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Mandating the Mandate for Change The Tiger & the Kangaroo Man's Noble Path:
A glimpse into Hinduism
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Table of Contents Meiji
pg. 3
Panorama
pg. 4
Sketch
pg. 6
Eye On
pg. 7
Fuse
pg. 8
but Seriously
pg. 13
I was born in Queens, New York, but I lived in Jamaica for the greater part of my life. I love to swim, go for walks, and stretch. My toughest subject has always been chemistry. My favorite food is cheese tortellini with alfredo sauce. I see myself as someone who loves life and is really open-minded. I would love to travel to document animals all over the world. I AM‌
AMERICA
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Meiji
Mandating L the Mandate for Change
By C.Y. Grant
et’s talk about voting. Personally, I can’t. Age is not the issue (I turned twenty in February)—rather, it’s citizenship specifically that I haven’t got it. I moved to America when I was ten from another former colony of Great Britain, although I won’t tell you which one just yet. I do like to think of myself as an informed person however, and so despite not being a voter, I have spent some time observing the process, the beast in its natural habitat, as it were. What I have seen is sad and sorry and en-tirely unsurprising: the American voter is a vanish-ing species. As of the last census, taken in 2000, there are 281 million men, women and children be-tween the shining seas; 186 million people are eli-gible to vote. Of those, 130 million—about sev-enty percent— are registered to vote, and of that 130 million, about 111 million actually took the plunge and cast ballots in the last presidential election, held in 2004. Reduced to percentages, 60% of all voters and 85% of registered voters took part. And 2004 was a good year. Voter turnout for presidential elections, generally the best-attended of all, has dropped as low as 48% in 1996 years, and usually hovers around 53%. Such numbers are appalling but not unique. Australia faced a similar problem in the early twentieth century. In 1922, the voter turnout at the Australian general election for prime minis-ter was 58%. This so distressed the lawmakers of that country that mandatory voting laws 3
were on the books by 1924 after only ninety minutes of de-bate on the issue in Parliament. Ever since then, voter turnout has been hovering at 94%. There are thirty-two other countries with mandatory vot-ing laws on the books, although not all those countries have enforcement mechanisms in place, which Australia does. Polls indicate that about 70% of Australians are in favor of manda-tory voting, and although there are usually one or two abolishthe-law editorials around election time, there has never been any serious effort to repeal them. At this point, I imagine I have lost a signifi-cant portion of my readership. Americans aren’t really into the idea of voting being a matter of law. Whenever I talk about it with my friends (also very informed sorts of people), I usually get looks that would translate something like, “I’ll for-give your strange opinions because I know you’re from another country… and I’m sure I don’t know how they live there.” I would ask that you hear me out though, just this once, although you have every right to disagree afterwards. The first American objection to mandatory voting is the contention that voting is a right and a privi-lege, not a matter of law, not something you’re forced to do. It’s a part of the inalienable feeling of citizenship wrested from the British in the 1770s. Very well. Answer me this: in a country whose his-torical bread and butter is the triumph of democ-racy over monarchial obnoxiousness, how can so few people actually take ownership of the proc-ess that made them who they are? (Continued on page 5)
Panorama India calls for talks on Tibet
NEW DELHI: As Lhasa burned and Tibetans protested in places as di-verse as Sydney and Delhi, New Delhi broke its informal taboo about China and Tibet by prescribing that Beijing should open lines of dia-logue to resolve the crisis in Tibet.
Sudan and Chad Leaders Sign a Peace Treaty that Could End Attacks in Surrounding Regions
Ancient Inca Temple Discovered
And in other news…
LIMA, Peru (AP) -- Archaeologists have discovered the ruins of an an-cient temple, roadway and irrigation systems at a famed fortress over-looking the Inca capital of Cuzco, according to officials involved with the dig. The site had religious as well as military aims, including 11 rooms thought to have held mummies and idols. The temple on the periphery of the Sacsayhuaman fortress casts added light on preInca cultures of Peru, showing that the site had religious as well as military aims, according to researchers.
Priest is Sentenced to Life in Prison for Rwanda War Crimes
ARUSHA, Tanzania (AP) -- A U.N. tribunal has extended the sentence of a priest to life in prison after upholding his war crimes conviction for ordering militiamen to burn and bulldoze a church with 1,500 people inside during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda’s ruling came after Rwandan Roman Catholic priest Athanase Serombawar appealed his 2006 conviction, a tribunal statement posted on its Web site late Wednesday said. He was originally sentenced to 15 years in prison. The tribunal is trying the alleged masterminds of the 100-day Rwan-dan genocide in which more than 500,000 minority Tutsis and moder-ate Hutus were killed by Hutu extremists.
