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It’s Family Days!

For the intrepid Eph explorer, here are a few signs that the family days cycle has entered the Williams habitat:

1. There are a large number of confused looking 50ish people wandering around, frequently with upside-down maps.
2. There are literally too many events in the weekend for a single person to attend.
3. Pedestrians cannot expect any measure of safety or respect from those in cars for a single weekend.

Add more in the comments. Points, as always, shall be awarded on the basis of creativity and originality, as well as to the first point out my crime against the English language.

Eph Word of the Day: Palinode

From A.Word.A.Day at Wordsmith.org:

palinode

PRONUNCIATION:

(PAL-uh-noad)  

MEANING:

noun: A poem in which the author retracts something said in an earlier poem. 

ETYMOLOGY:

From Greek palinoidia, from palin (again) + oide (song). It’s the same palin that shows up in the word palindrome…

NOTES:

The illustrator and humorist Gelett Burgess (1866-1951) once wrote a poem called The Purple Cow:

I never saw a purple cow,
I never hope to see one;
But I can tell you, anyhow,
I’d rather see than be one.

The poem became so popular and he became so closely linked with this single quatrain that he later wrote a palinode:

Confession: and a Portrait, Too,
Upon a Background that I Rue!
Oh, yes, I wrote ‘The Purple Cow,’
I’m sorry now I wrote it!
But I can tell you anyhow,
I’ll kill you if you quote it.

USAGE:

“The more lighthearted palinodes were more successful, such as Geoff Horton’s recantation of his youthful view that a martini should be shaken rather than stirred.”
Jaspitos; I Take It Back; The Spectator (London, UK); Jan 24, 2004.

Items to discuss may include hallucinogens used by Mr. Burgess, the proper construction of a martini, and whether Mrs. Palin will issue a palinode.

Race and the Criminal Justice System

Please comment in this brainstorming thread if you have not done so.

I went to the Roundtable today that David wrote about earlier today. (Satire of said post here)

Follow the jump for my opinions regarding tonight. What do commenters think about setting Ephblog policy such that opinion generally stays below the fold, like this? Read more

Community on Campus/Ephblog

A possible trend I’ve noticed on campus is the push on several fronts for more community. That word is broad, and is easily lent to misinterpretation, but I suppose the next best description is “open events of free expression,” which doesn’t quite do the trick. Some of these have been around, some are new. In all cases, they have been well attended this year.

Here’s where I’ve seen this:

• All Acoustic Alliance, where singer/songwriters can come to share their creative works, then perform at “Coffeehouse” in Dodd living room. This past weekend (when I performed while simultaneously managing not to breathe), the room was packed from start to finish, though some came and left. There were many more than the only Coffeehouse I attended last year.
• The Waterstreeters, a satirical a capella group that recently paraded through the dining halls as a Mariachi group one night for the enjoyment of all, trumpet, fake mustaches, and sombreros in tow.
• Storytime, where a member of the community shares a special story - a private space that should never be quoted in the Record or here. Rachel Ko ‘09 was honored with a special award during commencement ofr starting this, I believe.
• Immidiate Theatre, which just held Petri Dish in Perry, for short works of theatre, followed by an open mic. A theatre version of AAA, if you will.
• Pause, a chance to blow lots of bubbles during lunch outside of Paresky. They flew all over Chapin lawn, and made for quite a bit of fun between class times.

Follow the jump, regular readers, for a discussion of anonymity and Ephblog. Read more

State of the Union: Mexico, Sept. 16th, 2008

(Independence Day)

Soph Mom,

You ask a question that is far beyond my limited capacity to answer– something like,  what might be the effect of the Mexican population living in the US,  on the 2008 US Elections?

Skipping the literal part for now– how this factor might change,  or might be used to change,  the vote count and result– I’ll begin with something of my current mantra on Mexico.

Mexico’s economy– Mexico’s actual production minus oil and payments from abroad– has declined by well over 50% since 1990.  The figures are easy to find.  That this itself has not prompted an international response– given that its consequences have caused 20 million or more to flee Mexico– is beyond me.

Though the official statistics– the Calderon’s regime’s economic reports,  and the counts of jobs and murders– paint a somewhat different and more rosy picture,  oil production and payments from abroad hardly make up the difference– or “right the ship of State.”

