Dear Editor, Last week, Luke Robson submitted an opinion claiming that television, material reductionism, and “the miasma of science and realism” spawned social pressures on children not to play make-believe or engage in fantasy. These pressures, he alleged, cripple children’s ability to separate fantasy and reality as adults, leading to a delusional generation. However, how...
I’m dreaming of a white Christmas. Specifically, I dream of a Christmas in which the lights blaze white. Please do not believe I write of the white fluorescent lights that illuminate retail stores or the white lights which cast an eerie blue hue. I am talking about the warm, glowing white lights which capture the...
Winter means a snow-covered campus, Student Activities Board’s annual ski trip, and A.J.’s Café hot chocolate. But the winter also means icy streets and sidewalks. And although college maintenance does work hard to clear snow from and ice sidewalks, there is one path that won’t be cleared. The dirt path that students use as a...
‘Tis the season for boughs of holly, Christmas trees, and lights all aglow. But each year, the heated argument returns: should those lights be clear, or colored? Colored lights are more appropriate for the Christmas season than white lights. Colored lights are used exclusively for holiday decorating, which keeps them set apart as a sign...
Sitting in a small, clear display case secured to a gray gallery wall is the fountain pen used by President John F. Kennedy to make Sir Winston Churchill an honorary United States citizen. It isn’t in the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. or the Henry Ford museum in Dearborn, Michigan. It’s a traveling exhibit at Hillsdale...