“Ladies and Gentlemen, start your engines.” The roar is deafening. Tires screech. Race peel out and start tearing around the track.. We’re watching the end-of-term Academic Roadrace 500! If you read the student journals, ease drop on their conversations, look at their faces, peer into their eyes, and notice their walk you’d know what I [...]
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I hear the darkness has returned and spread over the academic land. It has been doing this every now and then for the past century. It’s withering the crops and drying up the waters. It’s passing through locked doors and shut windows, getting into every nook and cranny. It’s stifling the air. It’s tormenting the [...]
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Ah, me. Why don’t things go our way. Why don’t people act as we want? Life would be so much easier and simpler. You know a prayer is not so much a request as it is a reminder. Take Reinhold Neibuhr’s “Serenity Prayer”: “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, [...]
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