Bwog's back from our Memorial Day sojourn, and we hope you had as lovely a weekend as we did. Here now, the Spring 2008 issue of AdHoc, distilled for your reading pleasure.

The Tibet Question, Answer

The CSER Beginnings, Future

The Manhattanville Question, Answer, Beginnings, and Future

Patrick Cockburn's Muqtada Read, Reviewed

Birth Control Control

It's All in the Game

The Center for Buddhist Studies

The roundtable is a particularly topical one: Last week, for the first time since 1989, ethnic Tibetans publicly demonstrated against Chinese rule. China has since expelled all foreign media from Tibet and shut down access to the internet. Discrepancies in the purported number of Tibetan deaths have also arisen, with the Tibetan government claiming nearly a hundred dead, and the Chinese government saying just seven.

As the semester's coursework has come to an all-too-brief halt, now is as good a time as any to learn about something you might not have known about before. (And it's only going to get more press coverage as the Olympics approach.) Plus, Robert Thurman's voice is hypnotic. Trust us.