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Post subject: William C. Dietz Interview (June 7, 2008)
Interview with William C. Dietz
June 7, 2008
We all know that you are a bestselling author of several Science Fiction novels, including tie-ins to Star Wars and Hitman. How did you embrace the prospect of writing a novel for Halo?
I was invited to write
Halo The Flood
by Random House/Del Rey who owned the rights to publish Halo tie-in novels at that time. I wasn't familiar with the game, but immediately bought an X-Box, and played it. (Remember, this is about seven years ago, before everybody had some sort of gaming console.) I've always been a fan of first person shooters and the moment I began to play I knew Halo was something special. Especially when compared to playing Quake, Doom, and Unreal on my PC!
Still, before agreeing to write the book, I wanted to make sure that other gamers liked it as much as I did. So I went down to the local game store to carry out some market research. The guy behind the counter told me that Halo was flying off the shelves--and that was all I needed to know. I went home, called my agent, and agreed to write the book.
Youve mentioned in your biography that you served with the US Navy and Marine Corps as a medic, which provides an advantage to writing military fiction. How has your experience in the military influenced your writing of
Halo: The Flood
There are lots of people who write good military science fiction without having served, and I should point out that while I served, I never saw any action other than in the bars of Honolulu! So I don't consider myself to be a veteran in the real sense of the word. That being said I was immersed in the military cultures of both the Navy and the Marine Corps long enough to pick up on a lot of the traditions, mannerisms, and values that the various branches have in common. And I think that knowledge colors and informs my military science fiction.
The 26th century UNSC Marines seem an awful lot similar to the US Marine Corps, in that they have the same motto, dog tags, and Meals-Ready-to-Eat at their disposal. However, this does appear to be somewhat peculiar, considering the Marines in Halo are part of an international, interstellar fighting force hosted by what seems to be the United Nations. Has the UNSC Marine Corps also absorbed other traditions of the USMC, such as battle tactics, insignias, shoulder pins, anthems?
I am not authorized to speak on behalf of the Bungie team where the Halo universe is concerned, so I'm not sure about specifics like insignias, shoulder pins and so forth. But yes, there's no mistaking the fact that the UNSC Marines are based on the United States Marine Corps, and I think that's fun! Of course maybe that's because I spent some time with what we called "The Green Machine" and enjoy those references.
Major Antonio Silva knows about John-117s abduction as a child and his indoctrination in Naval Special Warfare, even though that information is held classified by the intelligence service. How did he find out, and why did Captain Keyes release that information?
Wow! It has been seven years since I wrote the book... So details like that are not exactly top of mind at this point. I would have to go back to the book and my notes to see what if anything I have on the subject and I'm totally slammed right now. Sorry about that.
Did the ODSTs under Silvas command wear ODST Body Suits during the resistance on Alpha Halo, or did they wear regular Marine outfits?
No, to my mind the ODSTs were wearing standard body armor, and standard marine uniforms, but not Body Suits. That is how I saw them in my mind's eye.
What is your response to some of the negative reviews and criticisms of
The Flood
? Do you think you did a good job? Was it difficult to write a story based on the plot and main characters of an action-FPS videogame?
I haven't read all of the reviews of Halo The Flood--there's so many! But of those that I have read, the negative ones often say something to the effect that the book is just like the game, so why read it? What those readers may not realize is that I was hired to novelize the game. That means taking the game and turning it into a book. Which is different from writing a completely new tie-in story like the books Mr. Nylund wrote. Or, put another way, I did what I was hired to do.
However, in an effort to bring something additional to the book I requested permission from Bungie to insert brand new material in between some of the cut scenes, consequently dropping some of the levels in the game. Thereby giving readers a glimpse of what was happening in between missions, and off-camera so to speak, hopefully adding depth to the overall game/book experience. Many reviewers took note of that--and give me credit for it. And I appreciate it!
How did Bungie choose you to write
The Flood
? How did they contact you?
I wasn't part of the deliberations of course, but I assume that I was chosen because of my long running and very successful
Legion Of The Damned
series, which is about a futuristic French Foreign Legion. I was contacted through my literary agent in New York.
How did you start your writing career? Do you have any advice for new writers? Since this is a fan fiction forum, we have many members who are interested in following a writing career, or at least writing on the side. What challenges did you face when you started writing for publication?
I think the first step in any literary career is to read a lot of books. The second step is do a lot of writing. And it doesn't have to be fiction. Prior to writing my first novel I went to college, got a job as a news writer, and wrote all sorts of marketing communications materials for large corporations subsequent to that. The point being that I was using the tools and getting better the more that I did so. I set myself the goal of writing a novel during college, but years went by, and I never got around to it.
At some point I told myself that I would write a book by the time I was 40, but when 39 arrived, I still hadn't started. So I sat down and went to work on the premise that while the novel probably wouldn't sell at least I would keep the promise to myself. Well, long story short, that first book did sell! And it sold the first time I sent it in.
Why? Partly because I had chosen to write space opera at a moment when there was a market for it, partly because an editor happened to take an interest in me, and partly because I wrote a fairly entertaining story. It was called
, since renamed
, and now more than 20 years later it is still in print. A minor miracle in itself. In any case the main thing that would-be authors should do is write, write, and write some more. Just keep trying. It's still difficult to launch a conventional writing career, but there are lots of Internet related opportunities these days, and that's a great place to start.
One of the biggest issues many fans had with
The Flood
was your characterization of the Chief. Do you agree that you wrote the Chief as out of character? If so, what difficulties may have lead to this?
Apparently, judging from your words, there must be some folks who feel that I wrote the Chief out of character. That's news to me. All I can tell you is that the Bungie folks, who care deeply about the character and the universe never raised that issue, and approved the book as written.
However, there's no doubt that every author is different, and will approach characters differently. So if Nylund's rendition of the Chief is different from my own in subtle ways that would be understandable.
The Flood
you reference Project Orion. How significant was the established background that Bungie gave you on this, and would you be interested in possibly returning to write a novel centered around Orion?
Bungie gave me a great deal of background material which was extremely useful in writing the book. As for writing a book centered around Project Orion, or any other aspect of Halo, I would never say never. Writing
Halo The Flood
was a lot of fun, and the Bungie team was great to work with, so you never know.
Are there any stories in the Halo universe that you would like to return to pen?
I don't have anything specific in mind, no. But it's a wonderful universe, which is full of exciting possibilities, so it wouldn't take long to come up with something!
How much leeway did Bungie give you when you were writing
The Flood
? Were they looking at every step of the writing process or were you allowed liberty to go where you wanted?
As mentioned earlier the task was to novelize the book, so I was expected to stick to the game, except for the new pre-approved sequences that I added.
Who was your favorite character of The Flood?
The Chief of course.... How could it be otherwise?
Out of all your novels, such as
, do you compare them to
The Flood
It's extremely difficult to compare my own original novels to tie-in novels because of the fact that I can go anywhere I want with my own work and must stay within the boundaries of whatever universe I've been hired to work in where tie-in books are concerned. Each form has its advantages. I love the freedom of working for myself, but it's a whole lot of fun being part of a team too, and working on a for-hire project that you believe in. Halo being an excellent example.
