Heading off to Belfast on this, one of my favorite holidays. Our study abroad program is planning a nice dinner for us tonight, but it won’t be the same without some of those standard Thanksgiving foods…like fried turkey! Also, while the company will be great, I miss spending this Thanksgiving with friends and family. I’ll [...]
I’m a little late posting these pictures, but better late than never, right? My friend Todd and I took a quick weekend jaunt across the Irish Sea to the United Kingdom and London. The story about getting there and back is one all by itself. Most Americans probably didn’t hear, but last week Ireland had [...]
This sounds like a pretty cool book from Gene Dattel, a Vanderbilt Law alumnus who grew up in Mississippi. The AP reports on Dattel’s book, “Cotton and Race in the Making of America: The Human Costs of Economic Power,” and calls it “a compelling story of how the cash crop shaped the 19th-century global economy [...]
So yesterday, most of the Irish civil service, including professors at this university, went on a one-day strike in protest of their expected pay cut. I wrote about this on the Corner at NRO: The strike includes, as I found out in class yesterday, university faculty at all of Ireland’s public universities. Here at the [...]
Maybe it is just my general level of pessimism toward the media and their ability to dutifully fulfill their actual, supposedly intended purpose, but I doubt that many readers have been made aware this past week of the importance of November 10th. On this day, our nation wishes a Happy Birthday to the United States [...]
With the passage of Pelosicare by the House, healthcare reform continues to dominate political debate – both nationally and here at Vanderbilt. Project Dialogue, an initiative to “involve the entire Vanderbilt community in public discourse and reflection” brought T.R. Reid, a noted journalist with the Washington Post and PBS, to deliver a lecture entitled “Rescuing [...]
When it comes to facial hair, all men are not created equal. During the month of November, however, the Movember Foundation and Vanderbilt’s IFC are encouraging all men, regardless of facial hair growing ability, to ignore the urge to shave and let their moustaches grow freely.
A recent Hustler editorial by Jordan Fixler asked the rhetorical question, “Seems pretty obvious that Hasan’s Islamic background has something to do with his rampage right?” in reference to the recent shootings at Fort Hood by Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, who killed 13 people (14 if you include a pregnant woman’s unborn child) and injured [...]
What kind of man can become a radical Muslim and jihadist? Apparently, even a middle-class Catholic from Dublin can enlist as a Soldier of Allah. A story in the Sunday Times featured Khalid Kelly, formerly known as Terry and a native of the Liberties district of Dublin. According to reporter Nicola Smith, Kelly grew up [...]
Who can tell you whether you can or can’t smoke a cigarette, and where and when you can smoke that cigarette? The Vanderbilt Student Government wants to ask that exact question of the Faculty Senate. The Faculty Senate, in extended debate over the potential expansion of the Vanderbilt Medical Center smoking ban to main campus, [...]
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