The Faculty of Social Science-

The Faculty of Social Science have many facilities problems. It is a good and solid building, but there aren't enough places to study. There is a librery, an auditorium, a cafeteria, some classrooms, laboratorys, and many offices. The problem is that some times all of this is not enough for the many students of this faculty, coming from four differents carreers: anthropoly, sociology, psicology and education.

The faculty is ubicated in Juan Gomez Millas campus, and it share space with others facultys like the Faculty of Cience, Filosofy, Arts, Bachillerato, etc. It is not a very big campus, but for now we can be all toghether with out colapsing.

In our Faculty (Social Science), the most important problem is the librery because is very small, some times you can not find a sit, and most of the time everyone is talking and making a lot of noise. That's not beacuse the student's are bad persons, it's because there is no study rooms for group work. Also, there are not enough books! Some times the book you need is in other faculty, with only one copy.

For this problem I suggest rebuilt the librery, making more rooms for all kind of needs (reading, workgroup), and reorganize the books of the university. It can't be possible that books of anthropology are in other facultys like Engineering!!!

If we improve the librery situation, the student would improve their study conditions, and the Faculty of Social Science will be more recognized and respected in the academic world. Then, once resolved this problem, we can do other things, like make more laboratories, a better cafeterea, and another auditorium, etc. We are always improving, that's true (for example, we have more and better computations rooms), but I think that the Librery situation is the last challenge of this magnitude of this Faculty, if we improve this, we should be at last a very good Faculty with an international standar.

Freckles!

Chile in the soccer worldcup!!!!! GO CHILEEE

Chilean national team has done something amazing, they classified to the soccer worldcup of 2010!! This is important because soccer is something very relevant for the daily life of people. This sport conglomerate persons, making them feel part of a "community". For example, the fans of a particular team have an assosiation of their own, help each other, go together to the games, and some times, they convert in to a fanatic group ("barras bravas").

In this case, the classification makes all people feel part of something bigger than them selfs. We all feel part of a group of "cheleans", and we all feel very interested about the performance of our team. The interesting thing, from an anthropological aproach, is that institutions like State, or Church, had tried along the history to make this "community" trying to come to this very strong feeling of "being part of", but they have never achieved this gold in large scale, but soccer did it.

Some other factors are important too, like the fact that in many years Chile was not classifying in the worldcup. Now we finally made it!

My favourite player is Alexis Sanchez, because is a very good player, with a lot of skills and carisma. And also, he is very handsome. ;)

To the worldcup, I think I want to watch it with many people, like in some street with a very big screen. I think it is more exciting!!!. Of course, If I can go to Africa it would be wonderful, but I do not think that it is possible.

The new finding in paleoanthropology

Hy! I find this articule about phisical anthropoloy, one of the most important findings of this times:

An international team of scientist found a new fossil skeleton in Africa, named Ardi, short for Ardipithecus ramidus. This fossil take place in the gallery of human origins, whit an age of 4,4 millions years. It much more primitive than the famous Lucy (Australopithecus afarensis).

This finding is important because, like the scientist said, Ardi open a new window for undestanding the first steps of human evolution. This species can give us more information about the moment that took our ancestors after diverged from our comun ancestor whit chimpanzees.

Ardi probably stood four feet, and weighed about 120 pounds. Is a foot taller tha Lucy, and twice the weith.

The brain was the same large than a chimp. It had agility to climbe a tree, but probably walked on two legs. Walking on two legs is a very important innovation in hominids, it seems that Ardy is the very first hominid who has the hability to do it, but not very efficiently.

Ardi is the result of 17 years of study nad hard work. The paleoanthropologist wrote in one of the many articles, that Ardi is full of anatomical surprises. The most significant surpise is thta Ardi give evidence fot suport the hypothesis that walking in two feets had evolved as an adapatation to life on grassy savanna!

Presidential Elections 09

Presidential Elections

Frei is too old in politics for trayin to be president. People want some new faces, and new ideas.
Piñera is too ambicius, and I have the impression that his is false. I dont trust him.
Marcos Enriquez Ominami is a not a serious option for anyone I think. But is a good thing that someone is braking the old sistem of to blocks of policts in Chile.

When you go to vote, you have to know where is your center of vote. Everyone has a number of a table that you have to look for. Then, when you are there, you have to do a line (in general, the line is very long). Then you enter in to a closed place and mark the person of your choise. Then you leave.

I dont know for what candidate I am going to vote for. But, my position is clear. I dont like how is the politics in Chile. I think that in this case, there is no candidate beter than the other one. I dont like the politics when you have to vote for the "better of the worst". I would like to vote for someone who I share his opinion. But this is not the case. The politics in general are in crisis. It needs new aire, urgent.

Freckles.