Do you ever probe fan fiction for ideas? As T.S. Eliot once said, Mediocre writers borrow; great writers steal.
No, I don't. Fortunately I have lots of ideas and I'm grateful for that.
How do you view fan fiction in general? Do you enjoy seeing what people have done with characters you created?
Like most authors I'm thrilled when someone is so engaged by a story or character that they want to participate by writing themselves. And what a great way to practice the craft of writing! Of course it isn't appropriate for people to take characters and universes created by others and attempt to profit from them. I haven't had that problem so far as I know--but other authors have.
When writing
The Flood
, how much of the story and equipment in it was given to you already, and how much of it was created by you?
Again, because I was hired to novelize the game, so it was mostly a matter of playing the game and translating it into words. I was allowed to add material however--which would be everything that didn't appear in the game!
If you had been able to write
The Flood
without being limited to the levels shown in-game, how much differently would you have done it?
That would require quite a bit of thought... Perhaps more of the same, meaning more side stories, and more time spent with Covenant characters ala Halo 2.
Who are some of your favorite writers/biggest inspirations?
Heinlein, Asimov, Norton, Twain, Kipling, Kafka, Reeman, Cornwell, Doyle, Dumas and many more, all in no particular order.
What career would you have followed if you were not successful at writing?
I was a TV Director/Producer (News & Marketing type stuff) long before I wrote a novel, and was reasonably good at it.
Do you play Halo 3? If so, do you play on-line? If so, do u haz recon?
Are you kidding? I LOVE Halo 3. No, I don't play on-line because I know all you guys would beat me! <Grin>
And, I'm busy writing, writing, writing.
We would like to thank Mr. William C. Dietz for taking a reasonable amount of time out of his schedule to sit down, talk to us, and explain his wonderful endeavors in writing. We wish him all the best of luck with his projects and writing career.
All best wishes, Halo.Bungie.Org Fan Fiction.
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Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 6:39 pm
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Dave, can you please stick this thread into a public forum. Maybe the Fan Fiction Announcements forum?
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Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 7:13 pm
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Wow, is it really seven years since
The Flood
and Halo CE?
On the subject of complaints about the Chief being OOC, I wonder how close together FoR and
The Flood
were written? Mr. Dietz may not have even gotten to read it before it was published. I'd never noticed any huge differences in their characterizations myself, but it's been a while since I've read any of the novels.
Anyways, thanks for organizing this, Trooper, and thanks, of course, to Mr. Dietz.
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Great job, UNSC Trooper. I think this was an excellent idea and it's nice to see it actually get done and posted.
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The media appear to delight in exploiting the plight of the Republican Party, particularly the flap between Dick Cheney and Colin Powell. Cheney's comment that he thought Powell had left the Republican Party because he endorsed Obama, provided a perfect opportunity for Powell to take the TV podium to tell Republicans they must become more moderate to reverse the flight from their ranks.
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The Obama administration is also a willing participant in the development of a global mechanism to regulate the flow of currency, which undoubtedly would have to skim a small administrative fee, and thereby gain an independent revenue stream - and regulate global trade. This has been a major goal of the United Nations since the publication of thefinal report of the Commission on Global Governance.
In Washington, and across the country, there is a growing willingness to accept further international entanglement and a willingness to reject constitutional principles. This is because the advocates of collectivism have been far more aggressive than the advocates of freedom have been. In the past, freedom has reigned, and its advocates have been complacent.
In the past, the threat of tyranny has been sufficient to mobilize the complacent advocates of freedom to respond with whatever it took to defeat the would-be conquerors. The time has come once again to respond to freedom's call.
It is still early enough in the unfolding threat to reverse the gains of the collectivist usurpers. Every voter should hold every candidate accountable to at least these two tests of American values: Co-sponsor and vote for the Enumerated Powers act; and to reject global governance by rejecting entangling international treaties.
Regardless of party affiliation, a candidate who will not pledge to stand for these two values does not deserve to be in Congress, or in government at any other level. Conversely, office holders who fail this litmus test should be turned out of office at the very next election.
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Game #25 • March 1, 2013 • 7 p.m.
Yale Bulldogs (10-14, 5-5 Ivy League) vs. Columbia Lions (3-20, 1-8 Ivy League)
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Yale Bulldogs (10-14, 5-5 Ivy League) vs. Cornell Big Red (11-12, 3-6 Ivy League)
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Yale will play the final two home games of the season this weekend when Columbia and Cornell visit John J. Lee Amphitheater. Yale will host Senior Night on Saturday and pay tribute to seniors Allie Messimer and Megan Vasquez prior to the game against Cornell. Yale Athletics will also celebrate the annual Pink Zones event throughout the day after the event, which was originally scheduled on Feb. 2, was postponed because of last month's blizzard. Yale is looking to sweep the season series from both Columbia and Cornell this weekend with victories in both games. Vasquez (1,353 career points) enters the weekend just 18 points away from Seattle Storm co-owner Lisa Brummel '81 (1,371 points) for sixth place on Yale's all-time scoring list. Vasquez is also 65 points away from tying Melissa Colborne '10 (1,418 points) and becoming one of the top five scorers in Yale's history.
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Columbia (3-20, 1-8) has dropped to eighth place in the Ivy League standings after losing the last three games. The Lions have lost 11 of their last 12 games, with the only win coming at home against Brown on Feb. 15. The Lions also have two non-league wins this season over Fairleigh Dickinson (54-47, Nov. 18) and St. Francis Brooklyn (49-45, Dec. 11). Since the start of the Ivy League season, Columbia's eight league losses have come by an average margin of 23.5 points. Columbia is last in the Ivy League in scoring, averaging just 48.6 points per game. The Lions have scored less than 50 points in 13 of their 23 games. However, Columbia's defense can create problems for opposing teams. The Lions have allowed just 62.6 points per game, fifth in the Ivy League, including three games in which they held opponents to less than 50 points. The Lions rank at or near the bottom of the Ivy League in every category except for steals and offensive rebounds. Columbia ranks second in the Ivy League with 9.3 steals per game, and it ranks fourth with 12.6 offensive rebounds per game. Tyler Simpson leads Columbia with 9.4 points per game, 8.9 ppg. in Ivy League games. Courtney Bradford is Columbia's leading rebounder with 6.1 rpg.
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Yale holds a 40-17 edge in a series that dates back to 1975-76 and includes four wins over Barnard College from 1975-1980. Yale and Columbia did not start competing again until the Lions' jump to Division I in 1986-87, and the Bulldogs own a 36-17 edge since. Since 1999-2000, Yale is 5-9 in games at Columbia and 9-4 at home. With a 62-43 win on Feb. 16, Yale earned its first win at Columbia since Feb. 1, 2008. Yale split the series last season, winning at home and losing at Columbia. The Bulldogs are 6-9 against the Lions during Chris Gobrecht's tenure as head coach at Yale.
