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Come party at the final voyage of Lucy and her Lively crew of musicologists as they present The Milkman’s Union and PONCHOS - you’ll feel like you’re in a Zelda v. Skins (UK) dream!
Rumor has it that people often dance naked to PONCHOS. Just something to consider come Thursday night.
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i'm gonna get you
Tomorrow [Wednesday] the Skidshop is hosting an inventory reduction sale. It’s gonna be huge.* BC’s got the lowdown:
Everyone, this isn’t your ordinary sale, this is THEE sale. It’s the sale you’ve dreamed about. This is the white whale of sales……except you actually capture it. So I guess technically we can’t call it the white whale of sales. How about this…this is the Bigfoot of sales! Technically that’s wrong too, since there is no definitive proof of Bigfoot. I mean it’s not even a sale……it’s bigger than a sale. It’s an EVENT!! So how about we call it what it is…it’s the INVENTORY REDUCTION EVENT of the year and it’s on April 25th, and it’s gonna be massiiiiiive. Mega huge discounts on many items in the store. Stop in any time on April 25th and check the great money saving deals in the store.
Old Glory herself
I am so excited for this. Tomorrow night, a panel of World War II veterans from the surrounding area will be on campus, speaking to students in a forum presented by the Community Engagement course.
We’ve reached the stage where over a thousand WWII vets are dying every day, so this is an incredibly special opportunity to interact with and learn from men who have experienced things we can’t even imagine in our liberal arts bubble. One of the veterans was a prisoner at Stalag Luft III, a Nazi POW camp used as the basis for The Great Escape. There will be time for questions, but God help you if you ask something stupid like “was Band of Brothers accurate” or something.
I really can’t express how great this is going to be. Last year, a group of Vietnam vets came to speak to my history class and the stories they told were fucking riveting.
Wednesday, April 25th @ 6:30pm in Gannett Auditorium
Just a coupla wolves
Tonight, assistant editor at Gray Wolf Press, Steve Woodward, will speak in Bolton 280. In the words of the Skidmore Literary Society:
So, English majors, be sure to ask if he can get you a job/unpaid internship, and remember to refer to the recent Pulitzer hoopla.
Tuesday, April 24 @ 8pm in Bolton 280
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Ominous
Tomorrow, Norman Finkelstein will give a lecture entitled “How to Solve the Israel/Palestine Conflict” in Gannett. Finkelstein is a noted author and activist highly critical of Israel. He has written on the Holocaust and Middle East politics for over twenty years, coming to national prominence with his 2000 book The Holocaust Industry, which examined the alleged “misuse” of the Holocaust for political purposes.
I don’t like Finkelstein. Beyond the fact that he is a notorious publicity hound, he’s not a particularly good debater (see: Dershowitz/Finkelstein), and—whether he intends it or not—his accusations leveled against Zionists (a word easily replaced with “Jews”) are borderline conspiratorial and directly pander to the worst kinds of antisemitism.
Nevertheless, the lecture is sure to be lively, and if anything, it’ll get people talking on this campus that has so often been charged with political apathy.
If you can’t make the lecture tomorrow, here it is (I would assume) verbatim.
Tuesday, April 24 @ 7pm in Gannett Auditorium
Hey, maybe, right?
The Tang Party! The opening ceremony for Fun Day, if you will, and a blast in its own right. According to the poster I saw while taking my daily tour through the art studio (something I highly recommend), there will be music from some DJs, Third Nature, Yo Soy Milk and The Artifacts, as well as loads of art installations. This is always a fun time.
Come rain or shine (or potentially snow), we’ll be there, artsying out. Now would also be a good time to suggest that, no matter what the planet throws at us come Fun Day, everyone get out there and live it up, because you only get one a year. The colder it is, the more whiskey gingers you’ll have to drink beforehand, that’s all.
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Cuddle up with a lover/MacBook/text book and enjoy...
Hey, at least it looks like we’ll be able to have fires in North Woods again soon. Here’s to a sunny Fun Day!
Thinking those crazy thoughts
Dear Skidmore,
I hear you like smoking weed sometimes. You know, 4/20? Here’s the thing, though. It’s all about 4/19.
On April 19th, 1943, Dr. Albert Hofmann of Switzerland became the first person to ingest Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD, commonly known as ‘acid’). He had accidentally discovered the chemical in 1938 while researching the pharmaceutical properties of a fungus but, since he didn’t know LSD was a psychoactive chemical, he set it aside for 5 years.
But Albert’s fungus studies weren’t going that well, and he needed to try something new. So, on 4/19/43, Dr. Hofmann consumed what he believed to be a minimal amount, 250 micrograms of LSD. This was not a minimal amount – the average ‘dose’ these days is about 100 micrograms. Having never been exposed to the psychedelic experience, he was slightly disturbed. But, like a true scientist, Hofmann carried his experiment through to the end. An hour into his trip, Hofmann decided to go on a bicycle ride with his lab assistant. This is why April 19th is celebrated internationally as ‘Bicycle Day’. During his trip, Hofmann noted:
“… little by little I could begin to enjoy the unprecedented colors and plays of shapes that persisted behind my closed eyes. Kaleidoscopic, fantastic images surged in on me, alternating, variegated, opening and then closing themselves in circles and spirals, exploding in colored fountains, rearranging and hybridizing themselves in constant flux …”
So, Skidmore: I know you like to smoke weed sometimes. But maybe it’s time to diversify?
"Skidmore College students partake in smoking with a homemade contraption made up of two triple-filtration water-pipes, named Octavius S. Octopus II during Monday's 420 celebration on the Skidmore campus" -Saratogian
This Friday is 4/20.
I hope everyone saw Ms. Calhoun’s email where she reiterated the administrations position. Just know that campus safety will not treat this day differently. If you choose to indulge, do not do it in public.
Some of you may remember the 2009 4/20 fiasco, which caused a huge outrage in Saratoga and led to Skidmore landing at #2 on Princeton Review’s Reefer Madness List. It’s probably the highest we’ve ever placed on one of those lists but it seems unearned. There’s no way we should be edging out Boulder, Green Mountain or Hampshire.
So hang out and enjoy the day but keep the giant bong octopus out of sight.
Skidmore Professor of French Hédi A. Jaouad briefly appears in and introduces a short New York Times video in a series called “Life, Interrupted,” about his daughter’s battle with leukemia. Suleika Jaouad’s video in the Health section of the NYT documents the effects of her cancer on her relationship with her boyfriend. I don’t know much about relationships or unregulated cell growth, but I know a lot about watching videos on the internet and this one really touches the heart and maybe will make you loudly wonder who has been cutting onions.
