Lies behind Darfur
Darfur is a region of Eastern Sudan, an African country that has been plagued by wars and civil unrest since its independence from the United…
2009
Fasting, not a recommended practice
Sarah Khalil’s article (“Fasting, a recommended practice,” Sept. 9, 2009) lauding the benefits of ritualistic starvation was so full of logical fallacies, deception and outright…
Form or function
This goes out to everybody who will ever buy any car, and particularly to those students who will soon buy their first cars, and to…
Yore Lore:
“Where Sydney Cove her lucid bosom swells, Courts her young navies, and the storm repels” — Erasmus Darwin In the 1980s, North America was invaded….
Sex and the campus
We’re all back to school for the first full week, and I can guarantee that with all this academic tension in the air we will…
Making Art
I have been suffocated, strangled My words cut short and the flow Ceased My back is broken by black and bulging beasts, Whose sadness seeps…
French camp
When we last left Sarah in French camp: part I, has finished her French immersion program in Quebec, and is moving out into the real…
‘Fair’-est in the land
What had started out as a celebration of beauty, turned into a day of distress and contempt. A beauty contest gone wrong turns into an…
Left brain versus right brain
The conflict between “left” and “right” runs deeper than opposing political camps each forging their own pugilistic paths toward social enlightenment. I’m referring, of course,…
Zoological Investigations III
Last night I had to come to terms with two things: I’ve got a mean bronchial infection and there are spiders gleefully using my bathroom…