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Sept. 19, 2016 — One of my favorite aphorists — Heraclitus — said, “The people should fight for their law, as they do for their city wall.”

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Relief Efforts in White Sulphur Springs

June 28, 2016 — Meet Sonya. She’s a nurse. She helps people for a living.

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7 Reasons to Try Summer Courses

June 2, 2016 — To all who take the occasional college course: If you like to learn all year long, if short-term, concentrated courses fit your learning style, if you have too much free time in the summer and if you just want to hurry up and graduate, you could do worse than to take some summer courses.

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Learning to Learn

April 18, 2016 — Last semester I took Contemporary Issues, a course required of all Southern Virginia students in order to graduate.

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‘Specialization is for Insects’: The Purpose of Education

April 6, 2016 — Robert A. Heinlein, an influential and popular science fiction writer, once wrote, “A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”

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Travel Study in Paris

March 31, 2016 — If you graduate from Southern Virginia University without taking advantage of Travel Study, you’ve really missed out.

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The Theory of the Best Local Burger

Feb. 8, 2016 — Over the summer I was peer-pressured into adding a course to my already full schedule for the coming fall semester.

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Navigating the Literary Labyrinth

Dec. 14, 2015 — If you’re anything like me, you’re very good at being halfway through half a dozen books at any given moment and not so good at getting to the end of any one of them.

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Piano Recital

Dec. 8, 2014 — A few days ago, a friend suggested that I read a famous speech about music delivered by Karl Paulnack at the Boston Conservatory in 2004.

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Remembering Dr. King

Jan. 20, 2014 — I can imagine no greater tribute that can be paid to a human than to suspend school once a year in their honor.