John O'Neil '14, Sports Editor
October 31, 2013
I find the article “Athletic Trainers” on page 5 to be uninformed and out of touch with reality. To consider it to the Athletic Trainers responsibility to provide treatment to “non-varsity athletes”, or ex-athletes such...
Susan D. Rose, Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology Director of Community Studies Center
October 31, 2013
I have been reading with interest the op-ed columns in the Dickinsonian. Over Fall Pause (what a wonderful thing!), I’ve had a chance to pause and reflect, and the time to offer a few comments in conversation with past commentators. I agree, we need to interrogate ...
Brendan Birth '16, Columnist
October 31, 2013
Like many other people, sports fans and non-sports fans alike, I found it appalling that Grambling State University’s football program turned into a health hazard. It was disgusting to hear about the disturbing details from...
Virginia Cady ‘15, Columnist
October 31, 2013
Recently it has come to my attention that here at Dickinson College there is a difference in treatment of varsity athletes and non-varsity athletes. As a varsity athlete you have access to the athletic trainers for injuries, both...
Talya Auger ‘16, Columnist
October 17, 2013
When I arrived at Dickinson as a first year student, I had high hopes of learning the secret to solving the environmental crisis. My goals were naïve, optimistic and well intentioned, but as I have learned, were not the solution...
Brendan Birth '16, Columnist
October 17, 2013
Part of politics involves dealing and negotiating with people you disagree with. That is just part of political life. For that reason, while it is understandable that Speaker John Boehner is dealing with multiple factions within...
Peter Soeller '14, Columnist
October 17, 2013
Two weeks ago Herman Wallace died of liver cancer three days after being granted release from Louisiana State Penitentiary by a federal district judge. Wallace had been in solitary confinement for the past forty years for the...
David O’Connell, Assistant Professor - Department of Political Science
October 17, 2013
A few weeks ago, a colleague in my department asked me whether I thought there was a realistic chance that the government would shut down due to various Republican-Democrat disagreements, some related to healthcare, some not....
Emma Weinstein '14, Contributing Writer
October 17, 2013
I believe in the power of messy hair, “long, beautiful, shining, gleaming, streaming, flaxen, waxen” hair--even though I didn’t start out with any. For the first two years of my life I was as bald as my dad. No matter...
Elizabeth Schroeder ‘15, Columnist
October 10, 2013
Grab your wordy t-shirts and hide your fanfiction the Feminist Collective is talking about comic books and geek culture! Between all the comic book movies coming out every summer, the inaccurate but popular Big Bang Theory, and...
