Op-Ed

With 16 years of experience in Congress, former Republican congressman Mickey Edwards undoubtedly has a unique perspective of the role that college students can have in the U.S. government. I sat down with Edwards to discuss his views on whether college students can, in fact, affect change.

Okay, so I have to admit: I love Twitter. Is it entirely useless? Yeah, pretty much. But I’ve grown to love it. I don’t go out of my way to follow a lot of people, but I do keep in touch with one of my close friends, Katy, a sophomore at Oberlin College. Around 1 a.m. on Sept. 26, she posted: “Peter V arrested in a park while G20 medic-ing.

At this time last year, young people all across the country were organizing for what would be the most historically significant presidential election in decades. Spurred on by the possibility to create “change,” those who participated in it wondered whether there would ever be such an opportunity again.

K has always touted the individual attention and personalization that its education provides. However, this freedom has only actually existed within the grounds of selecting how we fulfill the K plan’s requirements. Most of the requirements are for our own good. They force us to provide assets that will prove useful after we graduates… mostly.

Contrary to popular belief, the K Plan—that ideal combination of a liberal arts curriculum, the SIP, study abroad, and career development experiences (e.g., externships, internships, and guild participation)—loses nothing by forgoing

Why has Kalamazoo College traditionally been viewed as a liberal arts college?

When you unexpectedly see someone walking their puppy on K College’s campus, does it just make your day? Can the mere glimpse of a cute kitten prowling through the grove of Living Learning Houses bring a grin to your face? When you’re stressed from exams, do you feel like if you could just hug Fluffy, everything would be better?

I am an excellent student. I’m not trying to brag; there are many characters flaws I possess. However, being a bad student isn’t one of them.

I have always prided myself of my academic ability. That is, until early in fall quarter of this year, as I sat in my first day of class in Spanish 201. Described as “grammar intensive” it was a class I had been putting off throughout K.

Monte Carlo has always been my favorite event at K. A night of cards and fine clothes placed right in the middle of the glum winter is always a real pick-me-up.