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Native Americans Criticize Bush's Silence

"The fact that Bush preempted his vacation to say something about Ms. Schiavo and here you have 10 native people gunned down and he can't take time to speak is very telling," said David Wilkins, interim chairman of the Department of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota and a member of the North Carolina-based Lumbee tribe. "

RE: Vital Statistics--Congratulations!

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!! You have been randomly selected to be featured in an upcoming Campus Connections Newsletter! To obtain your prize and gain recognition for the hard work you do please answer the following questions and return them to me via e-mail no later than April 3, 2005.
You can use the format to answer the questions, or submit your own creative style! The only requirement is that this is a fun assignment for everyone! Have fun! And thank you for participating!
Questions Name: Joseph Baruch MacGregor Miller Warren
Program Name, location, your role, and why: The Bellevue Community College Academic Service Learning program, Bellevue, Washington. I am one of the two coordinators. The other is Betsy Foley, with whom you may already have some acquaintance.
Places you've lived and or traveled:
I have lived in the following cities:
· Seattle, Washington (1979-1998) (2004-Present) Notes: arrogant, hip, non-smoking, sexy, moderately leftist
· Carson City, Nevada (2003) Notes: rural, un-sexy yet starkly beautiful, meth-crazed, chain smoking, dentally desperate, annually on fire, fanatically right wing
· Reno, Nevada (2004) Notes: less sexy than Seattle, more teeth than Carson, gambling addicted, moderately right wing
· Olympia, Washington (1998-2002) Notes: hipper – than – thou, non-bathing-non-shaving nonetheless extremely sexy, chain smoking for affect, fanatically leftist, if you can get Calvin to remember your name you are automatically famous
Interesting places that I have visited:
· Cornwall; I saw a production of Pirates of Penzance in Penzance
· Chicago; Dianna used to live there, so I spent all of the money that I should have spent on tuition, food and text books on near biweekly plane tickets
· Florida; last year’s National Service Learning Conference. I only bring it up because it is the only time I have been further east than Chicago
· Victoria, BC; Dianna and I drove there at 19 just to see the Murder City Devils.
Favorite book/movie: . :
Books:
My favorite books are Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, and Don Delillo’s White Noise, and to a lesser extent Underworld. That is not to discount my love of the work of David Sedaris, the Harry Potter series, Vonnegut, specifically Cats Cradle and Breakfast of Champions, the brilliant essays of Sarah Vowell, the 2 novellas of Steve Martin, and the unclassifiable work of Edward Gorey. Also I love a couple of things that I had to read for college like Gladwell’s The Tipping Point (READ THIS BOOK) and Susan Faludi’s two incalculably apt contributions to the discussion of gender, Backlash and Stiffed. But mostly I just watch movies.
Movies:
· The Graduate
· Rushmore
· Night of the living dead
· Batman Returns
· The Dark Half
· Fight Club
· Hedwig and the Angry Inch
· Leone’s “Dollars” Trilogy
· Ocean’s Eleven (the Sinatra flick, not the Clooney flick)
What motivates you: . love, fear, money, insecurity, terror of disappointing people, sex, rock ‘n roll, food, adrenaline, boredom, candy, desire to make parents proud, justice, good bourbon, bad movies, family, beauty, friends, the desperate, Ozymandian hope that I will leave something positive behind when I die, and an ambiguous sense of personal spirituality. I think it is similar to most peoples’ lists.
Something, quirky or unique: I write too much on “getting to know you” surveys. I try to merge “Honest” with “Clever” with the hope that people will read it and feel they know me and like me, but I usually come off as narcissistic.
Add your own question: If there's nothing out there, what was that noise?
Jody Burpee CX Program Assistant Washington Campus Compact

I am getting old

But despite this obvious fact, many of my favorite musicians have new
music holding 3 of the top 5 songs on a local radio station's
playlist. Observe:

1: Weezer - Beverly Hills
2: Nine Inch Nails - The Hand That Feeds...
4: Garbage - Why Do You Love Me

CitySearch Profile - Frequent Seahorse CD launch

I found this profile on CitySearch and thought you'd find it interesting. To read the profile, just click on the link:

Profile: Frequent Seahorse CD launch
Web page: http://adelaide.citysearch.com.au/profile?id=49644

Regards

Joseph
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From: lsnicket
To: Joseph Baruch Warren
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 11:48:29 -0500

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25

The number of times five can be subtracted from twenty five is
theoretically infinite, but honestly, I can't imagine how anyone could
do it.

The number of times you can subtract 5 from 25 is equal to the number
of 25s you have to start with. If you only have the one 25, you can
only subtract 5 once, because after that you don't have 25, but only
20.

So if you only have the single 25, you can only subtract 5 the one
time. However, I have subtracted 5 from twenty-five many, many times.

When I was a freshman in college, I got my first ATM card. I was sick
and tired of writing checks for everything, and I was excited by how
much more quickly I could purchase DVDs and CDs on line.

It was really quite convenient that all of the ATM machines on campus
belonged to my banking institution, the Washington State Employees
Credit Union, and that they delivered money in denominations as small
as five dollars.

Every couple of days, I would go to one of the machines and I would
withdraw 25 dollars from the money left to me by my grandparents so
that I could pay for college. I would take 5 dollars and buy a pack
of cigarettes, some mints, and a highly cafinated soda. I would then
have 20 dollars left for food, or text books, or fancy fountain pens
with which to take notes on American Social History and draft long
winded and pretentious essays based on those very notes.

As I said, I did this fairly often. And I had plenty of 25s to start
with. As the the bright college days flew by, the accounts full of
fresh new 25s eroded away.

So, slowly I ran out of 25s from which to subtract 5. The economy
turned. I couldn't find anyone willing to replace the accounts full
of 25s and 100s and 15s etc. that I had spent my college career
emptying.

In the dark year following my graduation, I sought ways to subtract as
little as possible from zero. The debt I managed to accrue in that
unfortunate time is another math problem entirely, and would therefore
be better addressed in seperate trivia questions in future
newsletters.

A suggestion from Betsy for the Talent Show

Betsy just suggested that we could do that classic Campfire skit /
Who's Line improv game in which people pair up, person one puts his
hands behind his back, and person two works as person one's arms.

The skit is something straightforward. "Oh, I am going to shave and
brush my teeth" or "What a good day to cook a spaghetti dinner for 17"
or anything else that leads to a great big mess.

If we all paired up, we could have a HUGE mess. We could do a much
grander scale skit, like working on the line in a ketchup factory, or
a pie eating contest at the fair, or a soup-filled-balloon fight, or
maybe the last supper. Think big!!!