About EphBlog
Purpose: EphBlog encourages, organizes and supports the Williams Conversation.
Motto: All Things Eph.
Board:
Rory Kramer ‘03 — President
Professor Joe Cruz ‘91 — College Relations
Lowell Jacobson ‘03 — Secretary
Eric Smith ‘99 — Technology
David Kane ‘88 — Content
EphBlog is like a party, but with a handy disclaimer. We hope that you’ll join us for a bit. Like any good party, there should be something here for every Eph.
First, EphBlog is a place where “all things Eph” are posted and discussed. If you want to read about Eph athletes, authors, CEOs, doctors, engagements, heroes, interns, Nobel Prize winners, Red Sox fans, Rhodes Scholars, runners, terror victims, warriors or writers you have come to the right place. We cover financial scandals and criminal trials. We even do a little bit of original reporting, but links and comments are the standard fare.
Second, EphBlog serves as a resource to the community of Ephs, past, present and future. We try to answer questions, provide information, recommend good writing, help with reunions and offer advice. See our Eph Blogroll for all the Eph blogs that we are aware of. We collect feeds from these blogs at Eph Planet. For our readers, we provide easy PDA access [link broken], a complete archive and a collection of Eph quotes. At some point, we hope to provide Eph News, a listing of all news stories about, you guessed it, Ephs.
Third, EphBlog provides a forum for debate on:
- College policies: admission standards (especially tips), housing, diversity, charitable giving, faculty retention and promotion, outside employment, presidential pay.
- Campus controversies: QBE, Barnard/VISTA.
- Political disputes: political campaigns, foreign policy and military recruiting.
- Itself: like everyone else on the Internet, we can’t completely avoid the allure of navel-gazing.
In other words, EphBlog is not simply a place for you to get your daily fix of Ephery. We’re that, of course, but we aspire to greater things. Many of us who live beyond the Purple Valley have discovered that life after Williams does not provide nearly as many opportunities for honest, informed and open-minded debate as we might have hoped. A wise Eph does not argue about foreign affairs with his boss. A sensitive Eph does not debate economic policy with her staff. A sensible Eph does not argue about controversial issues of the day with the other parents on the sideline of a childrens’ soccer game.So, where should an Eph who misses the intellectual thrill of the back and forth discussions that make a Williams education so magical go? Where can he find smart people who completely disagree with him but are open-minded enough to listen to his arguments and patient enough to point out his errors. To be honest, we don’t know. But we hope that EphBlog might one day be the answer.
Comments are always appreciated and, if you want to join us in these efforts, we would welcome additional bloggers. Come join the party.
