The noble art of politics
(03/30/15 8:20am)
I’ve always had a soft spot for Richard Nixon.
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I’ve always had a soft spot for Richard Nixon.
The first time I watched Al Gore’s "An Inconvenient Truth" I remember feeling shivers down my spine. It was the only time I felt such a visceral reaction to a documentary. I remember watching projected ocean waters flood over my birthplace in China and over some of the most densely populated cities in Asia. I remember the off-the-charts projections of global warming and polar ice cap disintegration. I remember being shocked at the fact that so little of what was necessary was being done—and even more shocked that the classmates I was supposedly watching all of this with were texting and chatting nonchalantly amongst themselves.
This past Saturday I was at the Edge discussing my summer plans with one of my international friends. While telling me about his upcoming internship at Google, Eric made a passing joke about how he felt undeserving of the offer because he had received it through Google's diversity recruitment. He had tried to come off as nonchalant, and though I was deeply troubled by his comment I played along, promising myself that I’d respond fully to him later. And here’s my response.
Shakespeare once said a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
I remember back in the tenth grade when I announced to my classmates that I’d signed up to volunteer in Kenya, and several of them immediately started accusing me of being overly idealistic. I was feeding into a project that was wasting millions of dollars and worsening the conditions of the people that I was trying to “help”. So I was informed, by a group of people who had had hardly bothered to research the organization I was working with or ask about what I would be doing.
Students, faculty, administrators and alumni convened in the Chapel Friday for the annual Founders' Day Convocation—featuring, for the first time, a keynote speaker from the Pratt School of Engineering.