Freedom of speech and personal safety are basic rights we all hold dear. We work hard at Colorado College to ensure both. A recent campus issue is a case in which these principles of good compete.
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Dangerous Spam
August 6, 2007 – 2:16 pm
I have a spam guard on my computer to try to eliminate the extraneous stuff that gets sent to my email address. It helps. It catches the virus-laden items and about three quarters of what I think of as electronic junk mail. Still, a couple of times a week I am obliged to review the […]
Sanctuary. Enter at your own risk.
April 19, 2007 – 10:14 am
Prologue
I drafted a blog entry as I was returning from Chicago to Colorado Springs on the morning of Monday, April 16, before I’d heard the news from Virginia Tech. I was tired as I wrote, so I held onto the draft to take a second look at it before I posted it.
“Yesterday […]
Semester that Begins with Blackout Ends with Whiteout
January 10, 2007 – 1:36 pm
What a first semester! And what a Christmas Eve!
At 4 pm on the very first day of classes last September, the whole Colorado College campus lost power. A blackout shut down the computer center, took the library offline, disarmed the card access to the residence halls, and generally caused confusion and dismay. Conscientious freshmen, […]
Run, Don’t Walk
December 15, 2006 – 9:33 am
I usually am not moved to blog about something that is time constrained, but I cannot help myself in this instance.
Yesterday I finally took the time to visit Coburn Gallery (in our student center) to look at an exhibit entitled “Book as Object,” which has been there for over a month. I was out of […]
Spellings Commission Report Fails to Recognize Distinctive Contributions of Colleges and Universities
December 6, 2006 – 10:07 am
Two months ago, the Commission on the Future of Higher Education issued its final report. The Commission, appointed last year by President Bush and working closely with Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, was comprised of 19 members ranging from present or retired college and university presidents to corporate CEO types. It was chaired by a […]
Pondering prescient brain cells
September 5, 2006 – 9:48 am
I am curious about a certain part of my brain. I need to talk to Bob Jacobs and Lori Driscoll, our neuroscientists, or maybe to one of our psychology professors. Here is what I have in mind, so to speak.
It is that set of brain cells that tells me exactly what is […]
Engaging face to face as well as in bits and bytes
September 4, 2006 – 8:33 am
I have been out of the blogging business for quite a while. First it was the rush of the end of the academic year and a wicked travel schedule. Then it was summer and a reluctance to take on anything new. (Actually summer was both relaxing and busy: a welcome change […]
