Political Spectrum is a nonpartisan, impartial discussion group that examines current events and issues in the political world. Political Spectrum strives to include members of all political convictions and to discuss all levels of politics from local to international.

Meeting Schedule

Political Spectrum meets on Monday evenings from 6:00 - 8:00 PM in room 908 of the Kimmel Center. Dinner will be served at each meeting. You can read a summary of the discussion of the previous weeks' meetings on this page. Join our listserv to recieve our weekly e-mail!

In addition to our regular, weekly meetings we have several special events planned for this semester. We hope to see you there!

Meeting of Monday, 9.27.05

Topics Discussed
- The ethical-ness (?) of Gary He's Girls of NYU Calendar
- The school's reasons for objecting to it (copyright stuff)
- The larger questions about feminism the project and others like it raise
- The op-ed about the project by Brianna Gorsky in the 09.27.05 edition of WSN

Topics Almost Discussed
- Israel's disengagement from Gaza
- The specter of China "stealing all of our oil"

Question of the Day: Which is the more thought provoking movie, "Team America: World Police" or "Southpark: Bigger, Longer, Uncut"? (Results: 6/2, respectively)
"Cannibal!" "The sky is blue, and all the leaves are green!" -Adam Waxman
Michael Jackson. -Ethan Mandel

Meeting of Monday, 9.19.05

Topic: North Korea's Nuclear Intransigence

We discussed:
- What course of action is appropriate for the US to take
- What other options the US has
- larger questions on the nature of super-national institutions, such as
- is there such a thing as international law?
- competing theories of international relations

We almost discussed:
- Israeli disengagement from Gaza
- fallout from hurricane Katrina

Question of the Day: Would you have interest in forming an “NYU Pirates-Ninjas Coalition” club?
Jesus! -Jonathan Bethune
Just ninjas. Pirates are working for The Man (or in the case of Elizabeth I, The Woman)
- George Kakouris
I know ninji-tsu. ARR, Matey! (that means ‘yes' in Pirate) -Anne Klingeberger

Meeting of Monday, 09.12.05

Topic: Supreme Court issues

We discussed:
- the nomination process - including issues surrounding an impending second Bush nomination
- Judge John G. Roberts' prospects for getting confirmed as Chief Justice
- the strategies of Senate Democrats, ways those strategies might help them or hurt them as a party
- Political implications of the confirmation hearings on Senators' presidential ambitions
- The value of the public confirmation hearing itself

other vote-getting topics were
- fall-out from Hurricane Katrina
- the Kelo vs. New London ruling
- the restructuring of the Japanese postal bureaucracy
- "The Media"
- America - Israel relations

Question of the Day: Michael Brown's next job?
Doing what he does best: judging the Miss America pageant [sic] from its new location in exotic Bismark, N.D. - Alex Lee
Santosh's pet gerbil. -   Riazul Islam
My pet gerbil/ undersecretary for Veterans' affairs. -Santosh Sateesh