Dear student body and Chimes’ dedicated readership,
First and foremost, I want to thank you for an excellent year. All the emails I’ve received and the many conversations that I’ve had, printed...
As the student senate election approaches once again we all begin to ask ourselves who we are going to vote for, who is going to be the next leader of the student body and who is the most inspiring and...
Being frugal or fiscally conservative sometimes gets a bad reputation. The stereotype some imagine is of a paranoid and hunched-over person counting the pennies in their wallet, clipping coupons to the...
As a future teacher and a young person born at the crossroads of the digital age I have begun to think deeply about the role of technology and the internet in the classroom. While the digital revolution...
This past Sunday was Sanctity of Human Life Sunday. Last week, we remembered and grieved the deaths, the murders, of 58 million unborn children who have lost their lives to abortion in the United States...
I’ve been working summers in a factory since I was 19, and doing so was one of the best decisions I’ve made. From this work I’ve learned a number of invaluable lessons that I’d like to share.
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This past weekend Fidel Castro, the longest serving leader of Cuba, died peacefully. The thousands who died under his tyranny, on the other hand, passed away by less than peaceful methods. With the announcement...
Last week Israeli scientists announced that they have made a breakthrough on a cure for HIV and AIDS. Professors Abraham Loyter and Assaf Friedler of Hebrew University in Jerusalem have developed a drug...
Even after many years of history and evidence, the viewpoint that Harry Truman's decision to drop the atomic bomb on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was unjustified has continued. In recent years...
This week we mourn the 15th anniversary of September 11, 2001. We recall the day a decade and a half ago when members of Al-Qaeda rammed two 197.5 ton planes into the twin towers and thus killing 2,996...
To the many incoming first-year students, I have a message: It's okay to change your major. Let me begin with a brief criticism of the many American high schools from which you are coming, then suggest...
