Opinion
Jimmy Jones Steps Down – A Student Perspective
This year has not been great for Trinity’s reputation, and it’s been even worse for the leadership’s. Earlier today, President Jimmy Jones sent out a campus-wide email about his plans to “step down” early, much to the surprise of students. Jones will retire July 2014 rather than seeing his contract through to 2015. Rumblings of [...]
Bowdoin’s Divestment Demonstration: All Quiet On Set
Two days ago I received a press release from a group called Bowdoin Climate Action (BCA). For months, following similar movements at other schools, this group of students has been asking the college to divest our endowment from fossil fuels. As far as raising awareness, they’ve done a pretty decent job. Debate was ignited in [...]
What must change for the Tour de Franzia to survive?
Increasing levels of semi-threatening e-mails from Wesleyan’s administration could only mean one thing: it’s officially Tour de Franzia season! The Tour consists of a night in which groups of students run around campus, taking pictures of themselves at destinations or performing tasks the organizers come up with—places like “Where Obama spoke” or things like “Hooking [...]
A Stand-out Compliment
Someone posted the following letter in Colby Compliments today and I thought it was worth re-posting: This is not meant to exclude anyone, but to include those who are usually left out by things like this (Colby Crushes, Colby Cuties, etc.) So if you’re offended: 1) My bad 2) Sorry I’m not sorry. Dear Students [...]
Pushing The Water Ahead: Bowdoin And NAS
The following is the perspective of one critically thinking Bowdoin student on the recently released report “What Bowdoin Teaches”. My belief is that the National Association of Scholars’ (NAS) study is a comment on ‘Cac culture at large, and that my analysis of it also functions, at times, as a defense of our way of life. [...]
87 Things I Learned In College: An Annotated Listicle
On Thursday Thought Catalog unleashed perhaps one of their longest listicles ever, an 87-point beast about what Chicago-based writer Jasmine Neosh learned in college. In the spirit of all the new NESCAC 2017’s we present a ‘Cac-centric commentary on this list for the incoming frosh. Enjoy, and get excited! 87 Things I Learned You Will [...]
An Accurate Response Paper
I just want to start out by saying, thanks for assigning us a response paper this week. I haven’t done the readings since the third week of the semester, and completing this assignment reminded me why I signed up for this course in the first place. Of course, my ability to tie in these readings [...]
A 45-Minute Phone Conversation On The Meaning Of ‘Bro’
The Middlebury Campus’s recent back and forth about a ‘privileged’ male’s place in campus activism has inspired a MiddBlog reflection on the use and abuse of the term ‘bro’. Our Conn blogger—self-described as toeing the bro line—declined to write a response…but he did offer to let me interview him about the practice of ‘scapebroating’. Below, [...]
