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Alice Lyons

Seven "New" Not-so-Deadly Sins

Alice_lyons A couple of weeks ago, several news organizations released the story that the Catholic Church had updated the Seven Deadly Sins by adding seven more. Organizations such as Fox News, the London Telegraph, and BBC News reported that damaging the environment, genetic manipulation, abortion, excessive wealth, contributing to socioeconomic gaps, pedophilia, and drug dealing were the seven “new” deadly sins. These new sins were based on an interview  with Archbishop Gianfranco Girotti in L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper, where he stated that because the world is becoming increasingly global, sin takes on a new global dimension. News organizations jumped at this information and reported that the Vatican had altered its well known list and added these seven new more global sins.   

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V is for Vagina, and Violence

Alice_lyons Many of our readers may have seen the signs advertising Eve Ensler’s upcoming speech and book signing here in honor of V-Day. Many students new to Vanderbilt may also have wondered, “Who is Eve Ensler?” and “What the heck is a V-Day?”

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Cornelius: Worked Hard, Played Hard

Alice_lyons Edward J. Renehan Jr’s new biography Commodore: The Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt is the first major biography of our university’s founder in almost seventy years, and that is the most interesting aspect about the book. It reads like three hundred pages of the most boring paragraph of a U. S. History textbook, touting fact after uninteresting fact, and, as with a textbook, the reader may find himself rereading the same sentence twenty times without realizing it, or reading ten pages before noticing that he has not grasped a single word of what he just read.

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Dining In: Is Choice Really Lost on Campus?

Every Saturday, I check my Commodore card and I am amazed by how much rollover money has been added. $36.12, $39.13, $30.10. The numbers keep adding up, and although more rollover money seems like a good thing, I can’t help but think about the $4.24 that my mother loses every time I miss a meal. Clearly, it would be a much better deal for me to use the seven meal-plan, or even the fourteen, so that I wouldn’t be paying for unused meals. But because I’m a freshman, I don’t have a choice, and I won’t have a choice for another two and a half years, now that an eight meal-plan will be initiated for juniors.

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    For almost a year, we've been pussyfooting around with moving over to WordPress, and finally, Christmas break 2008 has afforded me the opportunity to do so. So, here we are now, at Vandy Right. With this post, we formally bid auf wiedersehen to Right-Wing Vitriol, the fine title we operated under for almost a year, in favor of something a little more sturdy and traditional. We are, after all, conservatives.

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