Archive: Feb 2007
Class Profile: PSC 217
Most students desire the least amount of class time attainable. Sometimes 50 minutes can seem like hours and an hour and 15 minutes like days. So when I arrived early to Politics and the Mass Media, a class lasting two hours and 40 minutes and found the room teeming with students, I was surprised. The […]
UR grad visits the Big Easy to teach children
The movie "Elizabethtown" features a truly great cinematic moment as Orlando Bloom's character, having just arrived in Louisville, Ky., first opens his car door. At the exact moment he does this, the movie sound track switches from car interior silence to the loud, electric-sounding buzz of southern insect life. Crikey, you think, that's a lot […]
Feminist movement doesn't deserve the bad rap
So I know I've touched upon this issue before, but it's been on my mind and has been bothering me, so I might as well mention it again. First, though, I'd like to begin with a little story. Once upon a time, there was a woman named Susan B. Anthony, and she lived in a […]
Letters to the Editor
Op-ed missed the mark on hardshipI took issue with Eric Miller's article, "Solving inequality requires education reforms." First, the title is misleading. Miller spends the majority of the article dispelling what he perceives to be the myth of inequality in America, not arguing for education reforms, a point that he does not touch upon until […]