The Dower Power Hour

For reasons I won’t go into, I have had a chance to do some significant self-reflection in the last few weeks. My final academic year as an undergraduate started a few weeks ago, and I’ve had a few developments in my personal life which have caused me to look inward and think about the […]

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I haven’t updated this thing in a while. This is for a number of reasons: lack of readers, lack of time on my part, having the campus newspaper A Modest Proposal as another outlet to voice my thoughts. However, I’ve noticed that for some reason my views have started steadily increasing over the […]

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This week’s heroes are two high school seniors: David Shepherd and Travis Price. After a male Freshman was taunted for wearing pink on the first day of school this year, these cool kids decided to do something about it. The pair organized a mass effort to get everyone to wear pink on the same […]

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Hey guys.  If you haven’t already heard about it, something related to Owen Wilson happened recently.  However, I urge you not to look it up and if you hear someone gossiping about it, walk away.  From the handful of paragraphs I read before I had the good sense to stop, he doesn’t want people to […]

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Yes, Gonzales finally resigned. But more importantly, the University of Vermont has installed a gender-neutral bathroom for its transgender and handicapped students. (No, this isn’t meant to imply that being transgendered is a handicap, although I am sure it does make life more complicated.)  “At least 17 colleges and universities have included […]

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How do we judge historical figures: by the standards of their own time or by ours? 
Take Theodore Roosevelt for example.  He was a charismatic President, a prominent conservative who never-the-less recognized the importance of breaking up the monopolies that dominated American industry at the time.  He also pioneered the American conservation movement, starting many of the national parks that remain in […]

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The songbird has finally put to rest the ancient debate between nature versus nurture. Answer: it’s both. Sarah M.N. Woolley is a behavioral neuroscientist that has been studying the way songbirds learn. A baby zebra finch, if growing up in isolation, doesn’t have the opportunity to learn the “complex sexy song” […]

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