First Meeting of 2012-13
Yale used a dominant first half on Feb. 16 to accomplish a feat for the first time in 15 years. Four players scored in double figures to lead Yale's balanced scoring attack to a 62-43 win at Columbia. The win gave Yale its first weekend road sweep of Cornell and Columbia since the 1997-98 season. It was also Yale's first win at Columbia since a 66-59 win on Feb. 1, 2008. Six players scored all of Yale's points. Megan Vasquez and Sarah Halejian both had 12 points, while Zenab Keita and Janna Graf both added 11 points. Alexandra Osborn-Jones and Allie Messimer both scored eight points. Halejian added seven rebounds and five assists. Keita had nine rebounds, while Vasquez dished out six assists. Miwa Tachibana scored 10 of her 15 points in the first half to lead Columbia. Tyler Simpson scored all 10 of her points in the second half. Over a 9:50 span in the first half, Yale used a 20-0 run to blow the game wide open and take a 36-11 lead with 3:48 left in the half. Osborn-Jones scored all eight of her points in the run. In the second half, the Lions cut Yale's lead to 40-35 before Vasquez drained a 3-pointer at 10:39 to stop the Lions' run. Leading 43-38 with 10:17 left, Yale used a 17-1 run over the next 6:12 to pull ahead 60-39 with 4:05 left, effectively putting the game out of reach for Columbia.
Defensive Stalwarts
Brittany Simmons tallied a career-high eight steals against Cornell on Jan. 19 and is third in the Ivy League with 2.0 steals per game. As a team, the Lions are second in the Ivy League with 9.3 steals per game. Under the basket, the Lions' defensive leader is Courtney Bradford, who is leading Columbia with 6.1 rebounds per game and 15 blocks. She is sixth in the Ivy League in rebounds, fourth in offensive rebounds (2.3 orpg.) and seventh in defensive rebounds (3.7 drpg.). Simmons is second on the team in rebounds (5.0 rpg.).
Scouting Cornell
Cornell (11-12, 3-6) currently sits in sixth place in the Ivy League standings after losing six of its last seven games. The Big Red's only win in that stretch was a home win over Brown on Feb. 16. The Big Red won three of its last four non-league games before sweeping Columbia to begin Ivy League play. Cornell has faced common non-league opponents Fordham, New Hampshire, St. Francis Brooklyn, and Bucknell, going 1-3 against teams that Yale was 3-1 against. Yale's lone loss in those games came against New Hampshire, while Cornell's lone win came against St. Francis Brooklyn. The Big Red are fifth in the league in scoring (57.3 ppg.) and fourth in scoring defense (61.3 ppg). Cornell is second in the league in assists, averaging 13.8 assists on an average of 20.5 made field goals per game. Cornell is led by junior guard Allyson DiMagno, who is averaging a double-double with 14.1 points and an Ivy League-best 11.3 rebounds per game. She is also leading the Big Red in steals (1.8 spg.). Senior forward Clare Fitzpatrick is second on the team in scoring (12.8 ppg.) and rebounds (4.8 rpg.). DiMagno and Fitzpatrick rank third and fourth, respectively, in the Ivy League in field goal percentage. Spencer Lane leads Cornell in assists with 3.8 per game, which is second in the Ivy League.
Series History
Yale is looking for its seventh consecutive win in a series that dates back to 1974-75. The two teams have met 68 times. Yale leads the all-time series by a 46-22 margin, including season sweeps in the last three seasons. The Big Red owns a 13-12 advantage in the series since 2000, which includes seven straight wins from the 2000-01 season to the first meeting of the 2003-04 season. Yale is 9-6 against Cornell during Chris Gobrecht's tenure as head coach.
First Meeting of 2012-13
Megan Vasquez became the eighth player in Yale's history to record 1,300 career points with her first basket of the game and finished with 15 points to lead Yale to a 67-58 win at Cornell. Janna Graf scored 12 of her 13 points in the second half to help the Bulldogs rally from a second-half deficit. She also had six rebounds and five assists. Senior captain Allie Messimer finished with 10 points, while freshman Meredith Boardman finished with six points and a career-high 10 rebounds. Allyson DiMagno scored a game-high 23 points and grabbed 10 rebounds to lead Cornell. Spencer Lane finished with 10 points. With Yale leading 27-23 at halftime, the Big Red scored the first four points of the second half and used an 11-3 run to open the half to pull ahead 34-30 with 13:20 left in the game. Cornell led 37-32 when Graf scored five straight points to tie the game at 37-37 with 9:32 left. The teams traded points until Graf sank a pair of free throws to tie the game at 41-41, and then Yale used a 10-4 spurt to pull ahead 51-45 with 5:30 left. Back-to-back jumpers by Messimer and Sarah Halejian capped a 6-0 run by Yale that pushed the lead to 59-50 with 2:25 left, which was just enough breathing room to secure the victory for the Bulldogs.
DiMagno Guarding the Boards
Allyson DiMagno is averaging a double-double with 14.1 points and an Ivy League-best 11.3 rebounds per game. A 5-11 guard, DiMagno is on of just three players in the country shorter than 6-feet to be ranked in the Top 15 in the NCAA in rebounding. In Ivy League games, DiMagno is averaging 14.4 points and 11.9 rebounds per game. Her 11.3 rebounds per game average ranks 13th in the nation and leads the Ivy League by 2.7 rebounds over Princeton senior Niveen Rasheed. DiMagno has grabbed at least 10 rebounds in 12 games this season, and with 261 total rebounds this season, she needs just 27 more boards with five games remaining to become Cornell's all-time single-season leader.
Celebrating History
The 2012-13 season marks the 40th season of women's basketball at Yale University. In 1972-73, women's basketball appeared on the Yale scene as a club sport and became a varsity sport the following year. The Bulldogs made an impressive Ivy debut, finishing second in the League in 1974-75. In 1976, Louise O'Neal was hired as the first full-time women's basketball coach and Yale won its first Ivy League championship in 1978-79. The Bulldogs have won 444 games since their debut. A total of nine men and women have coached women's basketball at Yale, and there have been 35 women who have been named captain in those 40 seasons. In its 40 seasons, the women's basketball team has seen one player win Ivy League Player of the Year award (Tonya Lawrence, 1988-89), four Ivy League Rookies of the Year (Sarah Halejian, 2011-12; Melissa Colborne, 2006-07; Katy Grubbs, 1995-96; Mary Kalich, 1991-92), 18 players on the All-Ivy League First Team, and 17 players score more than 1,000 career points. Throughout the season, Yale will be celebrating the program's historic achievement.
Senior Salute
Megan Vasquez and captain Allie Messimer will play the final home games of their Yale careers this weekend. The senior pair will close their Yale careers with at least 53 wins overall and 31 Ivy League Ivy League victories. It is the most victories by a single class since the Class of 1996 and the most Ivy League victories since the Class of 1989. During her four years in a Yale uniform, Vasquez has established herself as one of the greatest offensive players to ever play for the Bulldogs. She currently has scored 1,353 points in her Yale career, which ranks seventh on Yale's all-time scoring list. Yale's leading scorer in each of her first three seasons, Vasquez was an All-Ivy League First Team selection following her sophomore and junior seasons, one of only six Yale players to earn First Team honors more than once in a career. Messimer is the 35th captain in the 40-year history of Yale Women's Basketball. During her four seasons, she established herself as one of the best 3-point shooters in Yale's history, ranking No. 7 on Yale's all-time list with 112 made 3-pointers in her career and No. 9 in Yale's history in 3-point shooting percentage (33.9 percent).