Mexico and Cuba Restore National Ties
HAVANA (AP) Cuba and Mexico declared their once-chilly relations fully restored on Thursday, and Cuba’s foreign minister said he will soon deliver a formal invitation for Mexico’s president to visit the is-land.”Relations between Mexico and Cuba are fully normalized,” Cuban Foreign Minster Perez Roque said after meeting with his Mexican coun-terpart, Patricia Espinosa. Mexican President Felipe Calderon has said he wants warmer ties with Cuba - which historically have been good but soured under his predecessor, Vicente Fox, who feuded publicly with Fidel Castro.
DAKAR, Senegal: President Omar Hassan al-Bashir of Sudan and President Idriss Déby of Chad on Thursday signed a peace agreement meant to end cross-border rebel attacks in a region that includes Dar-fur.
Gotta Love those Democrats… A Michigan congressman wants to put a 50-cent tax on every gallon of gasoline to try to cut back on Americans’ consumption. Polls show that a majority of Americans support policies that would reduce greenhouse gases. But when it comes to paying for it, it’s a dif-ferent story. Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., wants to help cut consumption with a gas tax but some don’t agree with the idea, according to a new poll by the National Center for Public Policy Research.The poll, scheduled to be re-leased on Thursday, shows 48 percent don’t support paying even a penny more, 28 percent would pay up to 50 cents more, 10 percent would pay more than 50 cents and 8 percent would pay more than a dollar.
Vermont towns vote to arrest Bush and Cheney
Early this month voters in two Vermont towns approved a measure that would instruct police to arrest President George W. Bush and Vice Presi-dent Dick Cheney for “crimes against our Constitution,” local media reported. The nonbinding, symbolic measure, passed in Brattleboro and Marlboro in a state known for taking liberal positions on national issues, instructs town police to “extradite them to other authorities that may rea-sonably contend to prosecute them.” Vermont, home to maple syrup and picture-postcard views, is known for its liberal politics.
“OOO, There they are…”
Drunk driving mom tried to hide keys. Mom-of-three was caught twice over the drink-drive limit while she had two young children in the back of her car. And when Jennifer Lowery, 38, was nabbed by police she hid her car keys in an “intimate place” in a bid to convince police she had not been driving. But a strip search at a police station exposed her lie and she admitted drunk driving – the second time she has been caught over the limit. 4
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The American Revolu-tion started with a few men who pro-tested Parliament’s right to tax the colo-nies without allow-ing them voting rep-resentatives in that body. Their conten-tion was that a gov-ernment cannot call itself legitimate if it does not oper-ate with the support of its population. With the kinds of numbers going up in this country, our government is hovering on the borders of bastardy. For you to decide you have something better to do on election days seems immensely disrespectful not only to the founding fathers but even more so to the men (and surely women) who died to give you that representation. Some gentle coercion is perhaps not amiss.
The objection has been raised that candidates having to appeal to the middle ground will gradu-ally become more and more similar in terms of positions. This may be the case, but it is my personal opinion that a little centrist politics won’t do anyone any harm. The situation would be bound to change; public opinion, if unfavorable, would force it to do so. That’s the beauty of democracy. An-other contention is that mandatory voting gives a slight edge (in the 2-3% range) to liberal parties be-cause the lowerincome segment of society will tend to gravitate towards them. This may or may not be a problem depending on your political beliefs, but again, I feel that if a conservative candidate is a bet-ter fit for the country at the time he or Additionally, American citizens have cer-tain expectations she is running, he or she will be elected. of their government, like de-cent public schools and roads, tax rebates and the like. But if you don’t go out to A mandatory voting system is also only plausible if it is vote, how can you honestly consider yourself entitled to enforced. In Australia, this is generally achieved through these things? “Quite easily,” you think to yourself, “I pay moderate fines (the range is $15-45) which are not imposed taxes, you crazy foreign national… and if I’m paying for if you have a good rea-son for missing out on your vote, it, I’m entitled to use it.” I agree com-pletely and would such as illness or a car breakdown. The other major append that voting is as nec-essary to a government’s potential flaw in mandatory voting are donkey votes, when ability to function as taxes—and very few people question a person who doesn’t like any of the candidates decides inthe validity of mandatory taxation. Why should voting stead to write in their own personal choice, which could be be dif-ferent, especially since it more than anything else anyone from Ralph Nader to Mickey Mouse. This problem determines what taxes you’ll be paying and the amounts could be solved by adding a final box on the ballot of No in which you’ll be paying them? Candidate Acceptable, which vote should be counted along with everybody else’s, with an accompanying procedure to If those are the ideological arguments, there are also hold an-other general election as soon as possible should significant practical points to be made in favor of a the NCA win. mandatory voting system. If voting is a matter of law rather than choice, can-didates can focus on issues instead At this point, I feel that I’ve said my piece. Those are my of mobilizing their support bases. The issues are after arguments for mandatory voting, and maybe you agree all what they will be occupying their time solving once and maybe you don’t, but at least if you’re reading this elected. Additionally, candidates being forced to appeal to paragraph, you read my whole article and heard me out, the entire American popula-tion are candidates that have to and that I appreciate. If you agree, great—we should talk. appeal to the middle ground, relieving the pressure to cam- If you don’t that’s great too. Just for heaven’s sake go out paign on sensitive or po-larizing issues like flag-burning or to the polls when the time comes and make your piece of abortion that just make people angry. Debating whether difference in this world. I’ll thank you for it. or not abortion is murder won’t relieve the national debt but candidates are forced to bring up these sorts of issues in order to mobilize the highly-impassioned fringes of their parties. Partisanship is painted boldly in red, white and blue with each party pulling the most extreme and ideologically-appealing arguments off the shelf to prove how different and galvanizing they are. Cooperation becomes an ever more distant dream on Capitol Hill, and more Americans are so disgusted by the political process that they decide to quit, which only makes the problem worse. It’s a vicious cy-cle.
