I spend Sunday afternoons in the library in an attempt to get a head start on what I have to do for the week. My tasks are extremely simple—usually finish my online Spanish homework, do a few readings and write my article for the WEEKLY. Yet I find that I take hours to finish what should take literally minutes because I have a computer screen … Continue reading Where will we hide when the robots take over?
The Gustavus community is just that: a community. Its parts are made of an array of faculty, students, staff, and administrators. These parts need to work together, talk to each other, and yes, at times even argue with each other in order to produce the strongest community possible. However, this fragile tradition may be at risk. Gusties, it’s time we paid attention. First of all, … Continue reading There’s something about Mary (Morton)
Somewhere around this column there is a picture of a table. Take a look at it. This table was created by someone who, upon completing and inspecting his or her handiwork, proposed its manufacture and sale. Another group of people agreed and placed it in a magazine. Enough people purchased the table to warrant its continued placement in this magazine, at a cost of 225 … Continue reading The street children are saving up for a night sweat alarm
About a week ago, as part of an advertisement for The Vagina Monologues, I noticed the Womyn’s Awareness Center was selling T-shirts that read “This is what a Gustavus feminist looks like.” I considered buying one to support my Gustie sisters, but I began to ponder: how much of a feminist am I? Like any learned (read: woman-fearing) man, I fully endorse the women’s rights … Continue reading A feminism for all of us
SATURDAY, MARCH 28 – 9:00 a.m. Click, beep, beep, beep, beep! Slap! [Wait 7 minutes] Click, beep, beep, beep, beep! Slap! [Continue this process until 10:00 a.m.] Go to bathroom, look in mirror and ponder how hair and face can be so destroyed by pillow, get dressed in loose-fitting comfortable clothing, and leave Southwest dorm room. Walk across chilly campus, consciously walking in a cool … Continue reading The two faces of Gustavus
Lights up on a typical American high school hallway. First-year Johnny has been cornered on his way to math class by some upperclassmen from a “tough crowd.” One of the bigger boys calls out to Johnny, “Hey kid! Want a cigarette? Everyone else is doing it.” Johnny, a proud graduate of D.A.R.E., knows peer pressure when he hears it. He knows that not everyone else … Continue reading Just say no! … but nobody asked me
I know the title of this article might be a bit too much for some of you. However, I’ve had some interesting conversations lately, and it’s got me thinking about our admissions system. I keep wondering what it is that our admissions department is looking for when it goes over all of the applications it receives. I know they must make notes, rank people, etc. … Continue reading The search for “winners”
In honor of Black History Month and the Republican National Committee electing its first African-American Chairman, former Maryland Lieutenant Governor Michael Steele, I want to start a discussion about how the Republican Party can move beyond the “old-rich-white-guy” stereotype. I believe the Republican Party is based on capitalist principles and traditional values that should appeal to people of all ethnicities, faiths and life circumstances. However, … Continue reading The minority minority: black conservatives
You’ve heard the call. We’ve all heard it. The economy is tanking and only you can get it back on track. It’s time to gather your pantsuit collection, degrees and various electronic appendages and SUIT UP, America! We’ve got an economy to save. OK, now hold on a minute. What if— what if the reason the economy is failing is that it was built to … Continue reading Homeland security skills
As of 10:00 p.m. on Feb. 16, 2009, 100,817 names were listed as awaiting a new organ, according to the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network’s (OPTN) website. To put this growing number into perspective, The Saturday Evening Post of Dec. 1989 reported that at that time, the wait list was at 17,000 individuals. That is a 590 percent increase in the past twenty years. OK, … Continue reading Organ donation
