My cousin is a bit of a freak. And by that, I mean she's a genius. At the age of three she was performing on local stages, singing five-minute songs in a language she didn't understand.
If you had asked me a year ago, I would not have considered myself a feminist. At that point, I had never given the label much thought, but I got the sense that it was an uncomfortably strong word with a vaguely negative connotation.
In an article titled "Social Scientist Sees Bias Within" in this Monday's New York Times, John Tierney discussed the biases that keep moral conservatives out of the field of social psychology.
A few weeks ago, an excerpt from "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother," a novel by Yale Law professor Amy Chua, was published in The Wall Street Journal under the title "Why Chinese Mothers are Superior." The excerpt promotes a caricatured depiction of Asian mothers as relentlessly strict.
As I make my way through senior year one question persists: has Dartmouth made us smarter? One could argue that we're at the best undergraduate institution in the country and in our vanity assume that we will leave here smarter than when we came.
Work hard, play hard. We've all heard this maxim countless times, but is it the best way to live our lives?
For three years, I've inhabited a social space that lies somewhere between the Greek scene and the DOC.
The act of ignoring important issues in society is akin to the mentality of a small child who covers his eyes and expects no one to see him.