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Thursday, October 30, 2008

Chris Hedges Lecture



October 29 at 4pm Colony Ballroom - STAMP

Were you at the lecture Wednesday afternoon? What are your thoughts on the lecture? What most surprised you? What questions would you like to have asked Hedges?
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  • Journalist calls war a 'powerful narcotic' by James B. Hale (October 30, 2008).
    War is a terrible drug that can break you down and leave you begging for more. That was the lesson Chris Hedges imparted to a crowd of hundreds at a lecture about his book, War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, on Tuesday in the Colony Ballroom of the Stamp Student Union.
  • Not so radical after all by Kyle Garton (September 24, 2008).
    "... does Hedges really claim that war is always wrong? In his introduction, Hedges writes, "despite all this, I am not a pacifist. I respect and admire the qualities of professional soldiers. ... There are times when we must take this poison [of war]." Certainly Hedges spends the bulk of his book explicating war's insidious cultural effects, but Harris misses Hedges' crucial introductory qualification."

  • Defending free speech by Matthew Parrilla (September 17, 2008).

  • In defense of ROTC by Richard Garcia (September 16, 2008).

  • Book: A force that gives the campus meaning by Malcolm Harris (September 11, 2008.)