Imagine the United States if basic production were to halve in the next eight years.  That’s roughly what happened between 1992 and 2000 in Mexico.

In 2008 to date,  about 3,500 official civilian deaths have been reported in the “drug war” in the northern states.  This is a figure which cannot be correct — and as the North becomes “ungovernable,”  no one has a grip on the Southern states,  which have long been indeed “ungovernable.”

The evens are also not simply a “drug war.”  In mid-2007,  reporting of the bombings and the military techniques made that abundantly clear– as did the later chatter from the “revolutionary factions–”  before all such news became “unreportable.”  A year ago one could get a reasonable view “reading between the lines” by watching El Universal and Reforma–  in the first few hours there would be an initial report,  likely as accurate as one would get– then revised report,  with the spin of various agencies –  finally an “official” report,  tailored to present the purged reality.

Today there is simply no report.

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Death of a Bank

Lehman Hall on the Williams campus is named after Herbert H. Lehman ‘99, the son of Meyer Lehman, who, along with his brothers Emmanuel and Henry, founded Lehman Brothers. The building bearing the Lehman name was completed in 1928, at the very height of a prolonged stock market boom. The Lehman Community Service Council is also, I think, named after Herb Lehman - along with a college, a couple of high schools, numerous buildings at other colleges, and a library and professorship at Columbia. Herbert Lehman ‘99 was one of those people that get many things named after them.

He worked at Lehman Brothers after graduating from Williams, but spent most of his adult life in public service. He was part of the General Staff Corps in Washington during World War I; after the end of the war, he worked for Al Smith’s gubernatorial and presidential campaigns, and served as Lt. Governor to FDR. After Roosevelt’s election to the Presidency in 1933, he became the Governor of New York, and was a very popular chief executive, with a reputation for nonpartisanship.

As Governor, Herbert Lehman was heavily involved in trying to mitigate the banking crisis of the 1930’s, shutting New York’s banks to try to avert a panic in March 1933. In an eerie premonition of this weekend’s meetings, he also tried, unsuccessfully, to organize a Wall Street rescue of the Bank of the United States in 1930; the failure to reach an agreement caused the largest bank failure in US history up to that point, one of the first large commercial bank failures of the Depression; depositors were not made whole, and the ensuing fear and hysteria led to thousands of other banks collapsing over the next few years (cf: Ron Chernow’s The House of Morgan, pp. 320-360).

During World War II, Herbert Lehman resigned his governorship to head the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA), an agency set up to assist citizens of nations that had been occupied by the Axis powers. He became a Senator from New York in 1949; in the Senate, he was a vocal critic of McCarthyism, voting for McCarthy’s censure, and was a strong supporter of Truman’s liberalism.

Towards the end of his life, he continued to work as an activist and reformer within New York’s Democratic party, alongside Eleanor Roosevelt. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963, but died the day before the award ceremony, which took place on December 6 - just two weeks after JFK’s assassination. This was the citation that was read for Herbert Lehman in absentia by President Johnson: “Citizen and statesman, he has used wisdom and compassion as the tools of government and has made politics the highest form of public service.”

No one can hope for a better epitaph.

This weekend, the firm that Herbert’s father and uncles founded went out of business. American finance is being shaken to its core, and fear and foreboding have Wall Street in their grip. Lehman Brothers started as a dry-goods store in Montgomery, Alabama, and rose to become a storied investment bank. In partnership with Goldman, Sachs and Kuhn, Loeb (which it absorbed in the 1970s), it helped to finance many nascent industries over its 158-year history. The three Jewish banks did banking work for unglamorous and risky companies in retail, oil, and broadcasting; they promoted up-and-coming stocks, like Macy’s and RCA, that the Anglo half of Wall Street (the Morgans in particular) would not touch. They were risk-takers in the very best sense of the term. On 9/11/2001, Lehman Brothers survived a direct hit to its headquarters at the World Trade Center. Exactly seven years later, it was destroyed by the natural processes of the market and by its own derivatives and leverage. There is a crude analogy to be drawn here, but I won’t go there.

It is a near certainty now that Lehman’s 26,000 employees (including a significant number of Ephs) will lose their jobs. The impact on the financial system will be extremely serious (though you wouldn’t know it from watching the evening news, which has spent more time covering political nonsense). Many employees will lose both their jobs and their savings, because they were compensated in stock. This is the toughest, most challenging situation the financial system has seen in a very long time - if we are to believe Alan Greenspan, it is the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.

We’ll reckon the wider economic fallout from this in due time; now, however, I’d just like to wish good luck to all Lehman employees, and goodbye to the Lehman name. One might be tempted to say, sic transit gloria mundi, were it not for the buildings and schools named after Herbert. Those will continue to stand, at least for the time being.

The Computer and the Log

Leftist economist Angry Bear writes:

It is very interesting to go to conservative and/or libertarian blogs and encounter the comments on public education. So often you run across the statements about how the cost of education is rising and that they take some quote about rising real cost as absolute proof of their beliefs that politicians and the teachers unions are destroying the education system. As far as they seem to believe this is an argument stopper and that all they have to do is quote the numbers.

The numbers they quote are generally accurate. Education is an interesting industry. Despite all the advances of the computer revolution no one seems to have improved on the age-old system of the teacher sitting on one end of the log and the pupil on the other end. There has been no improvement or growth in productivity in public education. As a matter of fact one of the major metrics defining good education is a lower student-teacher ratio. But a lower teacher-student ratio means the the teachers productivity has fallen.

The obvious Eph hook is the phrase “teacher sitting on one end of the log” without reference to Mark Hopkins. Is this common?

More substantively (?), did I mention my genius plan to raise the quality and reduce the costs of K-12 education? No? See below.
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Learning “The Mountains”

To the JA’s for the class of 2012:

At the 1989 Williams graduation ceremonies, then-President Francis Oakley had a problem. Light rain showers, which had been threatening all morning, started mid-way through the event. Thinking that he should speed things along, and realizing that virtually no one knew the words to “The Mountains,” President Oakley proposed that the traditional singing be skipped.

A cry arose from all Ephs present, myself included. Although few knew the words, all wanted to sing the damn song. Sensing rebellion, President Oakley relented and led the assembled graduates and guests through a somewhat soaked rendition of the song that has marked Williams events for more than 100 years.

Similar scenes play themselves out at Williams events around the country. At many of the Williams weddings that you will attend in the future, an attempt, albeit a weak one, will be made to sing “The Mountains.” At reunion events run by the college, “The Mountains” will be sung, generally with the help of handy cards supplied by the Alumni Office. It is obvious that most graduates wish that they knew the words. It is equally obvious than almost all do not.

What we have, as current-President Schapiro can explain better than I, is a collective action problem. Everyone (undergraduates and alumni alike) wishes that everyone knew the words — it would be wonderful to sing “The Mountains” at events ranging from basketball games in the gym to hikes up Pine Cobble to gatherings around the world. But there is no point in me learning the words since, even if I knew them, there would be no one else who did. Since no single individual has an incentive to learn the words, no one bothers to learn them. We are stuck at a sub-optimal equilibrium.

Fortunately, you have the power to fix this. You could learn “The Mountains” together, as a group, during your JA orientation this month. You could then teach all the First Years during First Days. It will no doubt make for a nice entry bonding experience. All sorts of goofy ideas come to mind. How about a singing contest at the opening dinner, judged by President Schapiro, between the six different first year dorms with first prize being a pizza dinner later in the fall?

It will not be enough to learn the song that evening. Periodically over the last few years, attempts have been made to teach the words at dinner or at the class meeting in Chapin. Such efforts, worthy as they are, always fail. Until a class of JAs decide as a group to learn the words (by heart) themselves during their training and then to teach it to all the First Years before the first evening’s events, “The Mountains” will remain a relic of a Williams that time has passed by.

But that is up to you. Once a tradition like this is started, it will go on forever. And you will be responsible for that. A hundred years from now the campus will look as different from today as today looks from 1908, but, if you seize this opportunity, Williams students and alumni will still be singing “The Mountains.”

Congratulations on being selected as a JA. It is a singular honor and responsibility.

Regards,

Dave Kane ‘88

——

And, yes, I have been making this suggestion to JAs for more than a decade (previous attempts here, here and here). One of these years it is going to work!

For those who are curious, here (pdf) is a preliminary schedule of events for First Days.

