Icosian Reflections

Notes from the IOP's UC Debate

Okay, here we go again. As before, I'm paraphrasing throughout, trying to capture substance but not style. Gene Corbin This meeting makes me think about the importance of good leadership in our country and on this campus. Let's thank Dhruv and Ava for their leadership, and

Greenlaw and Morris for the UC

Bar "Issues of Varsity Athletics" on the varsity athletes' platform, the only difference between the three tickets' platforms this year is that the Rather/Banks ticket collapses sexual assault and mental health into the single issue "Open Dialogue", while adding the plank "Open

Notes from the UC Crossfire Debate

This is not a faithful transcript of the questions or answers, since I can't actually type that fast. Instead, it's mostly loose paraphrase throughout. Again, I did not grab all of the rhetoric or issues that candidates nodded to, and most of this is not direct

Stand With Mizzou

I was asked on Monday by a friend if I was going to write about the goings-on at Yale. I will at some point, but now's not the time. A little more than two and a half years ago, our school spent a day on lockdown after a

A Verse for the Armistice

Out there, we’ve walked quite friendly up to Death,— sat down and eaten with him, cool and bland,— pardoned his spilling mess-tins in our hand. We’ve sniffed the green thick odour of his breath,— our eyes wept, but our courage didn’t writhe. He’s spat at us

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