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Mocfc interviews are 30-minMte practice interviews witfi real recruiters and real feedback AAa^e sure to sign up online for your professional moefc interview- spaces are limited! Contact tfie Career Center for more information! February 2,8i00am - 5\00pm 209 KoIcIms Career Center 209 Koldus 845-5139 http =//agg ienet-tamu.edu/cctr MEDICAL SCHOOL TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1 7:00 PM MSC 206 SPONSORED BY: The Executive Council of Health Organizations AGGIELIFE Page 4 THE BATTALION Monday, January 31,1 Monday, January 31 ► JACOB'S LADDER U.S. must examine stance on censorshi[ Fish A topic that has frequented the halls of debate since the 15th century and will probably continue to do so well into the 21st, is censorship. Censorship, like so many un derwear catalogs, is a touchy issue. The mere mention of the topic sets tempers atlare and rais es some provoking questions. When is too much freedom of ex pression simply too much? Are we subject to the whims of Orwellian Thought Police? Do we see highly controversial things where there most certainly are not? And in doing so, do we fail to acknowledge true controver sy? Sadly, the accepted approach to these questions is to think on them for only a moment, shrug the issue entire ly, and go back to watching “Fraggle Rock” and eating nachos. But the true opponents of censor ship must evaluate their position and ask themselves whether society can ac tually handle the uncensored, unabridged truth. And moreover, does society even want the truth? Are we too comfortable in our instant mix, ready- to-serve, 10-minute buns, order-by-re- mot, lives to want otherwise? Con versely, those who support freedom of speech must ask themselves: are Amer icans legally obligated to allow the im pulses of human nature — the spittle of opinion and the sluggard of expression — to unfold, then slump into our couches? Are we contractually bound to a life of complacent acceptance? For the purposes of elaboration, let us ex amine the aspects of expression. Were Michelangelo or any of the masters exempt from the scrutinizing eye of censors? Michelangelo’s “David” and Rodin’s “Danaid,” al though nude, because they arc pieces of Internet art, are not considered to be things war ranting censoring; whereas if one were to make a nude sculpture today, three things would happen. One, everyone would suddenly hate Mayor Rudolph Giulliani. Second, questions of cen sorship would arise. And third, art critics would giggle wildly upon seeing it on display. Why is this so? Surely Michelangelo and Rodin were innocently making statements about the beauty and frailty of the human form. But are such statements reserved for only antiquity to claim? Regardless of whether modem artists remark that their aim is akin to Michelangelo’s, the ob vious question is: once a statement has been made, does it need to be made again? masters of artistic expression, those who rallied against the oppression of censorship, w ill be San Fransiscan per- formance/conceptual artists with their masterpiece "Juggling Chihuahuas While Standing in Melt ed t heese. And until that time, can we do any thing more than expect a straightforward perversion of the term “freedom of Obviously not This is why the term “statement” has been pureed, tumble-dried and shrink- wrapped into the cure-all “ex pression.” Whereas state ments are a dated and exhausted enterprise, expressions are somehow uniquely per sonal, precious and legally protected. The same applies to any form of artis tic expression: painting, music, cinema, literature, performance and so the list grows. And grows. Art. the crafty middle child of Amer ica, vying with its siblings “Industry” and “Charity,” is continuously search ing for new and shocking ways to get at tention. Centuries into the future, such “statement-mongers” as Michelangelo will have been forgotten and the true LA]) UB ofaETHER. Th Another heated topic spawntii i-*- T ensorship is banned books. No.fe pooT BALL are not the highlv anticipated n< Aerosmith and // Top. These art titles and the authors whose through censorship, have been zoned upon the face cards of deck o! "Don t-Cio-Ihere- Thev are wreathed in and eontrov crs\ hut simuitatWs bear that second face, that others which retains literary merit. They* the yellow flower in one haodi plunge the sword into their own w ith th But man to emph sum" is not t s\S t other. •ureU the society thataifo employ feces in his "02 same one that * r man lor an offa ild not ape, JEFF SMITH'till Hun expression"? Will even the gia be humbled by the thundcrir “now”? Will future generations masterpieces as “Daviagrid,” “I in Ghettotown" and “I )as Butt' Webster delines ccnsorsli act of examining films and pr terials to determine what mig jectionable. Webster goes on to defir man as one who keeps a tally though legal only in Amsterd hee! Aren't words fun! 1 Mas lt!