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(02/17/16 2:38am)
It’s funny how all the clichés about the cycle of death and birth suddenly seem a lot less trite when actually confronted with either of those two extremes. The death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has inspired a lot of discussion about President Barack Obama’s legacy. Maybe it’s the nature of presidential politics, but the pundits have said relatively little about Scalia’s legacy. This is no criticism of Scalia — sudden heart attacks are notoriously difficult to plan for — but I can’t help but wonder if the conversation would be different if he had retired instead.
(02/03/16 12:37am)
College is the only time in our lives when we are free from the calendar of the adult world. I don’t know anyone who starts studying right at nine and stops immediately at five, but apparently it’s the grownup thing to do, right up there with New Year’s resolutions and wine bars.
(12/03/15 5:23am)
I’ve always liked flying in airplanes. I can still remember wearing those plastic wings flight attendants would give me when I was very young. It’s strange, then, that I’ve woken up twice recently in a cold sweat from a dream in which I was in an airplane crash. Now, when there are those moments of turbulence as the plane is taking off, I’m scared. Logically, I know I shouldn’t be, but those nightmares have left me with just enough fear that being in the air hasn’t been the same for me since.
(11/19/15 6:35am)
I am sorry to have to write this article. I want so badly to instead pen my full-throated support for the grassroots movement for equality that is long overdue. But I can’t, and I won’t. When a card-carrying member of “the Left” has to express reservations about a social justice movement, something has gone seriously wrong.
(11/04/15 4:11am)
I wrote a column a few weeks ago criticizing what I see as the corporatization of higher education, specifically at our University. Part of what made this article work was the clear sense of outrage I directed at various parts of the giant machine that occasionally provides us with instructors and a classroom. As I received feedback, however, I became aware that things are more complicated than they seem. The bookstore, which was never my target, received the majority of the post-article ire. That’s unfortunate, but also illuminating. It’s easy to write small articles from a position of unbending moral authority and divide the world into spheres, one black and the other white. It’s even easier to go through life like this.
(10/21/15 3:46am)
I don’t know if a lot of people watch baseball anymore, but they should. Not because I love baseball, but because I think it’s part of cultural literacy. If you were to talk to my Dad at a dinner party, he would engage you in polite conversation, but you would only get the fire in his eyes that I know so well if you were to accidentally stumble upon the ‘86 New York Mets as a conversation topic. Do you know where you were when the ball went through Buckner’s legs to save the Mets from elimination in the run-up to the World Series? Well, my Dad does, and he wants to tell you about it.
(10/07/15 2:37am)
A few days ago, I walked into the bookstore of our illustrious University to see if they would buy back any of the books I spent so much money on last semester. Of particular interest to me was a $300 calculus textbook I had been forced to buy instead of rent because it came with — wait for it — a Webwork key. I did not do well in math, so I thought I might as well try to get a little money back to buy beer and never think about Riemann sums ever again. My interaction with the cashier went like this: