Ahh, the endless battle between a clean house and the natural living state of college students! It's a constant effort to keep things from looking like this: Actually, I'd like to point out that there are bubbles and soap involved--therefore it's cleaner? No, what really happened is that we ran out of dish detergent, and you should never, EVER use liquid dish soap in … [Read more...] about The College Clean…
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How Many Stories is WPH, Anyway?
By Andrew Ramirez * It’s around this time of the year that things go quiet: midterms and paper due dates blossom like rare flowers over night. The demand for fantastic undergraduate work is heightened, and at 2AM the students tap on laptop Macbook keyboards and drink three dollar cups of venti Starbucks coffee, bundled in sweats, closing in on page five double-spaced, … [Read more...] about How Many Stories is WPH, Anyway?
OMT, OMG! Osteopathy Makes It Better
*Note: This paper was written before the implementation of health care reform by the Obama administration in 2010. However, this does not in any way lessen the importance or timeliness of the claims being made. Atul Gawande, endocrine surgeon and author of Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance, has said that it takes a certain ingenuity and innovation to excel in health … [Read more...] about OMT, OMG! Osteopathy Makes It Better
Teach for America
As a teacher-training program for failing public schools, Teach for America (TFA) has become an increasingly prestigious non-profit for graduates from elite universities. However, criticism has plagued the organization from the beginning. When TFA celebrated its fourth birthday in 1994, leading author and educational policy researcher Linda Darling-Hammond lambasted it as a … [Read more...] about Teach for America
The Auteur Theory: The Inspiration Auteur
Quentin Tarantino by Eric Weintraub Film Writer/Director Age 48 Most Famous Works: Pulp Fiction (1994), Kill Bill (2003-2004) Inglorious Basterds (2009) Every artist has that moment in their life where they suddenly realize their calling. You’re looking at a painting, or listening to a song, or watching a movie and then bam it hits you and you realize, “That’s … [Read more...] about The Auteur Theory: The Inspiration Auteur