The New York Times has an excellent piece about the underground gay culture at West Point, where cadets are forbidden from coming out for fear of an immediate discharge under the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell law. Although the centerpiece of the article is Katherine Miller, who resigned this month after deciding she could no longer [...]
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West Point’s Hidden Gay Culture
Posted in Education, Law, Politics, tagged Don't Ask Don't Tell, Katherine Miller, West Point on August 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A Twentysomething Reacts to the Times’ Twentysomethings Article
Posted in Education, Whatever, tagged New York Times, Psychology, Twentysomethings on August 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“Why are so many people in their 20s taking so long to grow up?” So begins the 8,000-word novella on today’s New York Times magazine cover. Why indeed? This question is over rather paramount importance to me — a 22-year-old liberal arts college graduate, unemployed, living with my parents and looking for a job in [...]
Comfortable Campus Conservatives
Posted in Education, Politics, tagged Academia, Conservatives, Higher Education, Liberals, Sociology on August 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The liberalization of students during college is a well-documented trend. So are professors being overwhelmingly liberal. These leanings provide some serious ammo for conservatives criticizing higher education. According to common arguments, right-leaning students are discriminated against, are afraid to speak out against liberal causes such as affirmative action, etc. But a new study, presented recently [...]
