Genre: Drama / Musical / Romance
Rating: PG
Starring: Aamir Khan, Gracy Singh, Rachel Shelley, & Paul Blackthorne
Released: 2001

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Genre: Drama / Romance
Rating: R
Starring: Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz, Penelope Cruz, & Jason Lee
Released: 2001

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Macalester Students in Minnesota have recently been protesting Coca-Cola over the death of union workers at a Coca-Cola bottling plant in Colombia. They recently voted to ban all Coke products on campus, following the lead of Carleton, University of Michigan, and NYU. They claim that Coke is working to disrupt unionized workers in Colombia.

Never of course do they consider the possibility that in addition to being extremely dangerous in Colombia, there are other elements in Colombia that do not want organized labor. Pleas of mercy from Coke fall on deaf ears of those who's main argument follows like this: Multinational Company implies evil practices. Never mind the fact that union officials from all over the world have claimed that these proposed boycotts are unsubstantiated. These protests are being sponsored by an organization called, Killer Coke (clearly an unbiased source).

I particularly enjoy the quote by a student at Macalester: "People tend to feel helpless when confronting these multinationals," Forman said. "But the truth is that they need us, we don't need them. ...No union leaders have been assassinated in Colombia since this campaign began. That to me is proof we are having an impact."

Let us take this logic to another subject to show the absurdity. Everyday since I have been born, the sun has set after I have woken up, thus this is proof that the sun setting is dependent on me waking up. I wonder if I can take advantage of this power over the sun. I will now call myself, Apollo Kollmann.

Anyways, I do not think these protestors have fully thought about the conclusions if they preceed in banning Coca-Cola to the fullest extent that they wish. Thousands of union workers are directly and indirectly employed by Coca-Cola in the United States, none who would have jobs if Coca-Cola products were truly banned (Click here for a list of products produced by Coke). Some of these union jobs were even created by Cesar Chavez (think California grapes). I can't believe he wouldn't turn in his grave if he heard that left protestors cost his union workers jobs.

-Trevor

I have yet to read the DaVinci code, but I am yet undecided on whether or not it is worth my time to read after viewing the trailer (Just look at the graphic nature of the movie). The trailer contained action cliche after cliche (sorry for the non-accented e), and Ian McKellen reminded me too much of Gandalf to be anything but humorous. While the book was definitely popular, a recent trip to a forum discussing the Name of the Rose indicated that those who read both found the DaVinci Code much too simplistic in comparison. So I don't know, I shouldn't make these snap judgements, so I think I will sleep on my decision to read the book, and then to make the decision to see the movie.

-Trevor

You poor fools. I laugh at all of you who will lose one hour of sleep tonight due to Daylight Savings time. Even Indiana has fallen this year to accepting this practice (Thus making Arizona and Hawaii the last of the enlightened states). Of course I don't make this argument in the Fall, but whatever. Actually I was thinking of proposing a new system to help all of the sleep deprived. Instead of "Spring Forward, Fall Back", I was thinking it should be, "Spring Back, Fall Back". This would be adopting a policy similar to what the French do when fighting in a war.

-Trevor