Voicing an opinion
By Prashanth Parameswaran | April 23, 2009When I stepped into this weekly soapbox three years ago, I was an opinion columnist without a voice.
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When I stepped into this weekly soapbox three years ago, I was an opinion columnist without a voice.
Since successful student activism is so rare at this University, I get stirred by even the slightest rumblings of discontent, no matter how ineffectual or inchoate they may be.
Foreign policy commentators, with their penchant for coining cute catchphrases, have waxed eloquent about ?the Obama doctrine?. Yet, few agree on what it is.
Even as a foolhardy, delinquent ninth grader in the Philippines, I vividly remember watching President George W.
President Obama, please tear down this wall. In the midst of your meteoric rise to become Harvard Law Review?s first black president in 1990, the Berlin Wall, which symbolized the Cold War, was reduced to rubble.
Since this is my last semester at the University, I often find myself evaluating my overall experience at this institution.
As a political junkie, nothing sweetens my Spring Break vacation more than a dose of international justice.
NO ONE likes service cuts. No surprise then that students huffed and puffed after the Information Technology and Communication office announced its plans to gradually phase out public computer labs from the University last week.
IF I WERE to reluctantly put on my patronizing fourth-year hat for one column and advise undergraduates to do one thing at the University, it would unquestionably be undergraduate research.
Frigid and half-asleep, I nestled into my seat in Ruffner Hall last Wednesday, ardently awaiting another lecture by Melvyn Leffler, Edward Stettinius professor of history.
