Looking Back, Jacob Alexander Goes Forward
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There’s a wooden plank in the Karnak Gallery off of First Ave., hanging above ancient, ornate, astrological-looking tapestries. You have to enter the gallery through a tiny walkway first before turning around to see it and the multicolored chaos of smaller boards hanging perpendicular like wind chimes underneath the plank. By itself, it doesn’t look all that impressive. Dingy, faded looking, with browns, oranges, reds, blues, yellows, even light greens, it looks as though it …
Believe it or not, some of the esteemed professors at the University of Minnesota spend a lot of time on Facebook. And Myspace. And Twitter. And Second Life. In spite of the obvious reasons why these professors are wasting their time on social networking sites, they aren’t griping about how silly their students are. In fact, they’re studying how their students and other people interact with …
Politics may be an old man’s game, but that doesn’t mean that younger candidates are automatically down for the count when it comes to political elections. After all, one of the big political platforms every election season is how politicians can get more so-called “young people,” involved. Yet often enough, college students that participate in the political process by running for election lose out to an older, …
The crowd gathered inside Coffman Memorial Theater, silent and somber. As the Hmong community and their leaders slowly filled the auditorium, tension and energy built among the assembled. These people sought vindication, healing and answers as they came up and sat down at the spot lit table on the stage. One by one, they sat and waited as a translator read their testimonies. One by one, …
