Archive for March 2018
Thinking About Campus Transparency
To pass the science building at night is to wonder at the glow of lab tables and Smartboards, the white lab coats and goggles neatly hung, the textbooks and spider plants bathed in the light of energy-efficient dimmers. You don’t have to look closely to catch the faculty prepping the week’s lessons—or tending to something…
Read MoreKindness is a powerful form of activism
After a year that even the creators of South Park found impossible to parody, current events have lost their ability to shock us, and something of a formula has formed. As attentive and impassioned students, we see the way things are, we measure our dissatisfaction, we react. But a realization struck me last month as I…
Read MoreOvercoming rejection
It was only Thanksgiving season, and I’d already been rejected by three academic conferences, three a cappella groups, two fellowships, two summer internships, and one guy I really liked. I’m not even done yet; I’m applying for a multitude of other programs, with the hope that maybe I’ll be accepted to one for the summer. I once thought…
Read MoreIt’s time for Syracuse University students to address our self-segregation problem
Let me start by saying segregation is far from dead. It might not be politically enforced, but institutions have ways of naturally segregating people, and colleges fall into that category. From the moment students step on Syracuse University’s campus and are handed their first Otto’s Army shirt, they’re instantly pressured to find their place and…
Read MoreTeaching Boys to Become Compassionate Men — On and Off the Athletic Field
The hit in the corner was colossal. Boards and glass shook as the two ice hockey players peeled themselves away from the collision site. One player in a green-and-white jersey glided uneasily toward the bench. His moans of pain suggested he had sustained an injury. He held his right arm close to his body as…
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