Davidson SGA Elections 2014: Before the Debate, Where we stand

Before I get to anything else, here's a Davidsonian article by Michelle Wan on the changes to SGA bylaws.

Here are a few updates to my previous post. 

Davidson SGA Elections 2014: Where we stand, pre-politics

I tweeted earlier asking if there was a student offering insight into the SGA election as an elections observer. I received no responses, so I figured I would spend a few days covering the election politics just for kicks.

I will not reveal my "politics" on these races, but I can't promise I will tone down any snark here. If you want to know who I am considering casting my vote for, please come talk to me in person.

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.