Student pays last respects to Ed Hill
(10/24/95 4:00am)
An open letter to Dr. Edward Hill's mother:
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An open letter to Dr. Edward Hill's mother:
Definitions of public policy: The art of decision-making. Psychological modelling. An interesting twist on political science. One of the things you do when you don't know what to be because when you're done there are bound to be lots of things to do. Or, learning leadership-the textbook approach.
What I'm about to say may not be a revelation for many of you, but it just hit me the other day. I was sitting on my couch, smelling the fresh scent of rusty radiator, when I saw the Vice-President of the United States play theatrical politics and, more or less, make an ass of himself on national T.V. In order to make a point about the history of American-Mexican trade agreements, Gore pulled out a lovely little picture of two legislators responsible for an American tariff in the 1930s. That's when it hit me-politics suck.
When I first read the President's health care reform plan I wasn't so excited. Because of my work this semester with a D.C. lobby group, I had early access to the proposal and my first reaction to the plan was pretty pessimistic. I questioned everything from the hypothetical financing scheme to the limitations on particular benefits. However, slowly but surely, I have come to realize that the American Health Security Act of 1993 (okay, probably 1994) is a revolution in the making. That is, of course, as long as it's not dead on arrival.
I never knew how bad this place was until I left it. I don't mean Duke exclusively, although I certainly don't want to leave it out. I mean the societal situation in which we live, breathe and supposedly relate to other human beings.