This article is the second installment within a series of articles aimed at acquainting our student body with their Student Government representatives. As a fourth-year member of the SGA I am fully aware that communication and trust between students and their representatives is crucial to the ability to generate change on our campus.
0 CommentsIn this article Joe Tarzi uses Jimmy Jones' Harry Potter Wand to interview the entity known as Trinity College. Joe Tarzi: Thank you for taking the time to talk with me. Trinity College: No problem, any time. JT: I guess the first thing I should ask is are you uncomfortable being anthropomorphized for a Tripod article? Are you afraid I could put words in your mouth? TC: No, of course not - you're incredibly intelligent and the Tripod is a bastion of the finest journalism I've ever encountered.
0 CommentsWhat is the administration doing to promote environmental awareness on campus? Campuses all across the country are now turning to the critically important matter of caring for our endangered natural environments. Even the most cursory of glances at recent National Geographic [magazines] would prove that our planet is undergoing seismic changes to the environment: from the polar ice caps melting, to recent articles in a number of major publications of rising water levels, to the ozone depletion caused by modern civilization.
0 CommentsWe have a problem. There is a war being fought by this country and we don't know how to deal with it. We leave our troops in Iraq. Americans and Iraqis die. We bring them home. Iraq will supposedly be plunged into chaos. There appears to be no right answer.
0 CommentsIt comes down to how lazy I am. In regards to my Halloween costume, that is. I kind of fell into being this particular costume my freshman year in high school during an earnest rummaging of the attic for something to wear to a party, and it's stuck. Seven of the last eight years, excluding the fall semester of my sophomore year, where I was assigned a costume during my pledging term, I've been the same thing.
0 CommentsElection day. Finally, we'll get to know who will guide us through the next four years. Will it be a democrat or more years of republican rule? And Iraq, well, I personally think we should be getting out, but we'll have to see if the president-elect shares my views.
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