Record Night for Halejian
In Yale's 69-66 loss at Harvard on Feb. 23, Sarah Halejian cemented her place in Yale's record books. She scored 29 points on 12-of-15 shooting. The 29 points, 12 made field goals and her 80.0 percent field goal percentage all place second in Yale's single-game records. Halejian scored 22 of her points in the second half alone, which would have been enough to surpass her previous career-high of 21 points. Erica Davis '07 scored the most points in a single game when she scored 36 at Lafayette on Jan. 7, 2004. Davis and Megan Vasquez both scored 28 points in a single game, which was No. 2 before Halejian's outing at Harvard. Davis set the single-game mark on 15 made field goals, which is also Yale's single-game record. Halejian's 12-for-15 performance (80.0 percent) matches Melissa Colborne '10 for the No. 2 spot. Colborne was 8-for-10 at Columbia on Feb. 1, 2008. Michelle Cashen '12 is Yale's record holder with a 90.0 percent night at Colorado on Jan. 4, 2010.
Vasquez Milestone Watch
Senior guard Megan Vasquez continues her climb to the top of Yale's all-time scoring list. With her first basket of the game in the win at Cornell, Vasquez became the eighth player in Yale's history to record 1,300 points in a career. After scoring 15 points at Dartmouth and 13 more in the loss at Harvard last weekend, she now has 1,353 career points. She is just 18 points away from matching Seattle Storm co-owner Lisa Brummel '81 (1,371) for sixth place. Vasquez is 65 points out of the Top 5 with four games remaining. Melissa Colborne '10 currently holds the fifth spot on Yale's scoring list with 1,418 career points.
Dartmouth/Harvard Split
Despite a record night for Sarah Halejian, Yale dropped a 69-66 loss at Harvard to cap a road split last weekend. Halejian scored a game-high 29 points to lead Yale. Yale trailed by as many as 15 points in the first half but rallied to tie the game three times in the second half, thanks to Halejian, who scored 22 of her points on 9-of-10 shooting in the final 20 minutes. But after Yale tied the game at 56-56 with 4:59 left on a jumper by freshman guard Nyasha Sarju, Harvard used a 9-2 run over the next 3:16 to pull ahead for good. Yale cut the deficit to just three points on a 3-pointer by Halejian with six seconds left, but time ran out before the Bulldogs could tie the game. At Dartmouth on Friday, Megan Vasquez used a 9-for-10 effort at the free-throw line to score a game-high 15 points and lead Yale to a 66-55 win over the Big Green. Allie Messimer matched a career-high 14 points, while Janna Graf recorded her second career double-double with 13 points and 10 rebounds. Halejian added 14 points. Yale closed the first half with a dominant defensive effort that sparked a 19-3 run that gave the Bulldogs a 35-26 halftime lead. Yale held Dartmouth without a field goal and just three free throws in the final 6:28 of the first half. The defensive stand held firm until Faziah Steen's layup with 17:16 left in the second half gave Dartmouth its first points of the period. By that point, Yale had held Dartmouth without a field goal for a 9:11 span.
Bulldog Trends
- Yale's leading scorer, Sarah Halejian, has scored in double figures in 22 of Yale's 24 games. In her only single-digit games of the season, she scored nine points against Sacred Heart and seven points at Cornell.
- Halejian is averaging 5.7 rebounds in her last three games.
- Halejian is averaging 14.5 points per game in Ivy League games, which is third among league leaders.
- After scoring in double figures just six times in Yale's first 14 games, Megan Vasquez has scored at least 11 points in the last six games, averaging 13.5 points in that span.
- Halejian has started 41 straight games, including all 24 games this season and the last 17 games of the 2011-12 season.
- Since scoring just two points in the loss to Dartmouth on Feb. 2, senior guard Megan Vasquez has averaged 13.5 points, 3.8 rebounds and 3.2 assists over the last six games.
- Since she was held to just six points in the loss to Dartmouth on Feb. 2, junior guard Janna Graf has averaged 11.5 points and 5.8 rebounds over the last six games.
- Senior captain Allie Messimer is shooting an Ivy League-best 53.6 percent (15-for-28) from 3-point range against Ivy League competition.
Yale Athletics Pink Zones Postponed to March 2
Yale's two-day event that is now called "Yale Athletics Pink Zones," which was originally scheduled for Feb. 9, was postponed to March 2 due to the forecast of a blizzard. All events from the weekend, including the "Battle of the Badges" competition, will now be held during the final home weekend of the season. The annual fundraiser, in conjunction with the Women's Basketball Coaches Association's "Play 4Kay" initiative, is dedicated to raising awareness and donations for breast cancer research, with Yale's proceeds once again being donated to the Smilow Cancer Hospital. Last year, Yale hosted the most successful Pink Zone weekend since Yale started participating five years ago. The festivities, which will take place throughout Payne Whitney Gymnasium, will once again include a "Battle of the Badges" competition featuring the Yale and New Haven police and fire departments. Check YaleBulldogs.com for the full schedule.
From Way Downtown
Yale's 3-point shooting prowess is among the best in the nation, according to the NCAA. The NCAA released its latest statistical rankings on Feb. 25, and Yale is ranked No. 24 among the nation's 343 Division I schools in 3-pointers made per game with 7.2 3-pointers per game. Yale is No. 50 in the nation in 3-point shooting percentage (33.3 percent). On the defensive end, Yale's 3-point shooting defense was ranked No. 6 in the country. The Bulldogs are holding teams to just 24.8 percent.
Historic Sweep of the Empire State
Four players scored in double figures, leading Yale's balanced scoring attack to a 62-43 win at Columbia. The win gave Yale its first weekend road sweep of Cornell and Columbia since the 1997-98 season when it defeated Cornell, 61-56 in overtime, on Feb. 20, 1998, and Columbia, 72-56, on Feb. 21, 1998. It is also Yale's first win at Columbia since a 66-59 win on Feb. 1, 2008. The win follows a 67-58 win at Cornell on Feb. 15. Against the Lions, six players scored all of Yale's points, with Megan Vasquez and Sarah Halejian leading the way with 12 points apiece. Leading 16-11 with 13:38 left in the half, Yale used a 20-0 run over the next 9:50 to blow the game wide open and take a 36-11 lead with 3:48 left in the half. Yale later used a 17-1 run to pull ahead 60-39 with 4:05 left, effectively putting the game out of reach for Columbia. In the win at Cornell, Vasquez reached the 1,300-point milestone with Yale's first basket of the game and finished with 15 points to lead Yale. Janna Graf scored 12 of her 13 points in the second half to help the Bulldogs rally from a second-half deficit.
Ivy League's Road Warriors
Following its split at Dartmouth and Harvard last weekend, Yale moved to 4-1 on the road against Ivy League competition. Yale's Ivy League success on the road has been a key factor in the team's overall success over the course of the last three seasons. In the last three seasons, Yale 14-5 in Ivy League road games. In the 2011-12 season, Yale finished with a 16-12 overall record and an 8-6 mark in Ivy League play, with a 5-2 Ivy record on the road. In 2010-11, a season that ended with Yale's first-ever trip to the WNIT, the Bulldogs ended the season in second place in the Ivy League with a program-best 10-4 League record, including a 5-2 mark on the road.
