An idea for deployed Ephs
Testing, one two, testing…
I wrote Stewart with an idea of a gift for deployed Ephs. I am thinking a Williams polo shirt, or if the resources are available, a letterman’s jacket- with their military logo on it, and a “climb high” patch on one shoulder, maybe the Williams logo on the other, and maybe a flag for one breast insignia, and their unit/ service logo on the other, with name… Something that denotes Williams Alumni and veterans status on the back. You all get the idea of what I am envisioning; if every military Eph got something like that, it would be… well, for lack of a better expression… cool. How much would it cost, and what would be the best way to fund it?
Dick- Any way you could photo shop what something like that would look like?
[PTC: are comments intentionally 'off' here??? --KT as Ed.]
Once upon a time in the Berkshires, 1976
Not for the glam, nor glory, but as a record of how it was at times for some of us. What a pointless exercise we undertook. Why is it, some places in time, and indeed some boys and men, are just plain belligerent?
I am sure there are people here blogging who can relate.
I recall I was ten at the time. Tight T shirt, first dance, I was just starting to feel and act on that pre adolescent urge of kissing girls, and groping around clumsily in the dark for a breast through a shirt. Anyhow, there I was. All dressed up. Looking good. I had checked myself out in the mirror several times before getting a ride to that dance at the YMCA. North Adams. Plenty of young pretty girls and boys going through the awkward age of pre puberty in small town rural America at the dance at the Y.
Summer
The Webb GI Bill Passed
Yes! It pays an amount equal to the most expensive in-state public school.
The Bill also creates a new program in which the government will agree to match, dollar for dollar, any voluntary contributions to veterans from institutions whose tuition is more expensive than the maximum educational assistance provided.
I wonder if Williams will create a program for matching voluntary contributions to meet the cost?
Dude, where’s my town?
This is the most irresponsible thing Williams has ever done. It punishes the landscape as a reminder to us all, that life is about more than money.
Local swimming hole #3
The Tubs
This is private property, so I am not going to give the exact location on the internet. It is in Pownal just off of Rt 346, about fifteen minuets from town. If you want to check it out, make friends with a townie and they will show you the way. It is a very beautiful location.
Warning- the terrain is rough and not really suitable for children.
There was some trash on the site. If you go, please bring an extra garbage bag and clean up after yourself and those who have decided to litter.
Cheers!
Local swimming hole #2
The Hopper.
Check it out. Local, everyone knows where it is. You could jog here. Fast cold water, a nice field to picnic in, and you do not have to worry about the above sign. It is legal to swim here.
I may make it home this summer. If so, I’ll check up on some of my old swimming holes (the Pines, the Tubbs, the Orchards) and see if they are still open to the public.
Veterans?
What programs does Williams have to help our veterans afford a Williams education? Does the school offer anything to veterans in terms of special financial aid?
It would be really great if Williams offered veterans an education for the cost of the current GI Bill. Bush has promised to veto the Webb GI Bill and it is going to be up to individual institutions to offer affordable education to our homecoming veterans if there is no override. Does Williams have any such program? I do not see any specific programs for our veterans on the Williams webpage. Could such grants be started by giving alums?
Is there special consideration given to Veterans for admission? Anyone have an idea of how many veterans are currently attending?
How is it done?
How do you track where a person is when they post on this blog? I understand that when you get the IP Address of an idnividual blogger, you can run that through a varitey of webpage programs to see where the person was when they posted- but how do you get their address? Can anyone who visits this site, take a post and find out where it originated from.. or only those who control the domain- those able to see the posters IP Address? I have seen a posters location “outed” here on Ephblog in the past.
There are programs that claim to ”scatter” a persons IP Address so it makes it very hard or impossible for an someone to see where the person is posting from, and what other webpages they may be visiting if there is a controlling authority in the link- do such programs work, if so, how? Always?
It would be really cool if some of the IT gurus in here gave some insite into the webb, how it works, and how individauls are “tagged” and followed on it by advertisers and others.
Thanks.
Memorial day
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/05/23/memorial.day.irpt/index.html
This is a really fine tribute.
Local swimming hole #1, re visit
http://www.ephblog.com/2007/02/28/local-swimming-hole-1/
Summer is here! Enjoy the Berkshires and the Green Mountain State! I do miss it so.
African Food/ Townie Wisdom
I figured I would comment on the recent posts about African food. I have spent some fairly recent time in East Africa. About seven months, in fact. The best food I had there was Lebanese food.
The Lebanese are everywhere, by the way. A great majority of lebanese live outside of Lebanon. There are millions of Lebanese livings in Africa.
I found the African people I encountered to be very friendly and polite. There was minimal crime. Almost everyone had a curiosity about America that revealed hesitating admiration and trust. Most Africans that I met still held guarded hope for a strong and good America that delivered friendship and the promise of a better future.
I also encountered extreme separations of wealth, desperate poverty, and the rampant corruption that is prevalent in many African Nations. It is a sad place, in many ways. Very hard for me to express in the written language, but when I think about Africa, I get mixed feelings of joy, remorse, sadness and hope.
Has anyone ever heard of the theory “Relative Deprivation“? From what I have observed in my travels in life, I believe it is the most accurate criminology theory ever written. I do not believe that crime has anything to do with genetics, race, or even poverty. It is cultural.
Our views on class and race are always a work in progress. No one is ever “right” about such matters, but there are plenty of people who I know are wrong.
