Creating an appropriate topic for an article in any publication is the most daunting part of writing. Inevitably, it takes some degree of invention especially when your focus is not on news, and even if you are simply trying to report the facts, a good reporter learns to write between the lines. This prelude is to act as a disclaimer for the discussion in this piece. It was inspired by an informal debate between several staff members at a recent meeting of our own staff. Take from it what you will. Continue reading “To Whom Do We Owe Our Allegiance?”
Author: Marcia Welch
Marcia is a 45-year-old personal trainer who enjoys football, walking and photography. She is gentle and brave, but can also be very sneaky and a bit romantic.
Right Stuff for Rhode Island
Might another “Kennedy seat” become “the people’s seat”? Republicans across Rhode Island, as well as plenty outside the state, are praying that will be the case. Their aspirations ride on John Loughlin, whose campaign for the first congressional district many see as a reprise of Scott Brown’s smash insurgency. Continue reading “Right Stuff for Rhode Island”
Fear Not the Radical Professor
Though it may not have been the intended reaction, I was greatly amused that William F. Buckley, Jr. actually seemed to take his professors so seriously in his classic God and Man at Yale.
Of course, this book was published before the countercultural movements of the 1960s. That era and the subsequent generation of academics it produced profoundly changed the dynamics of the University, and I believe it did so for the worse. I have always been intrigued by professors who claim to embody and perpetuate the spirit of the 1960s counterculture. Continue reading “Fear Not the Radical Professor”