so, this term is coming to a close. academically, this is the most delinquent i have ever been. we're going to go ahead and blame that on DC, and ignore other potential factors. so looking to the next weeks/months ( Read more... )

So, I leave for DC tomorrow. Friday is a lobbying day, Saturday an activist training conference, and Sunday a rally. George Clooney, Obama, Gayle Smith, and many more will speak at the rally. We are bringing 12 kids down. I have too much to do to go to DC. Dad and Allan came up last weekend, which was awesome. However, now I am slammed with work. I ( Read more... )

Sudanese rally against UN Darfur plan ( Read more... )

Shutting the Revolving Door on Sudan ( Read more... )

i am finished with all papers and finals in one week. it is very exciting for this term to be coming to an end. although this term has gone by without too much turbulence, mostly due to morgan, i am still ready for a fresh start, a chance to reassert my intellectual confidence ( Read more... )

i have dropped a class because of an irreconcilable midterm grade. tonight, i had very little work to do, and felt purposeless drifting about the library. i am working on darfur related stuff more intensely, which is a boon of this whole catastrophe. it shook my academic confidence though, and i am having a hard time reconstructing it ( Read more... )

Classes are all top notch: Sociology of Globalization, Philosophy of Law, and Geopolitics of Third World Development. In Phil today, we talked about antiquated Georgia sodomy law and Legal Moralism, which was pretty sweet. I have wiggled my way into the National Darfur Exec Committee, which includes about 12 other kids. I am flying to DC next ( Read more... )

... is over. I am flying back to Hanover tomorrow, yay, I suppose. Christmas was insane. A week in San Fran with my mom and a grandfather's funeral in Jersey. I found out my uncle invented the back-propagation algorithm, which apparently mathematically proves backward causality (the future's impact on the past and present ( Read more... )

I am in the library finishing the last of my three final research papers. I have survived a final and Tabard initiation and the papers are reasonable. Now, I am going home, well almost. I fly to Raleigh tomorrow morning. Kevin will hopefully pick me up from the airport, and hopefully, he will be able to elude responsibilities for the night and ( Read more... )

And, interestingly, Brooks claims that this American skepticism, incited by the war in Iraq and the Katrina disaster, explains the passivity that has allowed the crisis in Darfur to go on un-confronted ( Read more... )