September 2005 Issue


Che Guevara: The Man Behind the Head

   Joe Malchow '08

For Cubans living in America, Che Guevara represents every reason they fled their Communist native land. That’s why Cuban-American groups shoulder the load of countless protests whenever his ratty mug threatens to adorn modernist art galleries and otherwise-pure white t-shirts. At UCLA, for example, Professor emeritus Sara Lequerica de la Vega confronted her administration when the Fowler Museum of Cultural History decided to mount an exhibition called "Che Guevara: Icon, Myth and Message". She wrote emphatically that, “The revulsion of Cubans to this event is as valid and honest as would be that of the Jewish community if confronted with the idealization of Adolf Hitler.”

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June 2005 Issue


The UN: Corruption and Babel on the East Side

   Joe Malchow '08

In the movies, as in reality, horror comes when evil rocks the otherwise peaceful citadels of our lives. And sadly, horror abounds on this Earth of ours; it encircled all during the Second World War. The unthinkable cruelty of those years–bombs, gas, guns, and pens–was, in one man’s words, “an investment in peace.” To the Marshall tune of 341 billion dollars, the United States of America purchased futures at a time when ‘bullish’ was forgotten and ‘optimism’ was outmoded.

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April 2005 Issue


Who Let The Blogs Out?

   Joe Malchow '08

Weblogs, or blogs for short, are undeniably in the national consciousness this year. Journalists have denounced blogs, the lexicographers have embraced them, and the data-hungry masses do not quite know what to make of them. Certainly, traditional information outlets—radio, television, and print—have been quick on the draw to marginalize this new medium as little more than networked propaganda. But the public isn’t buying that verdict just yet.

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