Study Challenges David Kane’s Entire Worldview

From Inside Higher Ed:

A major new study of the political correctness of faculty members may challenge assumptions all around. For those who deny that there is an identifiable group of PC professors, the study says that there is in fact a group with consistently common perspectives, largely based on their views of discrimination (that it exists and matters).

But for those who say that these tenured radicals have all the power in academe, the study finds that politically correct professors’ views on the role of politics in hiring decisions aren’t very different from the views of other professors. Further, the study finds that a critical mass of politically incorrect professors is doing quite well in securing jobs at the most prestigious universities in the United States, despite claims that such scholars are an endangered species there.

[...]

After having shown that, while there are politically correct professors, there are many who are not, Simmons turns to data to examine what happens to those who are politically incorrect. Here he looks for “stars,” those who publish much more than others or who in other ways demonstrate levels of excellence beyond the norm. Here he finds considerable success by the politically incorrect. Of those at top 50 institutions, 73.3 percent are stars.

He reports that of politically incorrect stars, across institution types, 27.8 percent end up at top 50 institutions, while the other 72.2 percent do not. Of politically correct stars, 91.2 percent end up outside the top 50, suggesting that politically incorrect stars are more likely than their PC counterparts to end up at top institutions. While Simmons said that there are multiple ways to interpret these findings, they suggest at a minimum that some significant number of politically incorrect professors rise to the institutions of greatest prestige.

The data on faculty views of political hiring and diversity are especially interesting. Read the whole thing.

After a year

In roughly 26 hours, I and 6 pieces of baggage shall embark on a 28 hour taxi/train trip back to Decatur/Atlanta to roast the summer away. While I wait for my clothes to dry (no way am I getting 3 washers tomorrow), I thought it might be appropriate to share some reflections on Ephblog about the past year. Read more

Danger, Danger, Danger!! Williams class makes top 10 “Most Dangerous College Courses”.

So, I’m reading my local news website (KGW.com) and came across a story about how a class at Portland State made the Family Security Matters Second Annual “America’s Most Dangerous College Courses”. Ha, Ha, another nutjob think tank handwringing to get publicity. Then, I went to the site to see the full list, and I’m happy to say that dear old alma mater pulled in at number 9.

9. “Body Politics: Power, Pain, and Pleasure” at Williams College.

Feminist Professor Jana Sawicki has created a politically correct, Lefty gem with her Williams College course that promises to discuss such penetrating questions as, “If bodies and pleasures are historically and socially constituted within unequal power relationships, what can or should we do to transform them?” and “Is the body an inevitable source of resistance and rebellion?”

 

One look at the course description, and PC words and phrases just jump out at you: only academic Leftists use the terms “unequal power relationships.” Unfortunately, most students can’t decipher Lefty propaganda until after they graduate. Here’s a tip: stay out of this class if you want rational discussions on important political concepts that don’t have anything to do with feminist professors complaining about how the “man” tries to control “their” bodies. You’re likely to come out of this class dumb and brainwashed, and that is dangerous indeed. 

If you want to marvel in the full list, it’s right here I can’t say it’s a class that I would choose as an elective, but hey, there’s no such thing as bad publicity. Reaction?

Way to an Eph’s heart

As a practical follow-up to David’s exhortation, Bess Levin (Amherst ‘07) at DealBreaker summarizes how to woo Erin Burnett (Williams ‘98):

1. Buy me a vacation.

2. Let me pick a vacation, and then buy it for me.

3. Buy my parents a vacation.

4. Buy me a yoga instructor.

5. Buy me an expensive stationary bike.

6. Buy me a couple of famous authors to dine with (simultaneously).

7. Buy me a personal chef.

8. Buy me a vacation.

In case you’re interested, you can read Erin’s original list. And here’s Bess in a more forgiving mood:

There comes a time in every Amherst student’s life when she must put aside the feelings of hate that stir in her body for the vile weed that is Williams College and say, in the face of Williams alum Erin Burnett: this chick is hot.

And as a Williams grad, I must admit that Amherst alum Bess Levin is probably the funniest writer in the financial world. Here is a marvelous interview with Ms. Levin.

