If you don't know me by now, you probably don't read the Opinions section that often. To summarize what I do, I complain a lot. I complain about the Tripod, about the administration, about people's views of fraternities, about labels, about writing, about politics, about almost anything.
2 Comments"There's an obvious solution to the problem of illegal work: You open the front door and you shut the back door." - Former Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff. For Michael Chertoff "opening the front door" means that he wants people to come to the U.S.
4 CommentsCongratulations to Connecticut's Senator Joe Lieberman, who apparently is the only member of that estimated body that believes anything that happens to this country after 2020 is relevant to policymaking. He has vowed to filibuster the health care spending bill (there is very little "reform" contained therein) unless the new government health care entitlement, a.
1 CommentsA group of professors with big brains wrote a letter to the editor titled, "Cleo Article Misses Point" for the Oct. 27 issue of the Tripod. This letter demonstrates a genuine concern with the issue that, "despite the long history of racist and sexist acts at Trinity, culminating in the sad events of 2006 that led to the formation of the Campus Climate Committee, a recognized student organization would still organize a party whose theme depends on racism and sexism.
2 CommentsThe fall of Lehman Brothers and the current economic recession compelled former Federal Reserve Chairman, Alan Greenspan, to make a significant admission: he was wrong. Now, in the thick of the recession, the Ayn Rand view of free market economics is a bit outdated, even among staunch observers like Greenspan.
0 CommentsHow frequently around this time of the year do we hear about stressed family dynamics? How the holidays bring out the worst in people? How everyone fights because they are putting others in front of themselves, or vice versa? Every year, more of the same. The most recent holiday brought out in me not frustration with my family, but what may be a new understanding.
1 CommentsTo the Tripod editor, campus community, and President Jones: If Trinity has trouble attracting bright, ambitious, influential young scholar/citizens who "score" more than the admissions' office standard of eight on a scale of one to 10, the solution is not to spend millions recruiting a few perceived stars, but channeling that money into need-blind aid to promising students who cannot pay and who will be otherwise siphoned off by need-blind institutions.
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