Sir Q&A: Chris Ford of Christopher the Conquered

The man behind Christopher the Conquered sits down with Sir\u27s Cole Komma to talk about how he got his start, his new record and his time at Iowa State

Letters from a Bitter Roommate

Jenny* needed a roommate. She had recently decided to transfer to Iowa State and desperately needed a place to live. Her last available option was Regina*. Things went well for the first couple of days, but then “certain things got kind of weird,” Jenny says. “She introduced me to her friends as her best friend after two days of knowing her.” Jenny felt this was a little odd, but nothing to get upset about

The Board Border

Skateboard culture is a lot like high school—cliques rule. You have your technical skaters, your punk skaters blah blah and so on. Certain skateboarders fi t into these cliques and stay within them. When an individual does something diff erent—let’s say longboarding, for example—an openminded few may accept that person, but most will ostracize him or her

Sir Q&A: Chris Ford of Christopher the Conquered

The man behind Christopher the Conquered sits down with Sir's Cole Komma to talk about how he got his start, his new record and his time at Iowa State.</p

The Board Border

Skateboard culture is a lot like high school—cliques rule. You have your technical skaters, your punk skaters blah blah and so on. Certain skateboarders fi t into these cliques and stay within them. When an individual does something diff erent—let’s say longboarding, for example—an openminded few may accept that person, but most will ostracize him or her.</p

Letters from a Bitter Roommate

Jenny* needed a roommate. She had recently decided to transfer to Iowa State and desperately needed a place to live. Her last available option was Regina*. Things went well for the first couple of days, but then “certain things got kind of weird,” Jenny says. “She introduced me to her friends as her best friend after two days of knowing her.” Jenny felt this was a little odd, but nothing to get upset about.</p

Two Types of Labor Shortage

On the basis of field work in six Korean machine tool plants, two types of shortage are identified. One is a quantitative shortage, i.e. excess demand for labour, commonly found in small- and medium-sized plants. The other is a qualitative skills deficiency found in larger plants when existing employees do not have the sufficient skills they need to perform their jobs effectively. Low investment for skill formation, which is implicitly embedded in both the low-price product strategy and dependent technology policy, is mainly responsible for the skill deficiencies in large plants.