They are often spotted lounging outside Powell Library or lurking around the entrances of lecture halls. Since smoking is not allowed inside any campus building, including dorms, student smokers assemble to finish their cigarettes outside before entering buildings. Albert Kim, a fourth-year psychology student, knows the consequences of getting caught smoking inside the dorms. “I […]
Author Archives: Sharon Kim
Disregard for national issues troubling
I am still waiting for the national sense of seriousness to set in. Here we are as a nation, potentially facing our biggest threat in history, and we are still gloriously over-consuming. What happened to the repression that comes with war? What happened to even having interest in war, or the groups who oppose it? […]
Commuters face tough world of tardiness, buses
It would be nice if I could roll out of bed 15 minutes before class starts and walk to campus. It would be nice if I could crawl home, disoriented, after a night about town in Westwood. But alas, I commute, and these are a few of the things I don’t have the pleasure of […]
Intellectual bias augments inert cogitation
What did we write on our college applications in response to why we wanted to attend college? Stock responses include “to be exposed to diverse kinds of thinking and grow as a human being,” “to gain access to higher learning,” and “to not focus solely on grades, but also on being a useful person in the world.” All […]