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Published in the Daily Campus on November 21, 2019 http://dailycampus.squarespace.com/stories/2019/11/21/tomkatnbspshould-use-some-of-the-time-he-spends-skateboarding-on-accessibilitynbsp I may be the only person on campus who does not care that President Thomas Katsouleas can skateboard. In between ollies, TomKat focuses his on the most important aspect of his job description: convincing college students that he is, in fact, one of us.http://www.youtube.com/embed/Ele_dj3ud38?wmode=opaque&enablejsapi=1 When perusing his “Norms andContinue reading “#TomKat should use some of the time he spends skateboarding on accessibility”

Published in the Daily Campus on December 6, 2019 Charles Dickens unwittingly described our current political situation when writing “A Tale of Two Cities”: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness.” United States citizens live in an age of unprecedented rights. Our SupremeContinue reading “First Amendment rights in the 2010s”

Published in the Daily Campus on February 7, 2020 http://dailycampus.squarespace.com/stories/2020/07/02/ocasio-dont-fly-too-close-to-the-sun-how-alexandria-both-inspires-and-draws-ire Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has the childhood story that many politicians dream of. She grew up in a middle-class neighborhood with Puerto Rican parents. She lived in the Bronx, a poor borough, and worked hard growing up. She won second place at the Intel International Science and Engineering FairContinue reading “Ocasio, Don’t Fly Too Close To The Sun: How Alexandria both inspires and draws ire”

Published in the Daily Campus on February 14, 2020 http://dailycampus.squarespace.com/stories?author=5d8043606b54da60dce1a7e4 Anyone who runs a club at the University of Connecticut is probably unsurprised that UConn is among the 10 worst colleges for free speech, according to the Foundation of Individual Rights in Education. In relation to clubs, their attitude towards first amendment rights is horrendous. Their approach toContinue reading “Do me a SOLID and get rid of those darn modules”

Published in the Daily Campus on April 7, 2020 http://dailycampus.squarespace.com/stories/2020/4/7/academia-divided-over-controversial-paper-about-hereditary-intelligence Should academia have a greater devotion to social justice, or should its focus primarily be on open inquiry? If science can prevent certain unsavory questions from coming up, could that weaken its credibility? Is science supposed to provide the most good for people, or isContinue reading “Academia divided over controversial paper about hereditary intelligence”

Published in the Daily Campus on April 17, 2020 http://dailycampus.squarespace.com/stories?author=5d8043606b54da60dce1a7e4 In the ’60s, Alan Charles Kors, professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania, co-founded Van Pelt College House,  a residence for students to be individuals and not representatives of larger groups. Physical and intellectual diversity thrived in a house complete with Maoist revolutionaries, theContinue reading “Orthodoxy is a cruel mistress”

Published in the Daily Campus on April 27, 2020 http://dailycampus.squarespace.com/stories?author=5d8043606b54da60dce1a7e4 “The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic” was written in Oliver Wendell Holmes’s opinion in Schenck v. United States in 1919. While the decision was overturned in Brandenburg v.Continue reading “Colleges should give everyone a platform, no exception”

Published in the Daily Campus on May 1, 2020 http://dailycampus.squarespace.com/stories/2020/5/1/taking-the-hedonic-treadmill-up-maslows-pyramid Johnny, when boarding the plane, is notified that this is the first flight ever with a Wi-Fi connection. How exciting! Several hours later, accompanied by turbulence, the captain’s voice blares over the intercom, “We apologize that because of the turbulence, the wi-fi will not beContinue reading “Taking the hedonic treadmill up Maslow’s Pyramid”

Published in the Daily Campus on September 14, 2020 In 1955, politics in the United States on the right had become completely stagnant, and repulsive to the intellectual class. William Buckley, a young Yale graduate sought to change the trajectory of the intellectual class. Buckley founded the National Review, America’s premiere conservative magazine with theContinue reading “Break Up Already: ‘Fusionism’ with Republicans post-Buckley is not a good deal for libertarians”

Published in the Daily Campus on September 21, 2020 Ibram X. Kendi, the prominent (and deeply mistaken) author of ‘How to Be An Antiracist’ recently wrote an op-ed in Politico about the need to pass an antiracist constitutional amendment. Kendi claims that racial inequity is ipso facto evidence of racist policy and the different racial groups being equalContinue reading “No, disparity does not imply discrimination”