An Honest Review of this Blog (and poor writing, I guess)

Hello, reader. This blog has, like many blogs, become dominated by posts about itself rather than posts about the world or about my own experience here in Davidson. Warning: this one is exactly the problem.

Davidsonian: Trusting in honor; honoring The Trust

A few of my colleagues have noted that their Davidsonian articles have remained on the Davidsonian site since their first year. That's not the case for mine, which seem to have a site-life of a year or so. I'm putting the text of an article I wrote in this past week's edition below.

Here is a quick Perspectives piece published in the Davidsonian on Wednesday, January 22nd. 

Ramadan 2013

So here concludes the first day of fasting of Ramadan this year (well, about 30 minutes at time of post until breaking of the fast).


This year, I'm fasting in honor of and in favor of a few things:

1. The people of Syria. 
2. Peace in Cairo.
3. Help to the poor in America.
4. A few personal reasons.

SNAP and Preserving Our Poor

Over the past couple of weeks, I've worked on research into SNAP; visited the offices of Durbin, Harkin, McConnell, and Bachus for meetings with staff or Congressmen; and watched the House debate on a renewed Farm Bill which cuts over $20,000,000,000 from SNAP.

And I've had enough.

I'm very grateful for the members of Congress and their aides for meeting with groups of people last Tuesday, but I'm very disappointed in this Congress. Republicans seem out to cut everything they possibly can, and the Democrats seem to be sacrificing their integrity in the name of "bipartisanship" and "compromise" (from which they both are getting horrible deals out of this bill).

Amerika

As you may know, I'm away for the summer interning for Bread for the World in Washington, DC.

Oryza and I decided in order to keep in touch in a schedule that would allow neat conversation, we would start our own two-person book club.

The first book in our (probably two-book) series is Franz Kafka's unfinished first work, Amerika. It's the story of a young Russian who is banished by his parents to America after some business involving a housemaid. The entire text is supposed to be so picturesque and strange in its depiction of Kafka's America, and I'm very excited.

4/15

There are some things we may never understand.

The brothers of Kappa Alphi Psi Fraternity will be holding a moment of silence at the flagpole during common hour tomorrow. Remember that any student in class next to you tomorrow may have been greatly affected by the events of today's marathon.

Let's keep our brothers and sisters both within and without our Davidson community in our thoughts.

My Experience with Dinner at Davidson

First of all, this post should be sort of considered a follow-up to an article I wrote for the Davidsonian last week, which you ought to read here.

If you're too lazy to read it or just don't have time, essentially I talked about the affordability of higher education in the United States and how higher education is getting more and more unreachable every year for more and more Americans.

I realize that while my article didn't have a necessarily bleak outlook, I didn't really provide too many solutions to the woes of American higher education, specifically when it comes to affordability.

This is where the Davidson Trust, Student Trust Awareness Committee, and Dinner at Davidson come in.