Gobrecht Climbing the Yale Ranks
Yale's 67-53 win over Fordham on Dec. 4 improved the Bulldogs' overall record to 2-4 on the season, but the victory also gave Chris Gobrecht her 80th victory as Yale's head coach, moving her past Diann Nestel (79-78) and into sole possession of second place on Yale's all-time coaching victories list. After the road victory at Dartmouth on Feb. 22, Gobrecht now has 88 wins at Yale and is now 19 wins behind Cecelia DeMarco (107-127), Yale's all-time winningest head coach.
Scoring Points
- Yale has scored at least 75 points five times this season and is 3-2 in those games, with wins over Houston (84-82), Bucknell (82-62) and Bryant (78-65) and losses at DePaul (95-80) and at Northwestern (83-75). Yale scored at least 75 points on seven occasions in 2011-12, all victories (vs. Holy Cross, at FDU, at Houston, vs. Baruch, at Brown, at Dartmouth, vs. Cornell). In 2010-11, Yale scored 75 points only three times, all in victories (vs. Florida State, vs. Harvard, at Harvard).
- In the NCAA's Feb. 25 statistics update, Yale is ranked No. 24 among the nation's 343 Division I schools with 7.2 3-pointers made per game and No. 50 in the nation in 3-point shooting percentage (33.3 percent).
- Yale's 3-point shooting defense is ranked No. 6 in the country. The Bulldogs are holding teams to just 24.8 percent.
- Senior guard Megan Vasquez is 35th in the nation and second in the Ivy League in free-throw shooting percentage (84.9).
- Graf is second in the Ivy League in 3-pointers made per game with 1.9 per game.
- Yale leads the Ivy League in 3-pointers made per game (7.2) and defensive 3-point shooting percentage (24.8 percent).
- Yale is second in the Ivy League in offensive rebounds (13.4 orpg.).
- Yale is third in the Ivy League in scoring (64.5 ppg.), 3-point shooting percentage (33.3 percent) and free-throw percentage (73.2 percent).
- The Bulldogs are 4-7 at home this season and 6-7 on the road.
Next Up
Following this weekend, Yale will return to the road to close out the regular season with games at Princeton on March 8 and Penn on March 9. When Yale visits Princeton, it will be the 79th meeting between the two teams. The Tigers lead the series 48-30, and they have won the last nine meetings, with their last loss to the Bulldogs coming in a 56-54 decision in Princeton on Feb. 13, 2009. Yale will close the season at Penn with the hope of completing the season sweep over the Quakers. It will be the 72nd meeting in the history of the series, with Yale holding a 37-34 advantage. Yale is 7-1 over Penn in the last eight meetings and has not lost at Penn since the Feb. 14, 2009 (62-46).
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Be sure to follow the Yale women's basketball team throughout the 2012-13 season on Twitter (@YaleWBBDawgz) and on Facebook ("Yale WBB").
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ST. PETERSBURG -- Delmon Young has re-joined the Rays. Released recently by the Phillies, Young, 27, has signed a Minor League deal with Tampa Bay and will report to Double-A Montgomery.
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ST. PETERSBURG -- Delmon Young has re-joined the Rays. Released recently by the Phillies, Young, 27, has signed a Minor League deal with Tampa Bay and will report to Double-A Montgomery.
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Young agreed with Friedman's assessment of his maturity, making note of his youth while initially with the organization.
Tampa Bay, then known as the Devil Rays, selected Young with the first overall pick of the 2003 First-Year Player Draft. The top prospect made it to the Majors in '06 and stayed with the club until it traded him to the Twins after the '07 season. Young had finished second in the American League Rookie of the Year Award voting that year.
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Young signed a one-year deal with the Phillies this offseason. He posted a .261/.302/.397 batting line in 80 games, with eight home runs and 31 RBIs. The Phils designated him for assignment on Aug. 9 and released him five days later.
A career .283/.316/.423 hitter, Young has consistently fared better against left-handed pitchers, which could make him a nice fit as part of a platoon at DH.
"I think the biggest thing is as we look into September, Delmon has not only experienced the September-type atmosphere and excelled, but he's also really handled left-handed pitching over the years," Friedman said. "So I think it gives us another option to potentially leverage our roster in different ways. … He's still got strengths and abilities to still help us win games. … If he does come up, we feel like he'll have a chance to help us do that."
Friedman added that Young expressed how happy he was to have another opportunity with the Rays. Young will report to Montgomery and should be in the lineup by Friday night. Friedman said there is no timetable for him to join the team -- or guarantee that he will, but Friedman noted that they would not have signed him if they did not believe he could help the club. Friedman also said that the club will monitor Young's progress on a daily basis.
Young said he really didn't know how long it would take him to get ready.
"Just going to go out here and try and get some timing and rhythm," Young said. "And have my swing mechanics be the same. Could take 30 or 40 at-bats, depends on how everythng is going."
Bill Chastain is a reporter for MLB.com.


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Elected in 2004 and easily reelected in 2006, 2008, and 2010, Boren is one of the most conservative Democrats in the House. Although he had some disagreements with the Bush administration, he mostly supported their policies on Iraq and Afghanistan. More recently, he opposed the Employee Free Choice Act, called cap and trade "the worst piece of legislation I've seen" [1] and voted against the Affordable Health Care for America Act, major health care legislation that the Obama administration had been pushing. Additionally, he has received poor ratings from abortion rights groups [2] and is on the board of directors of the National Rifle Association. Boren declined to endorse Barack Obama during the 2008 Presidential Election.
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Slavery: still a thing.
This is way off topic from today's headlines, but I read a pretty fascinating story on modern slavery and thought I'd discuss it.
At least in terms of sheer numbers, there are more slaves on earth today than at any other point in human history. It's also the smallest percentage of slaves the world has ever seen, which really is more a result of booming overpopulation than it is a successful fight against slavery.
The consensus seems to be sweeping in just south of 30 million people that toil under it, be it through a gulag prison system, through human trafficking, lifetimes of indentured servitude and good ol' fashioned human-owning-another-human slavery.
For a long time the western world has euphemized it as it pervades in parts of Asia, the Middle East, and especially Africa, but this is starting to change. The Obama administration has broadened the word slavery to effectively include all of these different varieties of it, and the President has issued an executive order declaring no more federal contracting going to slavery-exercising operations, and he addressed Burma's storied history of slavery upon his most recent visit, in light of Burma's incredible starting of movement away from it.
The problem with slavery as it exists in our modern age is that it's driven largely by economic globalism, where places that exercise slavery obviously have pricing advantages that places on the other side of the earth are happy to profit from. A solution, then, could potentially come from these institutions with social awareness and social pressure. Some anti-slavery organizations are pressuring the biggest, baddest companies on the block who procure business from slavery-riddled pockets of the world. The piece below mentions that this practice was successful with Nike back a decade ago.
Of course, the piece also mentions that there are a lot of places on earth where this is not a silver bullet, where slave labor feeds a whole industry rather than one or two global corporations.