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Sketch
Man’s Noble Path: Hinduism
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n ocean and 8,000 miles away lays the exotic soils of the second most populous and seventh largest continent on the planet--India. With so many people, it is no surprise by the number of its diverse religious sects, branches, and even cults, ranging from Buddhism, Jainism, Islam, Sikhism, Christianity, Judaism, Zoroastrianism, etc. But, one of the downsides of India’s rich and unique religious culture is that it is also a very strange and foreign culture to many Americans. Because of this, I felt inspired to discuss one of my favorite countries and also what I believe to be one of the richest traditions in the world. The hardest decision, though, is where to start. After much decision, I decided that perhaps the best place to begin is with the largest and incredibly diverse branch of Hinduism. Hinduism, the world’s oldest religion, dates back to one to two millennia ago. Born in the mysticism and philosophy of the Vedas texts, Hinduism is a complex religion that devotes to the belief of gods and the ultimate liberation of one’s self. This creates a dualism between the importance of the gods in one’s life and also striving beyond the gods into the plane of Nirvana. Because of this, Hinduism is an incredibly dualistic (and also very unfamiliar) religion with polytheistic, monotheistic, and even atheistic themes. Polytheism is reflected in the devout and almost whimsical worship of the hundreds of hundreds of gods and spirits present in Hinduism. Monotheism is reflected in the worship of Brahman, the most important of the gods. Finally, atheism is reflected in the realization that the self-liberation from suffering (Nirvana) surpasses the gods and that, ultimately, the gods become meaningless. Like Christianity, though, Hinduism strives to spiritually transform man in order for him to reach the greatness of the beyond. The path of spiritual release lies within four principles: liberation of the spirit (moksa), religiously influenced social order (dharma), material value and success within the world (artha), and desire (kama). These four principles not only help the Hindi to seek liberation but also to live and interact with the world at the same. “… the Hindu strives to reach his destiny, which is to change body into soul, to discover the world’s potentiality for virtue, and derive happiness from it” (351). The goal of striving towards Nirvana is also where perhaps the most well known concept of Hinduism, karma, plays its role. The pursuit of Nirvana is obtained through good and “karmatic” acts that allow the soul to transcend to a higher level in the next life. Over time, the soul will eventually ascend to the realm of the gods and then finally into the release from suffering, Nirvana. How this liberation is obtained, though, is divided into two branches. Liberation is gained through two main ways—liberation through the gods or self-discovery of the relation between the “atman” and the Brahman. The first branch consists of the Trinity. Though it is not totally equivalent to the Catholic Trinity of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, the doctrine of Shiva, Vishnu, and Brahman is like
By Julia Higgins
Christianity in the fact that worship is based on a personal rela-tionship with a god and not self-discovery of a state. For example, the Trinity consists of three beings that control the functions of the world: Shiva is the destroyer, Vishnu is the creator, and the ultimate, Brahman, is the maintainer. Moksha, or liberation from the cycle of death and rebirth, is obtained through worship of Brahman, and atman is maintained through belief. This train of thought, though it’s not monotheistic, is like Christianity because it creates a personal relationship with a supreme being and centers worship on prayer and belief. The second branch is the more monotheistic view of the two. Instead of discussing the supreme of Brahman as god, it is seen as the ultimate state. Brahman or the “One with-out a Second,” represents “atman” or, in Western thought, the soul. By realizing our relationship with Brahman and realizing that the atman within us is equivalent to the ultimate plane, we can unite with Brahman and end our cycling of death, birth, and rebirth. Unlike the first branch, this view is much more personal as the believer slowly unveils the core of himself and lets forth his inner Brahman. Another very unfamiliar concept to American thought is the concept of the caste system. Originating from a story of creation, the caste system has made up an important part of both Hinduism and the culture of India. Though present day India is much more liberal, the fundamentals of the caste society still have a strong presence in Indian culture today. Besides social influence, caste is important for its religious value. It is a form of ritual. Ritual is fundamental to Hinduism because it allows the performer to focus less on managing life and slip into the practice of routine. It is a sanctuary for the believer that allows them to ease into the methodical and free their minds from the present and focus their energies on the next plane. But why is any