cwilliam24477's blog

It is a sad thing to walk through Columbia’s halls and see so many studies. They are noisy and unproductive, merely holding-cells for apathetic students who often cut them anyway. It’s a well-known fact that the vast majority of detentions are awarded to students who have cut their study halls.  Read More »

As Columbia students trooped back to school in September, they encountered many changes. There were new Board of Education members and a new principal. The custodial and security staffs had been outsourced. Scaffolding encased sections of the building. But there was another, more subtle change.  Read More »

Today, when I opened my newspaper, a distinctly disturbing headline caught my eye: "Denial Reopens Wounds of Japan's Ex-Sex Slaves." 
WWII-era Japan is well-known for its atrocities, including the killings of thousands, perhaps even millions, of non-Japanese civilians.  Read More »

This year, my high school introduced a Women's Health course and I, like the "political aware" and "socially responsible" student that I am, enrolled. We're now a mere three units into te class and I have already been shocked repeatedly. I have seen 5'6", 54-lb 30-yr-olds.  Read More »

So...I was researching Silent Spring last night, (I had a report on the significance of Environmentalists) and I was shocked to see that it made Honorable Mention on Human Events' "Top 10 Most Harmful Books of the 19th & 20th Centuries." Well, I shouldn't say shocked.  Read More »

For everyone who didn't get to hear my speech to the BOE a few weeks past:

4 years of mathematics, 4 years of English, 4 years of science, preferably with a lab. 4 years of history or social science. At least two years of a foreign language. These are the requirements of almost any college.  Read More »