Dispatches

If you’re here because you’re trying to find the SGA President Milan Michail’s response to the No Contest story, I’m sorry to tell you that she has refused to comment, citing the way the article was handled and the last minute nature of the request for an interview.

A certain Icelandic songstress is up to her mischief again. Known for her wild and sometimes surreal music videos, Björk came out of the craftworks with a new music video, shot in 3D, for her upcoming single, “Wanderlust.” The video has been long slaved over by the people at Encyclopedia Pictura.
Out of the blue, Björk […]

Wikileaks, a portal for anonymous publication of secret or suppressed documents was shut down yesterday by order of a San Francisco court judge. Apart from the First Amendment issues of such an order, the block is ineffective, taking down the wikileaks.org web address but not it’s IP address (the title of this blog post), allowing […]

A female resident at the Riverside Residence hall was mugged outside of the dorm at 1 AM on December 13th while walking back from a night class. The female resident was knocked to the ground during the mugging, and her bag was stolen. Several residents at the Riverside reported hearing the sounds from […]

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It was a bright cold day in October and the National Mall had been homesteaded overnight by what appeared at first glance to be a solar power plant but on closer inspection turned out to be twenty houses built by twenty-five colleges from four countries, the commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and thirteen states. A […]

More to come later, but for now please look at some of the photos of our team’s OPEN House.

Dispatches will be taking a little trip to DC to cover the Solar Decathlon this weekend. Expect a quick blog entry or two over the weekend, though the flickr feed will probably be more up to date.
—Bill Peters

That was President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran (caricatured above), addressing students at Columbia University, with probably one of the more unexpected statements about Iran you’re likely to hear. He was evasive on most questions, and those that he wasn’t he couched his answers to his audience — speaking about academic inquiry when asked about the […]

Somewhat of a tempest in a teapot by protest standards— the protesters were mostly confined to B’way and 116th, and I’d be surprised if there were more than a thousand or two. But though they lacked in number, they did not in diversity as they ran the gamut from anti-war (usually in orange), anti-Iran, anti-Zionist (including […]