In an editorial I wrote for my school’s paper, and which was published on the website of the First Amendment Center as well as on this site, I wrote that “America has succeeded in the past — and will only continue to succeed in the future — not because our weapons were better or our spirit was stronger. Read More »
academia

The Forgotten Duty: Free Speech in Academia
By john w connelly jr - Posted on November 19th, 2008
Tagged: academia
• Colleges
• Free Speech
• universities
• Education
• Shared responsibility
• Effective government
• Personal freedom
• Better future

The Bill Ayers Problem
By donttreadonme - Posted on October 20th, 2008
Tagged: academia
• Ayers
• Communism
• hippie movement
• Obama
• radicalism
• redneck
• sixties
• Vietnam
• working class
First off let me say that the connection between Barack Obama is a stretch. Their relationship amounts to time spent serving on a board together, and Ayers is a professor at The University of Chicago, so plenty of Chicago politicians, regardless of their political affiliations, are probably going to have some connection to him. Read More »

A reflection on minority scholarships
By bat_hayotzer - Posted on September 4th, 2007
Tagged: academia
• africa
• caucasian
• Financial Aid
• international students
• minority
• reflection
• scholarship
• Better future
What's going to happen with the changing ethnic culture of the United States? I've been wondering about this for a while--since I saw something, which said that by (what was it...) 2050, the Caucasian population of the U.S. is going to be in a minority status. Read More »


