Tag Archives: Jhoany Benitez
JVP Speaks: Wikileaks & Transparency
In the wake of the latest Wikileaks disclosure, how much should we, as people, know? Is there such a thing as knowing too much? Or are some things best left unsaid?
JVP Speaks: Giving to Charity
Peter Singer spoke at Rutgers last week, giving his renowned talk on donating to charities. In this weeks JVP Speaks, the Johnsonville sounds off on the event and the argument.
JVP Speaks: What to Say to Apparent Racism
You’re out and about or in and around, just doing what you do when you’re one or the other, and, ka-pow, you’re knocked aside the head with a seemingly racist comment. What do you do?
Provocative French Cinema ~ Jhoany Benitez
I love watching films. More specifically, I love watching French films. For decades, French cinema has challenged taboos with its raw illustration of nudity, sexual acts, and surrealist story lines. The results have left me amazed, filled with laughter, surprised, horrified, saddened, and confused. Plenty of people, however, avoid French Cinema for the very reasons I’m drawn to it. Perhaps they don’t want to be shocked. But I think that sometimes pushing boundaries can feel very exciting.
JVP Speaks: Nature vs. Nurture
Through out human history people have been discussing the true nature of ‘human nature’, whether we are intrinsically good, bad, or just a blank slate. Taking into account the schools of thought relating to human nature as well as your own personal experiences, what do you think is the true nature of ‘human nature’?
Release ~ Jhoany Benitez
With my bare hands,
I come for you.
With my long, desperate fingers,
I reach within
And silently
Come for you.
JVP Speaks: What is Civic Duty?
Project Civility is in full swing at Rutgers, whether you noticed it or not. The initiative’s aim is to get people to ask questions about what it means to be part of a community, about how people should treat one another, and what can be done to improve the quality of people’s treatment of others. Of course, the whole initiative is voluntary rather than mandatory, which means that, chances are, one likely won’t be prompted to participate in Project Civility in one’s day to day. At the very least, I’ve yet to be prompted, so I figured that I’d prompt myself and my fellow JVPers to participate ourselves with this week’s question: Should America have a notion of civic duty if it doesn’t already? Why or why not? If so, what should it entail?
JVP Speaks: Are you going to vote?
Hello and welcome to JVP Speaks! In this soon-to-be-a-recurring-feature, contributors will kick-off a discussion on a particular topic by writing on a single prompt. This week the JVP asked itself: are you voting? Why or why not? Feel free to answer the question yourself, comment on any of our answers, and to generally get the ball rolling on this important topic! Here’s what we had to say:
For B ~ Jhoany Benitez
In my dreams, I am merely but a restless bee who,
Gently prickles you,
My budding tulip,
And savors the golden nectar concealed between your velvet skin of red.
Inside JVP: An interview with Jhoany Benitez by Ben Kharakh
I’ve seen a lot of people pass through the JVP’s Internet doors, so I don’t start to think of someone as a regular until they’ve made a sizable amount of contributions. I first noticed Jhoany at meetings in the Spring of 2010, but it wasn’t until this Fall that she’d really proved herself to be one of JVP’s MVPs. If the JVP is a sports team, then Jhoany is whatever position one who is more familiar with sports than myself would reference in order to make an effective analogy
