Politics
Stop Blaming. Stop Complaining.
Got problems? Then by all means, heap the blame on the nearest available elected official and wait petulantly until your whims have been catered to.
March 5th, 2010
Alumni · Design · Interviews · Politics
Designing Obama
Sol Sender, leader of creative development for the Obama ’08 campaign logo, discusses his creative process
December 8th, 2009
Pedal Power
The male dominated culture of Critical Mass bike rides prompted a DIY activist movement for mass rides to include GLBTQ bikers and empower female cyclists…
November 29th, 2009
Alumni · Arts & Culture · News · Politics
A Manual for Relief
Art Therapy Department Chair Catherine Moon did not know about Global Alliance for Africa until she received a call from them in 2008. Shortly after, she was on a plane to Tanzania…
October 26th, 2009
Arts & Culture · Interviews · Politics
An interview with Allan Sekula
I think what we need to realize is that what we call our location is increasingly shot through with connections to the rest of the world, especially in a globalized economy.
October 2nd, 2009
Globalization, Globally and Locally
By juxtaposing the subjective and the mundane with the politically charged, Sekula succeeds in asking the visitor, “Where does politics lie?”
October 2nd, 2009
Glenn Beck: Derrida or Dirtbag?
Batty Fox News talk show host fancies himself an art historian and critic
October 1st, 2009
Arts & Culture · Politics · School
SAIC War Vet Joins Chicago’s Vet Art Project
By Brandon Kosters
SAIC undergraduate Matthew Ping, 26, is a veteran of the war in Afghanistan. He is one of many veterans who uses the creative process as a means of coping with his experiences serving overseas.
“When I came to SAIC in January [2009], I was looking for veteran artists. I was hoping to start a [...]
October 1st, 2009
Hot Air Illinois
2010 Illinois candidates: who are these guys anyway?
August 31st, 2009
Obama · Politics · Social Issues
What has Obama done for us lately?
It may be difficult to sift through the heaps of extraneous media coverage to discover Obama’s successes and failures.
August 31st, 2009
Capitalism vs. Charity
Why I love Capitalism
by Aurélie Beatley
I love capitalism because I’m a soulless consumerist wretch, and I’m not sorry. Actually, I love capitalism because I’m familiar, first-hand, with the soft-core socialism that permeates most of Europe, and that system is idiosyncratic, at best.
See, my grandparents live in a small provincial capital in Southern France called Aurillac, [...]
April 13th, 2009
The Olympic Host: Divergent Visions for Chicago
Will the Chicago Summer Games be revitalizing or parasitic?
March 10th, 2009
“Becoming Edvard Munch” at the Art Institute of Chicago
“Becoming Edvard Munch: Influence, Anxiety and Myth,” currently on display at the Art Institute of Chicago, takes a radical new approach to the retrospective exhibition in its ingenious curation of artist Edvard Munch (1863-1944).
March 5th, 2009
Camp Hope: How Not to Organize a Protest
Freezing temperatures and blizzard conditions did not deter the determined group of activists. However, the message may have been lost.
February 8th, 2009
The Blago Breakdown
Following rumors of rampant extortion and suspicious hiring practices in the preceding administration under Governor George Ryan, Blagojevich’s message of reform played well with an exasperated electorate.
February 5th, 2009
CHANGE comes to the Arts?
No other candidate presented a program that went into as much detail as Obama’s, and if he manages to implement some of his campaign promises the outcome could be very encouraging for both art education programs and working artists.
February 5th, 2009
The benefit of hindsight
Reflecting on SAIC’s relationship with diversity
February 5th, 2009
Mock the Vote 2008 - video
“Mock the Vote 2008″ explores this by allowing International Students, Staff, and Faculty and anyone else who is not eligible to vote in the American election to have their opinion “count.”
November 20th, 2008
Somali Rape Victim Stoned, Disabled Women Face Greater Risk of Abuse
13-Year-Old Somali Rape Victim Stoned
In late October, a young Somali girl who had reported being raped by three men was accused of adultery and stoned to death before an audience of 1,000 spectators. The local Islamist militia controlling the city of Kismayu operates under Shariah law, a system under which rape accusations must be supported [...]
November 19th, 2008
Manipulating a Republic
A how-to guide on swinging democratic elections in your favor through the disenfranchisement of minority voters
by Aaron Hoffman
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Have you ever felt that the views of the upper-class majority are the only legitimate views? Do you ever find yourself wishing you could just force everyone to agree with you? Have [...]
November 17th, 2008