In those cases, social awareness seems to provide the least-foggy answer. There are precedents from the 1700s and 1800s that social awareness works against slavery (including America's own history), but I don't find them convincing because that was a different universe. In the 1900s, however, there was an entirely social awareness movement against the slavery in Congo which fed the entire world minerals for technology at the behest of Belgium. Once it was exposed to the world, Belgium freed the Congolese (more or less).
The key problem is, of course, that countries don't want to get left behind in an age of global capitalism. Until the world turns its lights on modern slavery more effectively, slavery makes good business sense sometimes.
It should be an imperative of the international community to empower UN, NATO, and the WTO to make dramatic moves to shine a light on modern slavery. These moves, I'd imagine, could look like trade sanctions, and then a modest amount of "modernization aid" for a decade if countries that still employ slavery abandon it -- that seems to have worked with Burma, and it's one of the reasons why I think Burma is the example of the 21st century, and a potential country that marks the turning of the tide that third world countries begin to join the modern world.
The piece below is a long read, but it's enlightening, and something that a bunch of us douches with laptops in air conditioned homes are rarely inclined to consider.
Slavery's Global Comeback
Buying and selling people into forced labor is bigger than ever. What "human trafficking" really means.
By J.J. Gould
Dec 19 2012, 7:44 AM ET
RANGOON, Burma -- Earlier this year, Ko Lin, 21 at the time, left his hometown of Bago, 50 miles northeast of Rangoon, along with a friend to look for work in Myawaddy, near the Thai border. The two found jobs there as day laborers loading and offloading goods, anything from rice to motorcycles, that were being illicitly transported by truck in and out of Thailand. After a month, Ko Lin had saved up the equivalent of about US$150 and decided to rejoin his family in Bago. Stopping first to pray at a local pagoda with, he and his friend met a super-amiable young woman who ended up pitching an opportunity to work in Thailand. Her uncle, she said, could arrange great jobs for them there.
Ko Lin was reluctant but bent to his friend's enthusiasm. The uncle turned out to be a trafficker who sold the two into forced labor in Chonburi, a city 60 miles east of Bangkok. They were taken there by an irregular route that involved walking through the jungle for eight days. Several weeks after arriving in Chonburi, Ko Lin was told he'd now be working at sea. When he resisted, he was knocked unconscious and woke up separated from his friend on a fishing boat in the Gulf of Thailand. From this point on, for months, he rarely if ever had more than two hours of sleep a night, always on a shared, cramped bed; he was given three meals only on days when the captain felt he'd pulled in enough fish to earn it; and when he was fed at all, it was always dregs from a catch that couldn't be sold on the market. His arms regularly became infected from the extended exposure of minor wounds to sea water. If he complained that he was feeling unwell, the crew would beat him. He was injured multiple times by heavy blocks or booms, once having to tend to a head wound with a handful of wet rice. Three months out, Ko Lin was rescued in a police raid.
Ma Moe, 34, and her husband lived in a suburb about an hour outside Rangoon, poor enough that on some days they had nothing to eat. A friend offered her a job as a domestic worker in China where, she was told, she could make between $100 and $200 a month. Despite her husband's objections, she decided to go. Near the border, her friend told her the trip would soon get rough and she should take some pills so as not to get carsick. The pills knocked her out almost immediately. When she came to, she was in a small village in China; she still doesn't know where. Kept with a few other women in a small house, Ma Moe was then taken around to different villages where she was offered up for sale as a "wife." After a failed escape attempt, when she was beaten by local police, a man from northern China bought her. By now, having spent a month-and-a-half as a Burmese commodity on a Chinese black market, she could hardly eat from the stress and was emaciated. Her owner was concerned -- he wanted a child -- so he had Ma Moe's blood tested; the results showed that she's HIV-positive; and he ended up abandoning her at the bus station. With no hope of being able to get back to Burma, she prayed to die. But a young newspaper seller, fending off an attempt by another apparent trafficker to get Ma Moe to go with him, called a police hotline for trafficking victims. The police coordinated Ma Moe's transfer to a Burmese anti-trafficking task force, and they ultimately took her home.
There's a plain-language word for the horror stories that Ko Lin and Ma Moe have survived, as anachronistic as it might sound: slavery. Contemporary slavery is real, and it's terribly common -- here in Burma, across Southeast Asia, and around the world.
The leading demographic accounts of contemporary slavery project a global slave population of between 20 million and 30 million people. The highest ratios of slaves worldwide are from South and Southeast Asia, along with China, Russia, and the former satellite states of the Soviet Union. There is a significant slave presence across North Africa and the Middle East, including Lebanon. There is also a major slave trade in Africa. Descent-based slavery persists in Mauritania, where children of slaves are passed on to their slave-holders' children. And the North Korean gulag system, which holds 200,000 people, is essentially a constellation of slave-labor camps. Most of the world's slaves are in sedentary forms of servitude, such as hereditary collateral-debt bondage, but about 20 percent have been unwittingly trafficked by predators through deception and coercion. Human trafficking is often highly mobile and dynamic, leveraging modern communications and logistics in the same basic ways contemporary business does generally. After the earthquake of 2010 devastated Haiti, Hispaniola was quickly overrun with opportunistic traffickers targeting children to sell into forced domestic work or brothels.
As pervasive as contemporary slavery is, it hasn't come clearly into focus as a global issue until relatively recently. There are a couple of big reasons why -- one having to do with the scale of the problem, the other with the idea of slavery itself.
The Scale
The International Labor Organization (ILO) estimates the number of slaves in the world today at around 21 million. Kevin Bales, of Free the Slaves -- the U.S. affiliate of the world's oldest human-rights organization, the U.K.-based Anti-Slavery International -- (and the author of Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy) puts it at 27 million. Siddharth Kara of Harvard's Carr Center for Human Rights Policy says more than 29 million.
That range represents a tightening consensus. In the 1990s, some accounts had the world's slave population as high as 100 million; others had it as low as 2 million. "It was nuts," says Bales. "I traced all these numbers back. The 100-million number, I finally found this guy in India who'd said it at at UN conference. I asked him, 'How did you get that?' And he said, 'I don't know, it was just a guess.' So nobody had the number."
Bales's 27 million -- which as a statistician he considers a "conservative estimate" -- is derived from secondary-source analysis. "It's still not great," he says, "in the sense that it's not based on random-sample surveys at the grass-roots level. We're doing that now, though, building much sounder numbers, and they're still coming out in the same range. ... So we're getting closer."
In which case, assuming even the rough accuracy of 27 million, there are likely more slaves in the world today than there have been at any other time in human history. For some quick perspective on that point: Over the entire 350 years of the transatlantic slave trade, 13.5 million people were taken out of Africa, meaning there are twice as many enslaved right now as there had been in that whole 350-year span.
The Idea
Some of what's obscured contemporary slavery, then, has been a matter of quantitative analysis; but some has been conceptual: In the West, and particularly in the United States, slavery has long settled in the public imagination as being categorically a thing of the past.
