I come not to assail the Ivy League, but to praise it. This article on the Terri Schiavo case by a Harvard student with cerebral palsy makes the argument that the people allowing her to die are nothing more than bigots against the disabled. I agree completely. This is a must-read article if you are interested in this case.
Monthly Archives: March 2005
In Loco Parentis: how most universities are failing to serve our kids
I had an interesting experience Sunday when one of the young men in my ward informed me he wanted to go to Yale. I recoiled in horror. And I am not a Harvard or Princeton grad, so this has nothing to do with Ivy League prejudices.
Guest Post: Another Reality– The Democratic Republic of Congo
by Heather Fortuna
A few weeks ago I was sitting at a table near a swimming pool eating dinner at a newly built and very nice hotel in Kigali, Rwanda. Sylvia, the photographer my work had hired to take pictures of women in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), was retelling her experiences in jest to me and two of our directors.
Trickledown Influence
There is one professor who has had greater influence on my life and education than any other living, yet I have never taken a class from him. I have never even read any of his writing. We met once in a social context but we exchanged at the most a few sentences of friendly banter.
I was unable to read until I was nearly nine years old.
Guest Post: A Shift in Message
By Tanya Spackman
The other night at Home, Family, and Personal Enrichment meeting, we had a Relief Society birthday party, which included hearing short bios of all of the general RS presidents. I was asked to cover Clarissa Williams, a wonderful woman. While listening to these bios one after another, there seemed to be a definite shift in the community activity (much of it quite political) of these women the last two to three decades, which also seems to correlate to a change in their overall message to the sisters of the church.