The following is a collection of rules I have compiled to try to improve Trinity College in every way I could think of. The astute reader will note that following most rules is contingent upon following one rule - the golden rule. So, without further adieu, here they are.
1 CommentsAs the sleet continues to pelt my office window, I realize that my SUV is the only vehicle in the parking lot of the office complex where I work. My home is fairly close to my office, so I opted to make the drive. My employer and staff are working from home.
0 CommentsI was pleased to see over the past few weeks that the article in The New York Times regarding Trinity's racial issues did not go unseen. Winnie Hu's article in the Times was a good exposé on the racial dealings at Trinity. With that said, the response that I found in the Tripod regarding the article was not surprising.
0 CommentsFor the first time in most of our age group's political consciousness, the Democratic Party seems to have what it takes to win on a national scale. Now, we just need a superhero to keep the momentum from last fall's midterm elections going. Why not Captain Planet? Al Gore should give a presidential run another go.
0 CommentsThey say that you can tell a lot about people by staring into their eyes. It is as if the eyes have captured thousands of images, and these images were being projected to you upon a closer look. Like a black hole with a gravitational field so powerful that even light cannot escape its pull, one's pupil, which is in the center of the iris, draws a spectator into a microcosm that cannot be ignored.
0 CommentsI write to commend Vanessa Holguin, Class of 2007, for taking the initiative to respond to the article by Fatima Jafri, Class of 2008, with its incendiary attack on Professor Schub. Unlike Jafri's polemic, Holguin's article is fair-minded, moderate in tone, and, perhaps most significantly, substantive in content.
0 CommentsWhat are your feelings on a foreign language core requirement? Asking me this particular question may bring charges of intellectual prejudice in view of the fact that, for 16 years, it was my privilege to have been a faculty member in one of the nation's most distinguished Departments of Romance Languages at Washington University.
1 CommentsMy home lies about 150 yards from the Atlantic Ocean. The beach that is at the end of my street is not sandy, but is instead covered by rocks - larger rocks towards the sea wall and smaller ones where the water will hit. The larger rocks pretty much stay put, away from the water, dried and heated continually by the sun.
0 CommentsI've always been slightly confused by the paradox that is American democracy and foreign policy. We are borderline obsessive about our rights to freedom - of speech, the press, and religion. We are so proud of our relatively unique political system in a world filled with dictatorships and oppressive governments that we rarely stop to question our motives - and this is a big problem.
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