One consequence of this is that when people apply the idea of slavery to current events, they tend to think of it as an analogy. That is, they tend to use the word to dramatize conditions that may be exploitive -- e.g., terrible wages or toxic working environments -- but that we'd never on their own call "slavery" if the kind of forced labor we used to call "slavery" still existed. "In 1994, when I was in the United Nations Working Group on Contemporary Forms of Slavery," Bales recalls, "a group came in and said they wanted the UN to declare incest a form of slavery. And we were like, incest is incest; you don't have to call it slavery."
But there's an inverse consequence to seeing slavery as a thing of the past, too: It can mean having a harder time recognizing slavery when it's right in front of us.
Right after the end of the Cold War, people in Western cities -- in Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, London, New York -- started noticing something pronounced about migration patterns out of the just-collapsed Soviet Bloc: The "immigrants" were disproportionately young women and girls. I took no one long to understand that these were prostitutes -- or much longer to understand that they weren't operating freely; criminals were trafficking them out of Eurasia effectively as black-market goods, like opium or Kalashnikovs.
The dominant rhetoric that the coalition of Christian conservatives and anti-prostitution feminists who took the lead on this issue used at the time wasn't "slavery" but "trafficking for sexual exploitation." Around the same time, a movement started against sweatshop labor that developed its focus not broadly on the issue of forced labor but narrowly on the conditions of the sweatshops themselves, sometimes even just on safety issues within them.
Luis CdeBaca, the U.S. ambassador at large to monitor and combat trafficking in persons, sees both of these frameworks as inhibiting and, intentionally or not, ways to feel too comfortable about addressing the issues in question. "If we say the problem with domestic servants is that they're not covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act, and so let's just go out and make sure they get covered by labor laws around the world, we get to ignore, for example, the fact that domestic servants are being locked in and raped. It's not a wage issue; it's a crime issue. If we look at prostitution and we devolve back to the old debates about whether prostitution should be legal and regulated, should it be illegal and criminalized, we won't say, '... hey, why doesn't the 13th Amendment apply to a woman in prostitution just as much as to a woman on a farm?' Then we end up missing the reality of modern slavery."
Pattern Recognition
CdeBaca thinks we've been using euphemisms about slavery in our recent history scarcely less euphemistic than were "servant" or "peculiar institution" before the U.S. Civil War, noting current preferences for "gender-based violence" or "rape as a weapon of war" to describe what goes on in eastern Congo. "If rape becomes the more comfortable word than slavery," CdeBaca says, "you know slavery is a highly emotive term."
But if the president of the United States has nevertheless embraced the term "slavery," as Barack Obama now has with his speech at the Clinton Global Institute in September, you know it's also an emotive term whose time has come -- or come again. The State Department, meanwhile, answers the question "What is modern slavery?" by implying, virtually to the point of stating, that it now considers "slavery" the umbrella term for crimes of "trafficking":
CdeBaca understands the Trafficking Victims Protection Act and the Palermo Protocol that State mentions here, both dating from 2000, to be crucial preconditions for the change in social conceptions about human trafficking and forced labor that have followed. Usually the dynamic is the other way around, CdeBaca says: A social movement grows and, if it's successful, after 10 years or so, Congress passes legislation or the UN (or some other international body) passes a resolution. With contemporary slavery, more than a decade of governmental and trans-governmental initiatives have seeded the social conversation, which has in turn articulated an emerging consensus around the language of slavery.
CdeBaca thinks this consensus is hugely consequential, not just domestically in the U.S. -- where Obama has now both embraced the term "slavery" and issued an executive order to remove human trafficking and forced labor from federal contracting -- but globally. "The fact that we're able to come into a place like Burma, which has come so far so fast just in the last 10 or 12 months, with this unified message is wonderful," he says, "because the government here isn't going to have to unlearn those differences. When we talked to the government [on Friday], they were talking about forced labor and forced prostitution as though they're the same concept. We didn't have to talk through 'here's why you need to care about forced labor as much as you care about forced prostitution,' or 'here's why the girls in the brothels matter.' They got it. And I think it's because they come into this at this moment, now."
The New Abolitionism
It's to the not-modest credit of modern civilization that the awareness of slavery has always given rise to anti-slavery movements. Abolitionism today may be more complex than what went before it only because it has to be. Contemporary slavery is, as Ethan Kapstein wrote in Foreign Affairs back in 2006, "a product of the same political, technological, and economic forces that have fueled globalization" -- or as Andrew Forrest, the chairman of Fortescue Metals Group and founder of the anti-slavery group Walk Free, has it, "Slavery is the dark side of globalization."
In essence, organizations like Walk Free, or the Global Business Coalition Against Trafficking (gBCAT), want to harness the good, or at least potentially good, aspects of globalization to eliminate its most evil aspect. Forrest believes that it now makes maximum sense for global big businesses to integrate their risk-management strategies with their corporate-social-responsibility strategies and their procurement strategies, cleaning their supply chains of any involvement with forced labor once and for all. Forrest believes in the constructive power of potential shame, too, being focused currently on a campaign to recruit major corporations around the world to sign Walk Free's "zero tolerance for slavery pledge."
Projects like this won't necessarily be easy; in fact, their success will necessarily be a tough question. There are certainly precedents for it: Nike may be one of the most slave-free garment manufacturers in the world today, because it got hammered for its labor practices in the 1990s by a very successful campaign against it as a brand -- brand equity being a very important, very bottom-line issue for a company like Nike. But what if we're looking instead at a mining company that needs to procure concrete for railway tracks to get its materials out, and the best-deal concrete is made by slave labor in Abu Dhabi by some nameless supplier? There's no brand equity at stake there. Mineral extraction is a similarly faceless industry. We all know who makes our cell phones; few of us know who makes the tantalum and coltan that go into them. That doesn't have to be note of cynicism, but it does get at the complexity of the challenge in leveraging global business's better angels against its worst instincts.
There will meanwhile be new opportunities for political will against slavery, particularly now that Obama has used the word -- new legislative efforts, new instruments of international cooperation -- and there will be new opportunities to build important anti-trafficking capacities, with law enforcement, with victim care and rehabilitation, and so on.
And then there will be social-awareness campaigns -- which may represent the one strand of the contemporary anti-slavery movement skeptical observers are more inclined to be cynical about than they are about the leadership of global business. If you're tempted to think that way, consider before anything else that here in Rangoon, it's not only perfectly reasonable but a vital public-service announcement to say, "Kids, this is how you recognize it if someone's trying to trick you into slavery, and this is what you do about it ...." When I asked Ma Moe, who'd been sold into slavery by a friend, what was the most important thing she wanted people to understand about her experience, she lit up emotionally in a way she hadn't up to then, insisting emphatically on how crucial it is that people in Burma -- especially young people -- get the coaching they need to insulate themselves and their families against the risk of being trafficked, particularly given how sophisticated traffickers are at profiling victims and preying on trust.
Neither is any of this the hard part compared with the complex task of changing or putting an end outright to kinds of social norms that heighten the risk of capture by traffickers, particularly in contexts governed by the caste system or other forms of entrenched social hierarchy. Which aren't uncommon across South and Southeast Asia, and which can create barriers to human empathy every bit as powerful as what morally and psychologically enabled the open slave trade of the 16th-19th centuries.
On the global level, there are historical reasons why a heightened social awareness of slavery could prove more effective than we might first be inclined to think.
