3.31.2004
Sorry everyone. I have been avoiding posting cause I know the time implications it usually involves (and I'm lazy). It's really unproductive for me to be doing this right now, but I don't fucking care about "Divide and Conquer Algorithms in Data Structures" right now so I will post for your enjoyment and my sanity (or the extension of my misery - which ever way you look at it).
Some recent happenings:
We had a spaghetti dinner fundraiser for the college democrats last Wednesday. It went really well and was fun. We served up good food to lots of democratic faculty and students and some affiliated with other parties that came out of the goodness of their hearts. It has put ideas in my head of running for president of the chapter next year. We'll see.
Thursday night was a campus discussion of the idea of indivduality vs. citizenship. The discussion was spured by Robert Bellah and his book Habits of the Heart. He is the keynote speaker at this year's Student Acheivement Day. A group of about 50 students, faculty and community members were divided into smaller groups of 8, each with a facilitator. I sat at Kamran's table. The problem each group was charged with finding a solution was the "parking situation" on campus. When the groups convened at the end we all agreed there was no parking problem on our campus. Rather, there was a walking problem. We all complain about walking 4 blocks, when most campuses have longer distances to walk and higher parking pass prices. We have it pretty good at Bemidji State. The conversation then turned rather political - in a good way. It made me wonder if there were any republicans at all in the room. If there was they didn't speak up.
Afterwards, Amy, Kamran and I went to the Union Station for $1 taps and conversation. Kvale, who had also been at our table at the discussion expanded on his idea of the need for a place in the community where people from all generations could gather to just hang out, talk, whatever. Somewhere where adults are not in places of authority, like your parents or teachers would be. I'd agree that we desperately need some sort of community center.
Some recent happenings:
We had a spaghetti dinner fundraiser for the college democrats last Wednesday. It went really well and was fun. We served up good food to lots of democratic faculty and students and some affiliated with other parties that came out of the goodness of their hearts. It has put ideas in my head of running for president of the chapter next year. We'll see.
Thursday night was a campus discussion of the idea of indivduality vs. citizenship. The discussion was spured by Robert Bellah and his book Habits of the Heart. He is the keynote speaker at this year's Student Acheivement Day. A group of about 50 students, faculty and community members were divided into smaller groups of 8, each with a facilitator. I sat at Kamran's table. The problem each group was charged with finding a solution was the "parking situation" on campus. When the groups convened at the end we all agreed there was no parking problem on our campus. Rather, there was a walking problem. We all complain about walking 4 blocks, when most campuses have longer distances to walk and higher parking pass prices. We have it pretty good at Bemidji State. The conversation then turned rather political - in a good way. It made me wonder if there were any republicans at all in the room. If there was they didn't speak up.
Afterwards, Amy, Kamran and I went to the Union Station for $1 taps and conversation. Kvale, who had also been at our table at the discussion expanded on his idea of the need for a place in the community where people from all generations could gather to just hang out, talk, whatever. Somewhere where adults are not in places of authority, like your parents or teachers would be. I'd agree that we desperately need some sort of community center.