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No. 12 May 19, 1998
Computer Center Staffing Debacle Leads to Upgrades
Make way for tech-dom: Bard’s Henderson Computer Resources Center revamps
Joe Stanco
Getting It Done, Tivoli Style
Mayor Marc Molinero is building a town his way. Don’t like it? Leave.
Jeremy Dillahunt
Firing Line Protestors Force Botstein’s Silence
Demonstrators interrupt debate on the ACLU by chanting, read demands, and
prevent the President from participating
Anna-Rose Mathieson
The Demands [of the Firing Line Protestors]
Bard Community Reacts to the Firing Line Protest
The Bard Community Expanding to Virginia
Rick Eichler
Drug Raids, Militias, and Whorehouses: Bard’s Glorious Past?
Wiles spins nostalgic tales of a bygone era
Nadja Carneol
Upcoming Events
Security Guard Daugherty: Baddest Man in the Whole Damn Town
B24 bombers and bull-riding prepared him for twelve years at Bard
Abigail Rosenberg
Car Caravan Keeps Pressure On Northern Dutchess Hospital
Nadja Carneol
Professor Albert Reid: An Interview
After nearly thirty years at Bard, he strikes out into new territory, heading for California
Rosalie Purvis
Record Reviews
Thirty Things That (May) Change Your Life
Joel Hunt
Cartoon
Mozart’s Don Comes to Annandale
The full score of the nearly four hour opera is sung in English with charm, bawdy humor and passion
Miciah Gault
Anatol Disappoints With Inconsistent, Dragging Delivery
Yet the performance had a few breathtaking moments
Joe Smith
Erotic Obsessions
Sardonic and Proud of It
Julia Louise-Dreyfus
Leah Zanoni
Images of the Spring
The Untimely Death of Phillipe: an Encomium
The French cuisine of the oft empty restaurant is no more—it is yet worthy of remembrance
Stephanie Schneider
Zine Scene
Firing Line Protest; Tips for Graduates
Lauren Nelson and Elissa Nelson
Classifieds
Israel’s 50th birthday: a Time for Appreciation and Celebration
Oren Castro
A Veteran Editor’s Swan Song: Words Fail Me
Meredith Yayanos
Bard College: A Place Where You Acclimate
Jazil Ghias
Springer Got Style: A <Bleep> Defense of American “Trash TV”
Scott Commerson
Letters to the Editor
Firing Line Demonstration Took Only Means Available
Susannah E. David
Clinton’s Recent Africa Tour Hardly Cause for Rejoicing
Michael Canham
Bot-man
Bot-man Meets His Maker
Chris Van Dyke and John Holowach