Lawrence recently awarded film producer Abigail Disney an honorary degree for her work on the film "Pray the Devil Back to Hell." As part of her acceptance, she gave a convocation titled "Peace is Loud" and hosted conversations about her film, which was shown multiple times on campus.
A lot of people I know are a little shy about their life's dreams. They feel vulnerable sharing what is most important to them with strangers. My roommate, for instance, will only tell you about his life-long dream of bringing Ultimate Frisbee to the Olympics when you sauce him up a bit and promise not to tell anyone else.
There is a room in a building in Vancouver where injection drug use is legal. The program based in that room, Insite, represents a strategy for dealing with drug addiction that might just make a whole lot more sense than America's. Insite is the only government-sanctioned injection facility in North America.
When I was in middle and high school, the biotechnology industry was booming. Companies like Monsanto were patenting and profiting from genetically modified crops such as soybeans resistant to the common herbicide Round-Up, and corn that could produce its own insecticide using a protein manufactured by an assimilated gene of the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis.
Dear Drew, Why is winter term so awful? --Freezing Freshman There are a lot of reasons, Freezing, but your pseudonym suggests that you're most concerned with the weather. If you want to hear things about the earth's tilted axis, the jet stream, or fronts of various pressures, you should probably talk to someone else.