Niko Bowie
Niko Bowie
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Bowie: Coming together slowly
Even before Barack Obama was elected president, there was an open question of whether the 2008 election would have an immediate positive impact on race relations in the United States. As I watched the election results come in last Tuesday from the basement of Yale’s Afro-American Cultural Center, I thought I had an answer: “No.”
Bowie: Time to fight a new prejudice
Historians will likely attribute George W. Bush’s successful 2004 reelection campaign at least in part to anti-Muslim fear after September 11. But might they also credit Barack Obama’s success so far to the same phenomenon?
Bowie: Yale's quest advanced
Bowie: Yale's quest advanced
Bowie: Flaunting the SAT fetish
Some people are turned on by whips and leather. And as I learned from last Thursday’s News’ View (“Yale should keep the SAT — but only for now,” 9/25) on the SATs, even standardized tests can get some Yalies aroused.
Bowie: Redistribute Credit/D/F
I’m still looking for that final science credit to graduate.
‘Self-segregation’ myth affects all societies
If you really want to make new friends, I don’t think the first place you should look is in a tomb. You may, unfortunately, have to go outside.
Rankings fever obfuscates value of a Yale education
Tomorrow, some of the most important questions many of us face as Yale undergraduates will be answered when U.S. News & World Report releases its issue of “America’s Best Graduate Schools 2009.” Will Harvard Law School upset Yale this year? Will the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine finally admit more than 6.2 percent of its applicants?
In ’08 spectacle, the Super Bowl meets its match
CNN may equal politics, but what if had to face competition from none other than the Worldwide Leader in Sports? Imagine: Rather than sticking to the dry and wonkish standards of its cable news rivals, ESPN inaugurated a Ballot Bowl 2008 that promised to make an actual sport of the presidential campaign, from Super Tuesday II to the Big Game in November.
Commercial value commands music industry
Songs have a fantastic capability of serving as little time capsules full of context and emotion. It’s not a new idea; the 1962 novel “A Clockwork Orange” featured a character, Alex DeLarge, who was driven to ecstasy and even suicide after hearing Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.
Hillary: An ideal of masculine hegemony
Thanks in large part to President Bush, the job description for president might read, “Wanted: hyper-masculine warrior who can aggressively protect the homeland from evildoers and illegal intruders — boardroom experience a plus.”