As Bales likes to remember, there have been three major anti-slavery movements in the modern era prior to the nascent contemporary one. The first was started in 1787 by Anti-Slavery International -- or as it was called at the time, the Society for Effecting the Termination of the Slave Trade -- in London. Twenty years later, the slave trade in the British Empire was finished. This movement worked entirely through social mobilization; in fact, it was one of the first major social movements in the West. The Society inundated parliament with huge petitions against slavery, 517 altogether. It passed around anti-slavery cameos that fashionable women wore in bracelets and pins. And it disseminated Thomas Clarkson's drawing of the Liverpool-based slave ship Brookes, illustrating the horrible reality that slaves were forced to cross the Atlantic packed together like sardines, lying in their own excrement and vomit, for months. This picture was extremely shocking -- and effective.
The second anti-slavery movement was marked by some of the most pivotal moral leadership in U.S. history, but it was also thwarted by a virtually total social division between the North and the South, and it culminated an enormous war that resulted in upward of three-quarters of a million deaths and new troubles for the United States' former slaves that have cast long shadows since.
The third movement is less well known but offers a precedent for contemporary abolitionism that may be in some ways as compelling as the first. This was a global movement, which included luminaries like Mark Twain and Sarah Bernhardt, against the enslavement of between 5 and 10 million people in the Congo as the personal property of King Leopold II of Belgium. The purpose of this enslavement was to feed new technologies, particularly pneumatic rubber tires. But the breakthrough for this movement was also thanks to new technologies: portable cameras that enabled abolitionists to do magic-lantern shows in big theaters across Europe and America -- a kind of documentary film before documentary films -- graphically demonstrating the routine physical mutilation of Congolese slaves who failed to meet their "rubber quotas," which truly freaked viewers out and helped mobilize the public broadly. After this anti-slavery campaign was able to show the photos it had captured, social indignation turned to outrage, and Leopold, who'd completely denied everything until then -- he could, because there was no proof of what he was doing -- gave up, ended the enslavement, and, in 1908, relinquished the Congo to the Belgian government.
Let's see what the fourth one does. The most optimistic view says that as massive as slavery is today, it's also on the edge of its own extinction, needing only the right push. If the global slave population is 27 million, it's still 27 million out of a total of 7 billion, making it -- and here's the paradox -- the smallest fraction of the global population to be enslaved ever. If slavery generates between $30 billion and $45 billion a year to the global economy, it's a big industry, but it also amounts to the smallest ratio of the global economy ever represented by slave labor and slave output. While slavery has grown in absolute terms, it's shrunk in relative terms, and so, the theory goes, it's increasingly vulnerable.
A possibly less optimistic but still hopeful variation on this theme -- well clear of the most pessimistic view, at any rate, which would be that slavery is simply endemic to global capitalism -- is that slavery isn't just growing more slowly than the rest of the world is; it's also increasingly toxic to the rest of the world; and it's increasingly toxic in ways that the rest of the world will be forced to defend itself against. The same interests responsible for human trafficking and forced labor are, after all, also responsible for fostering other types of crime, as well as the kinds of corruption that slave-labor operations need for survival. If developed countries let slavery go unchecked, it will threaten to corrode the bilateral and multilateral agreements, and the international rule of law, that the whole global economy depends on. If developing countries don't check it, it may or may not mean slower short-term growth, but it will definitely complicate long-term growth growth, or stunt it altogether, as outside investors bring more scrutiny and demand more transparency. In the meantime, the more visible an issue slavery becomes globally, the less inclined I'd be to forget some of the most consequential uses that mobile technology and social media been put to around the world in the last two years -- or to ignore the analogies between these uses and the tactics of the first and third modern anti-slavery movements.
The relationship between a country's tacit willingness to abide slavery and that country's risk of being left behind by the currents of global civilization isn't one that Burmese officials are necessarily inclined to discuss candidly. When I asked Brigadier General Khin Maung Si, chief of police and head of the human-trafficking office in the ministry of home affairs, about his government's emerging commitment to eliminating forced labor, he spoke only of poor economic conditions as a cause of slavery, not of slavery as a cause of economic stagnation. But it's a relationship that his government's new commitments acknowledge implicitly.
It's also a relationship that the leading exponents of the second modern anti-slavery movement were emphatic about and staked their political reasoning on. As The Atlantic's first editor, James Russell Lowell, wrote in the magazine's endorsement of Abraham Lincoln for president in 1860:
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Al-Jazeera reports:
Several hundred people have gathered outside the Libyan embassy in Britain once more to show their support for protesters, Jacqueline Head, Al Jazeera's online reporter in London reports. However this time a small contigent appearing to represent Hizb ut Tahrir were also rallying, calling for a sharia state to be installed in Libya. The group said they were there to show their support for the Muslims in Libya. Muftah Abdelsamad, a 57-year-old Libyan living in exile in Britain for 35 years, told Al Jazeera:
We call them the nutters, because that's what they are. We are Libyans. We are Muslims... but these people don't want democracy or freedom. What do they want, dictatorship? We always lived together - Catholics, Greek Orthodox, Jews. And we're all going to live together again."
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Dorm Decor!
How big will my dorm room be?
Can I bring in my own furniture?
What kinds of decorations am I allowed to use?
Can I have a microwave?
Will there be enough space for both me and my roommate to keep our things?
If you're anything like me, these questions, along with many others, are probably taking up most of your attention as your prepare to make the switch to college in just a few short months. Since I know how many people are nervous about moving to a new place and setting up a new space, I figured I'd dedicate this week's blog post to different room decorating options and ideas!
First off, I want to stress that you can litererally decorate your room in ANY WAY you can IMAGINE!
Every single room on campus comes with the same set of furniture: two beds, two desks, two dressers, and two desk chairs. Every room also comes with two closets, some with doors and some without. The beds can be kept separate, bunked, or lofted (which means the bed is raised as high as it would be if it were the top bunk, but without the other bed underneath it). If you get a simple set of bed-risers (usually fairly cheap at Walmart), you can slide your dresser underneath your bed to create a little extra space in the room! You are welcome to bring in any of your own furniture from home, too, depending on how much space you have. The actual room size varies a little bit from hall to hall, but not by much.
You are welcome to hang up decorations on your walls, so long as they won't leave any lasting damage after you take them down. There are some wonderful inventions out there that help you put posters up on the walls without leaving any marks, though, so it's not hard to decorate! Some rooms on campus come with carpet on either all or some of the walls, which is very handy because you can put tacks and nails in the carpet without fear of causing damage. A lot of students with the carpeted walls generally hang fabric over the carpeted section, which essentially allows you to color your room however you want!
If you get a single room, you can use all the furniture yourself. Some students choose to push both beds together so they can have one big bed. When I had a single last year, I slept in one bed and designated the other one as a couch for visitors!
I love walking down the hallways and seeing how many different ways students decorate their rooms. Literally, there are as many different set-up options as there are students on campus! Some roommates choose to keep their sides of the room completely separate, whereas others choose to arrange their furniture such that they completely share the space. I hope this has helped you get some ideas for what you might want to do if/when you decide to come to William Woods! Feel free to leave comments on here if you have any other questions or simply want to chat more about some of the options!
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