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Clear filtersSomewhere in England; or, why Gandhi is my homeboy
October 10, 2010
Toto, we're definitely not in Ohio anymore.
Oberlin in London
July 4, 2010
Why the semester you don't spend in Oberlin can be the most valuable part of your Oberlin education. For one thing, it raises the stakes.
I love London. And I love Oberlin because it's going to bring me back.
June 13, 2010
I went to London, and saw all the wrong things. It was marvelous and exhausting, so I only wrote two paragraphs. You can read them here.
First week back!
February 13, 2010
In my first week back I'm learning about the Supreme Court and revisiting the time I ate strange pig parts in Spain.
A letter to my Spanish host mom
October 28, 2009
It's been five months since I got back from Spain, and the nostalgia only grows stronger.
Go West
May 7, 2009
Dan stood in front of the bulldozers and blocked the construction for hours before they hauled him away. Why weren't there hundreds of people with him? Thousands?
A foot in each world
April 19, 2009
I can't decide if I'm excited to go back to a traditional academic setting--to actually read novels again and discuss theories in the safe confines of a classroom--or apprehensive that I'll be frustrated not to be learning by doing, not to be out on the frontlines of the issue that moves me the most.
Why my blog is still about Oberlin
April 7, 2009
Some seem to think I've strayed from the original purpose of the blog--giving prospies an unmediated account of Obie life--yet here are the ways my experiences here in Arizona have a great deal to do with far-off Oberlin.
Intolerance is the new black
April 4, 2009
"The people who come here illegally across the border are not educated people," Ms. Richardson said. "They don't have any culture or any respect for ours."
Desert Dynamics
April 2, 2009
A few things I learned on yesterday's patrol with the Samaritans, a group that sends a group out to the desert every day looking for migrants in need of water, food, medicine or simply a friendly face.
Attacking the Chain
March 30, 2009
Amnesty International just released a pretty horrifying report on immigrant detention in the U.S. calling the system "broken." What can we do about it?
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