Jeff Mollet As Greenfire kicked off its annual Clean Plate Challenge last week, it was met with some opposition as well as some negative feedback. As a member of Greenfire, I wanted to know why people felt so compelled to leave comments such as, “Just another way for Greenfire to show that they are better…
Responsible revolution
Evan Williams Writing this Op/Ed piece is a big change for me. I normally do not involve myself in Wisconsin politics. Instead, over my time at Lawrence, I have always voted absentee in my own state of Illinois. In addition, I always thought it was pointless to write about politics in The Lawrentian, since we…
Chicago elects Rahm Emanuel: four more years of corruption
Patrick Miner For those Lawrentians from Chicago, I hope that absentee ballots were mailed and fingers were crossed for this week’s municipal election. As the results were announced on Tuesday, it became clear that Rahm Emanuel would become the City of Chicago’s next mayor. Emanuel, who left his position as President Obama’s Chief of Staff…
Staff Editorial: Email misuse
Editorial Board of The Lawrentian On Monday evening, a student sent an email to 790 members of the Lawrence community. The email encouraged recipients, who were mostly students, to join a trip to Madison orchestrated by the student to protest against Gov. Walker’s budget bill. Following this first email, approximately 20 responses were sent to…
Staff Editorial: Café music
Editorial Board of The Lawrentian Recently, Bon Appétit contracted Muzak Holdings, LLC to provide music for the Café. While we understand why Bon Appétit might be interested in playing music as an ambient background to the conversations held in the Café, we feel that the approach taken was not ideal. Students, undoubtedly, cannot be involved…
Staff Editorial
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Breaking routines: Starting something new
Nicholas Paulson I’m new at this. Further, I have no idea what I’m supposed to be doing — having no experience writing in this manner. This being the first of what will undoubtedly be a prolific, expansive, magnanimous career that will touch the lives and hearts of many a Lawrentian, I’m entirely without ideas about…
A modern proposal: Expanding course offerings
Alan Duff One of Lawrence’s greatest strengths is its small class sizes. Students never have to worry about a professor not knowing their name or being unable to contact a professor for questions. Even better, if an advanced class in a specific field of study doesn’t exist, a student can always contact a professor and…
Ought class be dismissed?
Steve Nordin Privilege. Social class. Entitlement. These are concepts that are awkward to discuss outside of a liberal arts classroom or with people of a different background than yours. We see the effects of socio-economic differences every day, and yet we ascribe to an ideology that proclaims “liberty and justice for all.” In the media,…
Reading Rights: books trailing films in advertising prowess
Magdalena Waz (Drawing by Annie Raccuglia) The difference between irony and satire — according to dictionary.com — is negligible. One is essentially a vehicle for the other, but I can’t quite figure out how that works. I thought I would try to figure out the divide by reading and reviewing Gary Shteyngart’s newest novel, “Super…