of this important? Why ramble on about Hindu practices? Firstly, understanding the principles of one of the world’s major religions not only gives us a peek into India but also into a world very different from our own. This exposure is perhaps the best element for not only our own self-discovery. Looking into something foreign brushes us against practices that often force us to pause a moment and decide our reactions to them. Our evaluations and reactions to these situations help us not only discover ourselves by question-ing what we believe, our morality, our social conventions, our traditions, the casual and familiar, etc. but exposure is also essential to the growth of our own culture. Secondly, different cultures give us a point of comparison to our own culture. Being aware of these ideas allows us to be conscious of how we live our lives and also what we can do to make the quality of our lives better. I feel that educating yourself and being able to push outside the box is extremely important not only speaking from an academic view but also a humanitarian and a pacifistic view. My motto: Strive for knowledge but, in your stride, realize what it is to be human. Look around and across from yourself one day and realize that anyone of those persons could have been you.
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EYE ON:
The Tiger & The Kangaroo
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he name Kevin Rudd is not a familiar one. He could have been someone you went to grade school with, the kid who sat in the back of Intro to Econ and never spoke, or the guy reading Keynes on the bus last week. To a small segment of the world population, however, Kevin Rudd, his name and person, is of paramount impor-tance. Kevin Rudd is the new Australian prime minister.
By C.Y. Grant
are essentially the same as Howard’s were, even though Howard is a Liberal (Republican) and Rudd a Labour (Democratic) party leader. The biggest factor of change in Kevin Rudd is his face—in other words, it isn’t John Howard’s. But what stands out to me about Kevin Rudd, what makes him the subject of my article today, the reason I wanted you, the reader, to know that he exists, is his flu-ency in Mandarin Chinese. Rudd studied Chinese history and literature at Australian National University starting in 1976 (interestingly enough, the year of Chairman Mao Zedong’s death), the result of a child-hood fascination. He joined the Australian diplomatic service, and after spending part of the eighties in Sweden, was posted with his wife to Beijing. He loved it there. He spent several years in China before return-ing to Australia to pursue his political goals, with the result that Australia now has a prime minister fluent in one of the world’s most complex languages.
He was elected just a few months ago, unseating sixtynine year old incum-bent John Howard, who led Australia from 1996 until this election, a period of more than ten years. I, a native Australian, re-member standing in line at the polls with my parents to elect this man (they both voted for him, incidentally). There are several in-teresting things about Kevin Rudd. He’s something of a political nerd, someone who had to work to make himself appealing to the ocker voter, the typical Aussie bloke. He’s also a devoted Christian in a fairly secular country with fairly secular poli-tics who has made no bones about the influence his faith has on his ethical dilem-mas he faces as a The value of his ability cannot be underesti-mated. If politician. Although he was elected as the face of change, you know anything about the geography of the Eastern a new man for a new decade, his positions on the issues Hemisphere, you know that Australia is much closer to 7
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FUSE
Be Inspired By Your Dreams By Valencya Taylor
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any times in life, no matter how large your goals may be, how vast the venture you are in pursuit of undertak-ing, or even while attempting tasks that appear as small and minute in nature, we all get tired sometimes. It is moments like the aforementioned where we tend to seek inspiration; Inspiration to create, inspiration to take an-other step, and inspiration to simply move on. As I think about my own experiences as a young lady who has mastered the ability to produce a creative writing piece on command, I have in fact hit that wall of numbness, not the typical brick wall of not knowing what to write, but that sneaky, deceitful wall of the most detestable name, FEAR. In the midst of fear, soon follows confusion, and before you know it you find yourself in a debacle of inter-critical mess. Yes, mess. You know exactly what I am talking about. The mess that stifles your movement and will not al-low you to take a step forward; you’re sinking like you are trapped in quick sand. You find yourself in that place where you over-analyze and tell yourself what everyone else will think about you before you even ask any questions. This is the mindset that only allows you to prepare for rejection instead of acceptance from the world or even better, praise. This is the kind of praise that may only be acquired from sharing your unique talents with the world.
