By Nathaniel Nakon Every fall millions of college freshman take their first steps onto a campus that they will call home for the next four years. Regardless of the countless hours spent researching the institution or making on-campus visits, there is no knowing what exactly the road before them holds. The experiences that college provides…
Month: September 2016
who is smarter, North Quad or West Quad? survey says…
By Oliver Gladfelter Spends most of their time in their room. Doesn’t have a lot friends. Never goes out. Definitely doesn’t work out. Who am I thinking of? Most Denison students would say “someone from North Quad?” There’s a stereotype about North Quad – if you live there your first year, you’ll meet fewer people,…
can we rethink campus free speech debates?
The events of the past fall (2015) on many college campuses around the United States raised deep and troubling questions about democratic inclusion. Not restricted to the right, left, or center, there is no easy resolution of the tensions that were most public at places like Yale, Mizzou, Smith and others, but are present on…
welcome to “the bubble”?
The bubble. Often derogatory, it’s a tag applied to college campuses to highlight how disassociated they are from the “real world.” Go figure that a population with an average age of less than half of society’s gathered together to read, create, and experiment would seem far removed. But “bubble” is actually a hypothesis that pushes…