Having a hard time getting through those 50 pages of English Lit? Imagine if you had 1,000 pages to read. Every week. And it was in Latin.
Students at the tiny New Saint Andrews College in Idaho are saddled with assignments like that throughout their college career, and none of them are complaining.
Modern and ancient at the same time, Saint Andrews is relatively new, with a large percentage of enrollment from home-schoolers and a small, carefully selected student body. The actual age of the Idaho college has nothing to do with it’s classes, however, since N.S.A. aims to teach “classical Christian education”.
“Besides required coursework in Latin and Greek,” the New York Times reports, “students at N.S.A. study natural philosophy (mostly taxonomy and creationist science), the Western literary canon, Euclidean geometry and theology; they also practice public speaking at a weekly declamation.”
According to one alumnus, the students and professors at New Saint Andrews “want to be medieval Protestants.”
Your decision to support or turn away from Hillary Clinton as she places her bid for the White House may be more personal than you think. (And I don’t mean your personal predilection for weird ass faces).
According to this article on CNN.com, “women running for office face an unusual political conundrum”. Their biggest supporters—other women—may also be their biggest criticizers.
“It’s in part because some [women] expect the first female president to be a reflection of them, only better” explains Marie Wilson, president of the White House Project, an organization that encourages women to lead in both the business and political arena. “We want them to be perfect.” She goes on to say, “we hold them to a higher standard because they do represent us.” Wilson also suggests that if candidates such as John McCain or Barack Obama were women, they’d have a much harder time because of their age or experience. Read More »
The New York Times reported in a recent article that the candidates for the 2008 election will be using social networking tools such as myspace as a campaign tool. So far, Barack Obama, John Edwards, Joseph Biden, and Dennis Kucinich have set up myspace pages, and Hillary Rodham Clinton, Rudy Giuliani, and Mitt Romney will launch their official pages in the coming weeks.
“Tom Anderson, 31, a MySpace founder, said, “MySpace has a method of reaching people who are historically not interested in voting” and may not read newspapers or watch news on television. He added: “A MySpace profile could excite their interest in ways they are used to. In the same way they learn about their friends, they could learn about a candidate.””
I’m not sure how I feel about this tactic, it seems sort of silly to me that candidates are setting up accounts on sites where typically it would be creepy for someone their age to be on. But, I can see the argument that at least it gets young people interested in the issues, even if they are just glancing at the pages briefly.
Here’s what I could come up with in terms of myspace pages that are up so far for each
Your decision to support or turn away from 
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