It's the student activities fair-there's rrRumba, SIFE, SEA, SMAC, The Network, Drumline, Amnesty International, Ripon Outdoor Club and a whole host of other enticing options. What do you do? Perhaps you might sign up for a couple that suit your interests, or you might be paralyzed by indecision in the face of all these options.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the French philosopher and writer, once said, "I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature." The world is melting all around us. The snow banks are slowly disappearing from the Wisconsin landscape, ice cream products melt on hot days, and frozen foods thaw out if they're not kept at the appropriate temperature.
"Interesting." I'm certain this was the sentiment echoed by several patrons of the Ripon College Theatre Department's production of Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice. Interesting, in fact, was a throughline motif of the play, a fanciful perspective on an ancient Greek myth that explores the nature of love and loss; fate and free will.
Dear Editor, The Feb. 24 College Days "Showdown" opinion article was admirable for seeking to tackle an issue as divisive as abortion, but after reading it I felt that neither columnist had come close to dealing with the real difficulty at its core. This issue has deep and lasting effects on many lives; let's give it the thought it deserves.
The education system in our country is in massive disrepair. Thanks to budget cuts and programs like No Child Left Behind, K-12 schools are suffering quite a bit and I feel that some reform is in order.
Ignorance begins at birth, and must be fought-for the sake of society-by an appropriate, effective, and efficient educational system. Thus, this is the problem: how do we create this system whose necessity is obvious?