Monthly Archives: April 2016

“Help me with this; I’m lost.” Thats how New York Post columnist Phil Mushnick begins his opinion piece challenging the decision by the Chicago White Sox, a professional baseball team, to make Chancelor Bennett, known better by his stage name, Chance the Rapper, the team’s ambassador.  Mushnick disagrees with the White Sox’s recent decision to make Chance their “team … Continue reading »

Recently a classmate of mine responded to a TED talk that she saw about what it means to be smart.  In this talk, the performer told his audience that  “he will make them feel as if they have learned something even though he himself had not conducted any research or have anything inspirational to say.” … Continue reading »

Sectionals I play for the Santa Clara University frisbee team and this past weekend, we played in a big tournament called “Sectionals.”  It consisted of the best teams from Northern California and Southern Nevada.  The top seven teams from this tournament would go on to “Regionals” (which consists of the best teams from the SW … Continue reading »

In his article, “BEAM: A Rhetorical Vocabulary for Teaching Research-Based Writing,” Joseph Bizup, a professor at Columbia university introduces his research concept: BEAM.  As opposed to the traditional way of categorizing sources, primary, secondary and tertiary, Bizup chooses to organize them in categories based on how the way they are being used.  BEAM is made … Continue reading »

  Busy, Busy Unsurprisingly, college is a busy time.  Between all the classes, various clubs, sports and socializing with friends, sometimes it seems a little crazy for professors to expect students to write research papers in just two weeks.  So it’s not extremely surprising that Michael Kleine is horrified to see college students just “copying” … Continue reading »

Social Media Takeover As I was scrolling through Facebook last-night, a typical procrastination strategy that usually results in nothing but an hour or so going to waste, I came across an unusually interesting post from one of my high school friends.  It was a link to his first article, titled “Why I Write Letters,” for … Continue reading »

Tradition Shattered! In my last post I discussed my impending trip to the archives at Santa Clara University and some of the questions I am hoping to answer through my research.  I was planning on researching the way the university transitioned from an all boys school to a coeducational school.  There were numerous collections at … Continue reading »

Is Change Good? In 1961, Santa Clara University finally admitted 75 female undergraduate students, becoming the first Catholic coeducational university in California.  Unsurprisingly, this was met with some skepticism from some students and faculty, while others viewed it as a step forwards.  It comes as no surprise to me that some people were unhappy with the … Continue reading »

  Wait What? It doesn’t intuitively make sense, but the more you think about it, the more you realize that everyone’s done it.  At some point in your life, probably recently, you decided that you didn’t need to do exactly what you were told.  You “understood” what the final product was supposed to be like and figured … Continue reading »