Who cares about the possibility of rejection anyway? Every successful individual recognizes the need to take risks. If you desire to have more, you must play the numbers game. What’s the numbers game you ask? The theory behind working with numbers shows that you have to expose yourself to more people in order to increase the probability of receiving a positive response with any endeavor. SO reality check! No, it is not time for you to compare yourself to what you see on television nor complain about how saturated or bland your environment may seem. It is not even time for you to gripe about how much work is involved. True success involves hard work. It is not up to you to look around, listen around, taste around, smell around, or even feel around to be inspired by some outside force or entity. It is time for you to peer deep into your future, press your hands beyond the realm in which your two eyes are able to see, and grasp onto a strong look at who you are going to become, yes are, not want to become, and Be Inspired by Your Dreams. When there’s nothing else left remember in the great words of Artemis Limpert, successful entrepreneur and life coach, “If you can’t go back, you must go forward, and if you must go forward then failure is not an option, and if failure is not an option, then you will succeed.” So go for it and Be Inspired by Your Dreams! 8
When people ask where I’m from, I tell them I was born and raised in Atlanta, GA but my family is from Cali, Colombia. I love my culture, there’s some great food and the some key attitude characteristics that I have derived from my family. I don’t speak Spanish but I understand it and speak Spanglish very well! My past times and hobbies include outdoor, hi-adventure sports, but more generally anything handson and creative. I AM…
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Asia than Europe, than America, than all the traditional power brokers. Our closest foreign neighbors are Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, Sin-gapore, Thailand, Vietnam. During World War II, the Japanese were about two inches from invading be-fore they were driven back by combined Australian and American naval forces. The Asian nations are in our backyard. In America, you go to Cancun for spring break—Australians go to Bali, one of the Indo-nesian islands just to the east of Java. Our economies are also highly connected. Australia has enjoyed sixteen years of solid economic growth since 1992, and outside domestic policies, growing ties with China have played a very important role in that growth. China is Australia’s third-largest trading partner and second largest market for export, mostly in raw materials like coal, iron ore, wool, and crude petroleum which the Chinese need to fuel their rapidly-expanding industry. There is also a significant Chinese expatriate population in Australia—Chinese is the second-most-spoken language. Between Eng-lish and Chinese, Kevin Rudd could probably hobnob with more of his constituents than any other politician before him. Or he could just go to China and talk to Hu Jin-tao, the Chinese premier. It wouldn’t be the first time. At a recent conference, then-PM John Howard stood by awkwardly as Hu and Rudd yukked it up in the most comradely fashion. Good for Rudd—great for Hu. That must be a rare sensation, being able to communicate with a Western political leader in his native language. I imagine he enjoyed it immensely. I know I would have. I’d be happy if I didn’t get funny looks when I refer to the boot of the car (the trunk) or the necessity of finding a shopping trolley (cart). And both my American friends and I are speaking English! .
lynchpin in persuading China to do or at least do partially whatever it is that America and the Western European leaders want her to do. The key to that is Kevin Rudd. This is the kind of advantage in world politics that most American presidents can only dream of. Granted, most American presidents don’t need the extra push to be the biggest kid on the playground, but an American leader who could, say, have a con-versation in French with proAmerican French presi-dent Nicolas Sarkozy would surely do a great deal to rehabilitate America’s reputation abroad. Knowl-edge of a foreign language proves conclusively an awareness of and a sensitivity to the world beyond your borders, which latter quality American politics has been sorely lacking in the last eight years particu-larly. And while I doubt that upon perusing my arti-cle, Hilary Clinton will immediately send out her chief aide to Barnes and Noble for the Learn Mandarin Chi-nese in Ten Easy Lessons CD set, Kevin Rudd can give all of us something to think about.
This can only be a good thing for Australia. Whatever you think about Communists—love them, hate them, think they’re misunderstood—China is nevertheless the last great (nominally) Communist na-tion in the world, and also on its way to becoming one of the most powerful in spite of it. Joseph McCarthy must be rolling in his grave. It seems to me that positive relations with China can only be a plus no matter how you look at it. This sort of relationship will also push Australia into a more prominent position in world politics as it solidifies into a Westernized counterpoint to the kind of pressure that America and the countries of Western Europe put on China to do X, Y or Z. Australia will also probably be the most impor-tant 10
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