April 2011
April 12th, 2011
Written by Russell Roberts in Setting It Straight with 0 Comments
Hank Greenberg, slugging baseball player for the Detroit Tigers, remembered one incident well.He played left field for a minor league team in Waco, Texas. He ran hard after a fly ball and caught it for the third out in the inning. As he ran toward the dugout, Greenberg received a nice round of applause from the fans in the grandstand.However, one man sitting in the middle of the crowd did not...
April 12th, 2011
Written by Janice S. Ellis... in National Collegiate Dialogue with 48 Comments
Is it in the name? Is it the belief by more than 25 percent of Americans that he is Muslim despite his repeated affirmation that he is Christian, and doubt that he was born in the United States? Or, is it because he is the first black President of the United States?Unlike any other president before him, President Barack Obama’s place of birth is persistently challenged. It began when he won the...
April 11th, 2011
Written by Sam Richards in National Collegiate Dialogue with 0 Comments
In this video lecture titled Free Will vs Determination, part two of a six part lecture series on Race and Ethnic Inequality, Dr. Sam Richards discusses the sociological impacts of Free Will vs Determination and how these topics allows students to apply it to both current and future discussions about all aspects of the causality of human behavior. This in-depth lecture covers a wide variety of...
April 8th, 2011
Written by Russell Roberts in Travels' Tapestry with 0 Comments
If Queen Victoria were alive today, and decided that she needed a break from the demands of British royalty, where would she go to find relaxation but still feel connected? Why, she’d choose nowhere else but Cape May, New Jersey, the Victorian Crown Jewel of the East.Cape May is located at the very southern tip of New Jersey, directly on the Atlantic Ocean. This seashore location gives the town a...
April 7th, 2011
Written by Cindy Ferraino in Common Ties That Bind with 0 Comments
When all of my boomer parents (both my husband’s and mine) became grandparents for the first time by X 2 (yes, there were two baby girls to love and hold) twelve years ago, the thought of college for this dynamic duo went like a flash before their eyes.Now, as they watched the dynamic duo blow out their candles on their birthday cakes this year, the creeping college monkey decided it was again...