February 2011
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The Lottery as a Blessing or a Curse
It’s difficult to move from one social system into another. Think about the transition from eight grade to high school, or high school to college, or the military to college, or the working world back to school. Or consider the social anxiety that is produced by a divorce. At issue is that each social system [...]
Scholarships for white men
“This is really about broadening your horizons and looking at the entire scope of the population. If we’re willing to offer scholarships to group one, two, three, or four…but group five isn’t allowed to have scholarships, then that’s a logical fallacy.” Essential, these are folks who want to offer class-based assistance to college for white [...]
Aging Out
In 1975, Tyrone Werts was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison at the age of twenty-five. He has since been involved in the lifer’s organization, the Board of Directors of Reconstruction, Inc., The Victim Offender Reconciliation Program, the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, the End Violence Project, workshops focusing [...]
Stranger Kidnapping
Why are we afraid of things that are so uncommon? People who study risk and children say that the best advice that you could give to your child is “to talk with strangers when you have a problem.” Why is that? Because 99.99 percent of the time strangers will help. Not speaking with strangers is [...]