< We nted > tong want simpledisscru tef verbalization.* ion the way we Be ». kolaches and n and sweet. I DON Jt'j Y*Kr 0*1— 1 fhival is a soph' English’ Continued from Page 3 drawbacks. Problems purchasers experi enced over the holidays included items be ing out of stock, late delivery, high deliv ery costs and limited selections. Online shopping seems as though it may pose a threat to storefront retailers. Jill Sawyer, a junior history major, experi enced a store that actually had to compete with its own Website. “I had to print out the ad and show it to them so they would give me the cheaper price,” Sawyer said. Buie, however, thinks the impact has been more with the consumers who now have more options, better choices and eas ier shopping. One advantage storefront retailers have is that many people are suspicious of purchasing online. While online shopping is becoming increasingly popular, it is not for everyone. “I don‘t like to shop online because I don’t trust anything that I can’t do in per son,” Carpenter said. Amid the rise of the Internet, the suc cess of online shopping shows that it is here to stay and has influenced our lives by means of communication, opportunity and convenience. With the current trends in technology and its fast-paced rate of change, there is no way to predict what tomorrow will bring. For those brave enough to venture into this new fonn of shopping, the days of trudging through the malls and waiting in long lines may be over. People in the News He Ono concerned about safety after attack on ex-Beatle t! station refers to$ ONO LONDON (AP) — Yoko Ono, widow of John Lennon, is reportedly con cerned about the safety of Lennon’s two sons after the recent attack on former Beatle George Harrison. ‘‘Knowing that our close friend and his family have been subjected to a violent incident I am, naturally, most concerned about the safety of Julian and Sean," Ono said in The In dependent on Sunday, a British newspaper. Ono has continued to live in the New York City apart ment building where she and Lennon lived with their son, Sean, when the star was killed in 1980 by Mark David Chapman. In an attack a month ago, Harrison received a seri ous knife wound that collapsed his right lung. His wife, Olivia, was scratched and bruised when the couple fought off the attacker inside their mansion 25 miles west of London. her permission w as Rosie 105. The companies have filed suit in federal coif manding that Entercom, the Pennsylvania-baseL that owns KRSK, quit using the “Rosie' nicknan* Station executives say the name honors Poru which is known as the Rose City. “There was no intention to be associated with F: O'Donnell," said Entercom's lawyer, Ramsey Alss: “We're not using 'Rosie' to create confusion ar our listeners." O'Donnell's lawyers say the station is capita- on O'Donnell's fame. |*£t' «Ol Almodovar, Benigni, Roth w Spanish Goya film awards O’Donnell files suit over station’s use of her name BENIGNi PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — This may be the Rose City, but handlers for af ternoon talk-show host Rosie O’Don nell say she has dibs on her name. Warner Brothers and Telepic tures, producer and distributor of O’Donnell’s show, claim that KRSK- FM is using her famous — and trademarked — first name without O'DONNELL MADRID. Spain (AP) — Pedro Almodovar won Best Director and Best Film for Todo Sobre Mi Madre (All About My Mother) in the Spanish Goya cine ma awards presented yesterday. The movie. Spain's candidate for a foreign language Oscar, is the sto ry of a single woman who experi ences the death of her son and goes in search of the boy's father. The film’s female star. Cecilia Roth, alsowoniF Actress. Almodovar recently won a Golden Globe foF movie. Roberto Benigni's World War II era movie La® Bella (Life is Beautiful) won the award for bestE: pean film. Organized by the Spanish Cinema Academy' Goya film awards take their name from the ISttiS tury Spanish painter. AFTER TH MAINTENA THAT II S0MET1 I Fish Camp 'OO Counselor Applications Now Available in the Fish Camp Office! Applications are DUE Wednesday. February 2. 2000 by 12:00 NOON in the Fish Camp Off ice Counselor Informa+ionals are January 26 A 27, 2000, at 7:00 p.m. in Rudder 601. Questions? Call 845-1627 www. spnngbreak. sopadre.com Full S<