America is a mish-mosh of cultures. I’ve heard this axiom since I was old enough to count in double digits. Sometimes it’s a melting pot, other times an orchestra. Nevertheless, the melding of cultures is one of the lauded principles of modern America. However, it is this principle that is often misused, or not used at [...]

Signs dictate action. If we see a green traffic light, we know that means we can go. If we see a “please seat yourself” hanging board upon walking into a restaurant, we know that we don’t need to wait for the maitre d’ to assign us our table. Visual images, in this way, dictate the world [...]

For a while now I’ve been following boston.com’s photo blog, The Big Picture.  Several times a month they’ll post a set of pictures relating to current events, recent and upcoming holidays, and seasonal changes.  They’re beautiful photos, but I’ve also checked them out because I thought they provided a useful perspective on recent events.  Reading about the success [...]

When one hears the name Dr. Martin Luther King, fried chicken, biscuits, cobb salad, and fried okra are usually not the first things that come to mind. Eating dinner in South Quad on Monday night, I was perturbed by the “Martin Luther King Day” themed meal. For me, the theme took a true hero and [...]