Thoughts on ‘Technological Future’

(DRAFT REPLY– MORE OF BACKGROUND ISSUES– and ROUGH)

WARNING: Painfully OFF-TOPIC from David’s post without serious revision; POSTDATED by 10 days to demote from front page

I should have said, “Drupal, Plone, or Joomla.” All are open-source content management frameworks with general capacities that match what David lists and the things we’ve talked about on ephBlog, and with ‘target goals’ closer to supporting a community than being “a blogging tool.”

There are some practical questions on the table, and we’d do well to expand those questions, divide things into critical, desired and optional columns, and conduct some version of the standard evaluation matrices that the kind of customer I want to work with, uses.

But I have a special affinity for Drupal, not just because of working with it for nine months or so. So let me start by being my impractical self.

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Potential Econ Thesis in Western Mass.

“BerkShares” are becoming more popular. Now, if only Williams accepted them (and they expanded to the Northern MA Berkshires…), tuition could be 10% cheaper, and those late night food runs/orders would be cheaper too.

Life After Williams, Explained. Not!

An e-mail to the Class of 2007 from our class president:

Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 19:13:06 -0500
From: Sarah Jenks
Subject: [classof2007] Life After Williams Book
To: classof2007@wso.williams.edu

We had about 100 of our classmates attend last week’s Networking event sponsored by OCC, The Alumni Relations and Alumni Fund Offices. The evening was a great success. All attendees were given a Life After Williams book with all sorts of helpful “real world” information and our hosts want to make sure everyone in the class gets their own copy. The books are available in each of the offices so stop by and pick one up. You should know where OCC is by now, Alumni Relations is in Mears House (75 Park Street, across from the First Year Quad, the Alumni Fund is right next door in Vogt House). I would definitely suggest getting one. It has everything from how to pay your taxes to how to buy an engagement ring. Enjoy!

On the cover of these books it says “Life After Williams… Explained” with a picture of the homecoming barbecue (taken by Ben Rudick for SI, I think). On the back is Ben Rudick’s picture of the Williams Halloween pumpkins (which he posted on EphBlog a while back). However, that is all that relates to Williams in the whole thing; it’s a canned book produced by a company that only produces these books.

The kicker? They’re $12.95 each and the content is almost entirely useless.

It has things like the “hanger rule” — if you buy a suit all on one hanger, you can wear it to your job or an interview. If you didn’t buy the suit jacket and the pants together, no go on the outfit. (Seriously, the hanger rule?) It explains that 2 BR means two bedrooms. It is so boring that I doubt anyone will take it home after graduation. Did I mention that each one costs $12.95? I just wonder who should be outraged — current students for wasting our tuition, or alumni for wasting their generous contributions?

L’Chaim!

The wedding of my friend and teammate Kenny Marines ‘01 to Jen Greene ‘02 was listed in the New York Times’ wedding announcements on Sunday. Congratulations to a long-standing and lovely couple, and best of luck to them as they begin the rest of their lives together.

David, I don’t know whether they met during Winter Study (and I doubt that they lived across the same quad, as they were a year apart), but they were definitely a Williams couple, so that’s one more for you.

Though I knew about the nuptuals since the summmer, the reason I found out about the announcement was because David Lat (formerly of Article III Groupie and then Wonkette, now running a legal tabloid called AboveTheLaw) listed Ken’n'Jen in his Legal Eagle Wedding Watch post today and in fact, named them this week’s winners. Lat’s commentary is highly complementary and quite amusing — one might even call it gushing. (emphasis below is mine):

R�sum� score: 8.7. Both are Williams College grads. She went to Brooklyn Law (cum laude), clerked for a bankruptcy judge (in the S.D.N.Y.), and will be going into bankruptcy — the department, not the financial state — at Simpson Thacher (the other highlight of their credentials, besides Williams). He’s an associate at the Tishman Speyer real estate firm.
…
Balance score: 8.7. Hard to gauge the impressiveness (or profitability) of Kenny’s employment with Tishman Speyer; but it seems to us that Jennifer has the edge.
Beauty score: 9.4. Yes, this is one of the highest scores we’ve awarded in a long time — but check out that photo! They’re both gorgeous. If she’s 5′8″ or above, she belongs on a runway. And so does he. You know someone is truly beautiful when they look great even with a shaved head. It’s all about the features.
Overall score: 8.80.
Additional comments: Extra points if this is a multi-ethnic union. A rabbi officiated, so one or both of them is Jewish; but we’re guessing that Kenny is Latino, based on the names of his parents (Emelania Fernandez and Juan Marines).
…
THIS WEEK’S WINNING COUPLE: Jennifer Greene and Kenny Marines. Their exceedingly high beauty score gave them a lead over the two other couples that they never relinquished. Congratulations!

