great heights at parties, and painful hazing rituals.
Let the media mudslinging (or, rather, the Animal House-style food fights) begin! Maria Konnikova also wrote for the Atlantic this week about the cult of white male privilege that characterizes so many fraternities. "One of the fundamental principles of group psychology," Konnikova writes, "is that, in order to define a group, you must define not only what it's for, but what — or whom — it's against."
Konnikova began to get at the psychological underpinnings of frat life, but it was Katie J.M. Baker at Al Jazeera who administered the smackdown. Baker writes that Flanagan's article doesn't "look at the real 'dark' side of Greek life: institutional class privilege, racism and sexism." That's true. When Greek life makes it into the media spotlight it's almost always to do with some outrageously insensitive party that targets women and minorities for the pleasure of their mostly white, mostly male peers (okay, and rapebaiting emails and the occasional butt-chug).
Don't know much about history? Consider this your primer on another year of racist, sexist ragers that no amount of dubious punch can black out.
1. "Thug Party" at Arizona State University
What's the sexiest time for a bunch of privileged white kids to wear basketball jerseys, drink frat juice from hollowed-out watermelons, and flash gang signs? According to members of the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity at Arizona State University that would be MLK day (correct answer: never). This past January, students congregated in what they interpreted as thug attire, posted copious pictures of the charade on social media, and even got creative with tags like #MLKblackout and #hood and studded their Instagram posts with watermelon emoticons.
The New York Times reported that the fraternity was suspended after outraged students allied with civil rights leaders. The fraternity had already been on probation after one of its members was suspected of beating up a black classmate on campus. The ASU undergraduate student population is 5 percent black.
2. "USA vs. Mexico" party at Randolph-Macon University
In November, members of Kappa Alpha fraternity threw a party where guests were encouraged to dress like "illegal Mexicans" and border patrol agents at Randolph-Macon University in Ashland Virginia. Participants, who sported sombreros, large fake mustaches, and border patrol disguises, were encouraged to play a drinking game in which the students dressed as agents tried to "catch" students portraying immigrants. According to NBC Latino, the fraternity's guiding slogan is "The moral compass for the modern gentleman."
Randolph-Macon University is only the most recent example of this insolent strain of frat party. The University of Texas at Austin had promoted such an event in September 2012. "Alpha Tau Omega Presents Fiestau" advertised a veritable obstacle course of institutional racism with guests told there would be some sort of faux-wall in the middle of the party with Mexican-themed drinks on one side and Texan-themed drinks on the other. There's nothing borderline about the biases of those who planned the event without raising objections. In response to pressure from a slew of UT students, the party name was unhelpfully changed to "Alpha Tau Omega Presents the Alamo" and then canceled altogether.
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So will West Side win yet another Northwestern Conference title in football this fall?
Will Renaldo Thomas make a huge difference at his alma mater, Roosevelt, and lead the Panthers to an NWC title in boys basketball?
Will Lew Wallace challenge for the top spot in the NWC track and field meet in the spring?
The answer to all of those questions is a resounding "No!" because there isn't a Northwestern Conference anymore — officially.
Then again, it wasn't a conference the last couple years either, with just three schools.
First in an email, then on the phone, Gary city athletic director Earl Smith made it official that the process of forming a new conference is ongoing, and that Roosevelt is no longer under his office's umbrella.
"We cannot call this a conference with only two schools," he said. "Roosevelt does not come under the Gary Community School jurisdiction and is not a member of what I would say is a true conference.
"With three schools we really didn't have a conference. We changed the conference track meet to the Hall of Fame Meet, and we haven't given out any awards for winning titles."
The disappearance of the NWC is no surprise since Wirt was closed in 2009. But what is slightly surprising is Smith admitting that Roosevelt is basically an independent. It's basically become a charter school without being a charter school since EdisonLearning took over.
I don't get it. Just because an outside firm came in to fix the academic issues doesn't mean it's all of a sudden become an athletic pariah.
But I won't argue with Smith on that one. There are plenty of things in life I just don't understand and am fine going through life continuing to not understand.
Where I am on the same page with Smith is getting a new conference formed right away. It's too late for this school year, obviously, but there had better be a new group together and new conference by-laws for the 2013-14 campaign, and it should still be called the Northwestern Conference.
Roosevelt still plays West Side and Wallace in all sports this year, though that was even a question mark up until a couple weeks ago.
"There are some factors I'm not at liberty to discuss, but it was debatable whether (Roosevelt) would play the other two," Smith said. "Surprisingly, they couldn't find any athletic contracts for this year."
It's not that surprising to me. First, EdisonLearning was probably not concerned about athletic contracts to start off. Second, chaos is the norm in Gary, so missing school contracts shouldn't be a shock.
Hopefully, Smith's talk about a new conference brings calm to the chaos sooner rather than later.
Not to toot my own horn, but I said a little more than a year ago in a column that the NWC needed to add schools to prevent extinction. A couple days later, Smith chimed in on how important the quest is to him.
"It's time to save the NWC," he said.
It's not about saving the NWC anymore. It's about reconstruction.
There have been a couple meetings with charter schools Bowman Academy, 21st Century and Gary Lighthouse. Assuming Roosevelt is brought back into the fold, that's a healthy six schools.
But why stop there? Hammond High and East Chicago have been part of the discussion, though Hammond is a longshot. The Wildcats are already in the Great Lakes Athletic Conference — barely above extinction level itself with four Hammond schools, but a group nonetheless.
I still think Clark, Gavit and Hammond would be better off away from Morton. In most sports the Governors are way above the other three. In football, it's light years apart, and not just because of the talent on the field and consistent excellence from the coaching staff. Morton's the only Hammond school with Fieldturf while the other three have football fields that would be better cow pastures if not for the lines and numbers.
Not to mention Morton openly admitted it was looking to become the eighth member of the Northwest Crossroads Conference, which would be a perfect fit, while Clark, Gavit and Hammond would fit perfectly with EC, the three Gary public schools and the three charter schools.
Hey, that's a 10-school conference. Sounds perfect. Two of the charter schools (21st Century and Lighthouse) don't have football teams, so that means it's an eight-team group for football — also perfect.
"Some great rivalries have almost disappeared," Smith said, referring mostly to basketball. "I asked East Chicago why they would go to a holiday tournament downstate when they have the Turkey Classic. Gary schools don't even participate anymore."
He recalled when that event was two days with all local teams. It's been four teams for years with a Chicago school in it last year.
Bottom line is that politics, egos and a lack of logic have gotten in the way of a simple solution to the problem. Hatfield-and-McCoy quarrels are getting in the way.
"It's a real sensitive situation," Smith said. "Some fences need mending. When guys like Ike Brown and (Ron) Heflin were coaching, we wanted to beat each other, but still got along off the court. Now it's personal. We've lost that (respect) and I'm trying to get it back."
Bowman might be the key, and I would hope athletic director and coach Marvin Rea would understand how being a member of a conference would be beneficial to the kids, the school and the fans since he's a Roosevelt graduate who played in plenty of rivalry games.
It's time to let bygones be bygones and form the new conference. Otherwise, several people not named Earl Smith will be letting grudges get in the way of what's best for the kids.


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