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Alex Garver
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| Outside the Bubble
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November 20, 2009
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To achieve true happiness, we must develop wisdom out of compassion for ourselves and others. Together, wisdom and compassion complement each other and are two tools that can bring peace to our lives. They cannot be untangled; it is because we have compassion that we seek wisdom and because we ... |
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Anna Bittman
| Opinion
| Outside the Bubble
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November 20, 2009
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I’ve never understood Sarah Palin, but I enjoy trying to. Why? Because 58 million people voted for the ticket she was on in last year’s election, more than a third of this country has a favorable opinion of her, and, most importantly, she has over 1 million supporters on Facebook.
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By
Charles Johnson
| Opinion
| Inside the Bubble
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November 20, 2009
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It’s not every day that I get to beat up on a nun, so here goes. Truthfully, I’m about as agnostic as you can get on spiritual matters, but I do believe that everyone retains a right to distinguish right from wrong.
The Athenaeum was wrong to invite yet ... |
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Rebecca Golden
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| Inside the Bubble
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November 20, 2009
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Pomona College’s allotment system, which was implemented this semester and caps non-financial aid students’ earning potential at $1,000, is an unmitigated disaster.
Pomona College has chosen to dissociate work from compensation. Under the new allotment caps, work is not worth a set pay rate as it was in the past, ... |
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By
Luke Willert
| Opinion
| Outside the Bubble
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November 20, 2009
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I burn through time in a number of strange ways, and I do so with the same whole-hearted fortitude that Tecumseh Sherman harnessed in order to burn through the Confederacy. Day after day, for long hours on end, I watch “Gossip Girl,” shop the Internet for real estate, and do ... |
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By
Luke Willert
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| Inside the Bubble
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November 12, 2009
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I love complaining. On my very first day of college, I complained about my room when it didn’t have air conditioning, my classes when I had to wake up at 10:45, and Frank when it didn’t have Count Chocula. Looking back on it, the last lamentation was especially preposterous.
How ... |
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By
Ilana Ross
| Opinion
| Inside the Bubble
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November 12, 2009
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Maybe I’m just more in tune with the natural world than you are, but lately, I’ve noticed that squirrels have been acting a little out of sorts. To me, squirrels have always been suspiciously undomesticated and populous creatures. And what with winter around the corner, I can see how the ... |
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Nick Hubbard
| Opinion
| Inside the Bubble
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November 12, 2009
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Beer is the ultimate liquid asset.
All bad puns aside, malt beverages are almost a form of currency on campus. Like prisoners trading cigarettes, Pomona students accrue and settle debts by the can, bottle, and case. Right now, I have roughly the same amount of money owed to me ... |
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Matt Wolfson
| Opinion
| Outside the Bubble
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November 12, 2009
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When Fareed Zakaria, editor of Newsweek International, spoke at the Athenaeum two weeks ago, he said something surprising: his greatest fear for America has less to do with any of the normal trouble spots—finance or healthcare or national security or immigration—than with the utter paralysis of our political system. That ... |
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By
Luke Willert
| Opinion
| Inside the Bubble
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November 05, 2009
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Over the course of my brief career as an unpaid Opinions columnist, I have heard a fair amount of feedback from a diverse group of readers. The spirit of honest criticism and praise (oh the praise!) inspires me, no matter what its form.
There’s my mom, who repeatedly tells me ... |
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Why We Shouldn’t Be So Skeptical Of Good Things
By Ilana Ross | Opinion The night Barack Obama found out he was to receive the Nobel Prize, I was having a humbling experience of my own. Though I’m a semester and a half from a college degree, I could not make my bed. I don’t know whether it was because my foam mattress pad was lumpy, or that my sheets were the wrong color, ...
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Feedback on Feedback
By Luke Willert | Opinion Over the course of my brief career as an unpaid Opinions columnist, I have heard a fair amount of feedback from a diverse group of readers. The spirit of honest criticism and praise (oh the praise!) inspires me, no matter what its form.There’s my mom, who repeatedly tells me that I’m brilliant. If I wrote an eighth installment of Harry ...
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Hazardous Policies
By TSL Staff | Opinion
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Something Offensive Is Found on the Internet, Determined to be “Bias-Related”
By Brendan Rowan | Opinion As students of the 5Cs, we have become uncomfortably accustomed to the “bias-related incident” e-mails that we receive on, it seems, a far too frequent basis. I think (don’t stop reading) that this whole business is silly at its best and irresponsible at its worst. Don’t get me wrong here, I’m not in favor of any kind of racist, sexist, ...
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Profundity of “Party In The U.S.A.” Baffles Intellectuals
By Luke Willert | Opinion September 25, 1066: The European Viking Age draws to a close with Harald Hardrada’s defeat at Stamford Bridge, thereby paving the way for a united England under William the Conqueror.September 25, 1555: the Schmalkaldic League of Holy Roman princes signs the Peace of Augsburg, a first step towards religious coexistence and German peace. September 25, 1997: The WNBA adds two franchises: ...
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Perceptions Meaningful Messages: Barack Obama’s Unexpected Nobel
By Matt Wolfson | Opinion Last week, something unusual happened in Washington, D.C.: President Obama was at a loss for words. Actually, a lot of the D.C. establishment failed miserably in the rapid-response department, all thanks to Nobel Prize Committee Chair Thorbjoern Jagland. Jagland managed to throw everyone for a loop by thoughtfully bestowing the Nobel Peace Prize on Barack Obama as the latter slept, ...
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Scavvy: A Stumbling Block in Student-Administration Relations
By Rylan Stewart and Than Volk | Opinion At the end of last semester, while most students were busy studying for exams and preparing for the arrival of summer, a series of troubling events quietly unraveled out of a lack of communication between administrators and students. These events highlight a number of concerns regarding student safety and students’ rights that have negatively impacted the relationship and trust that ...
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Let Go of Your Security Blanket and Get With Security
By Luke Willert | Opinion I was depressed Monday night. First, Jenny’s queen bee hegemony was challenged in “Gossip Girl.” Then, five minutes later, in a moment of deepest thought and introspection, I meditated that my shielded Upper West Side upbringing had completely blinded me to many of the austere realities of the intricate set of decisions, obligations, and narratives that, when spun together tightly ...
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