Duct tape

From the Daily Messages:

Defy Gravity! After climbing Chapin Hall on Mountain Day, we will now suspend people from it! This Sunday, for every $1 that you donate to the Hurricane Relief Fund, you get 1′ of duct tape to suspend members of the Williams community from the wall. Stop by Chapin Hall from 12-2 to donate to this great cause - don’t leave our volunteers [hanging?]MORE

I spoke with one of the organizers of this event, who said that they wanted to get Morty to come so that everyone could tape him to the wall — who wouldn’t want to come to that event? — but Morty is unavailable that day. So I started to ponder, what other well-known campus figure could we get to come that everyone would want to donate $1 in order to get to tape him or her to the wall? Neighborhood presidents? Security officers?

Then it struck me: David Kane! Who wouldn’t want to tape everyone’s favorite alumni blogger to Chapin Hall to help out hurricane relief efforts?

Feel free to nominate others.

Note: I posted this a few days ago. Then I thought better of it and took it down and ran it past a committee. The committee thought it was funny, so here it is again.

Happy Birthday, David Kane

To the Blogmeister from the Cake Bakers Brendon & Judy, plus the Cake
Eaters Ompi and the older reader.

EphBlog gets results!

Presumably based on our feedback, the picture of Aladdin has been removed from the College homepage and replaced by something more tasteful.

Snake Hunting

M. Esa Seegulam ‘06 has an inspirational post:

And one by one, the voices of discontent rise from the graveyard of emaciated, spent, purple bodies. But crying one by one does nothing. It is time to get names. It is time we found out who our tormentors are. Who makes the decisions that work so well to suffocate the backbone of this institution? Who decides that houses will re-open on inconvenient days, that students will be housed in buildings that may well be deemed cruel and unusual forms of punishment for summer-time, construction-time, bulldozing-time, steel-cutting-time living? Which ogre is stirring a cauldron looking down at us and laughing? And how can we, as students, best turn the tables and pour some salt on this worm? Without the students, this campus will be destroyed, so we must get this snake before it gets us. For all those of you angry, bitter, disenchanted souls out there who feel that somehow the gold in your cow has dried up to more of a piss-colored yellow, know that there is strength in numbers. And this fall, I am going snake hunting. I shall begin my hunt on the trail of the Grand Dame of Student Dissatisfaction. My anti-venom shall be a little concoction I whipped up in the lab. I gave it the simple name: PUBLICITY. I invite you to join me.

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Ban Lord Jeff

The NCAA recently banned the use of school mascots with American Indian nicknames. Working at a school whose mascot might some day be deemed offensive, the issue is of the utmost important to me (at least while I procrastinate on my conference paper). Near as I can tell, one of the most popular rhetorical strategies for arguing against the ban is to suggest the NCAA also ban animal mascots. [Note: I realize the last one is a joke, but often art imitates life.]

Leave it to my fearless class president, Jeffrey Zeeman, to come up with a better riff on the subject:

Speaking of Lord Jeffrey, if the NCAA is banning Native American sports team names, shouldn’t they also ban the Lord Jeff, given that he purposefully distributed small pox infected blankets to the natives? At least our mascot is far more politicall correct, being an Indian Killee as opposed to an Indian Killer.

Quite simply a brilliant suggestion. Some enterprising undergraduates should start petitioning NESCAC to ban the use of mascots who used biological weapons against defenseless people. Wesleyan wouldn’t and shouldn’t change its nickname to the “Saddams.” Why should two hundred plus years of history permit Amherst to display (nay, flaunt) such a casual attitude about genocide?

A call for Winter Study papers

Now Winter Study is over. You have written your 10-page paper and handed it in, and now you are done, and you have passed, and you never have to think about that wonderful subject you studied again. So why not do something interesting with your paper, say, post it on EphBlog so that all your alum friends can learn about your thrilling subject and your thrilling thoughts about it?

If you are interested, please e-mail me your paper and I will add it to the list below for your eternal glory.

Please note: The following links will open Word documents.

Diana Davis ‘07

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