Ramsey Scott

Open letter to the Tobacco Workgroup

Despite what the town hall meeting and initial survey might suggest, our group maintains that the student body is far from apathetic.

Seeing the cultural light

Making the effort to step outside of one’s own experience and base of knowledge is an integral part of the collegiate experience. That said, while I think it important to stress accountability on the part of students, I also want to recognize that it indeed takes a certain amount of courage to attend an event where you may not know anyone or might know little about the culture of the group running the event.

The potency of academic culturalism

From the brutality of colonization to the intense competition in manufacturing, design, and innovation, the triangular relationship between Japan, China, and South Korea is at best tumultuous and ambiguous, and at worst fraught with irreconcilable animosity. That said, however, no triangular relationship in Asia is as crucial for the peaceful and prosperous development of the region.

Summer lovin'

It’s difficult to summarize a summer (to summerize it, if you will), but I’ll do my best.

Bittersweet memories at graduation

I started practicing the meditation exercises of Falun Gong in 1995 with my parents in mainland China. Those were happier days.

Dressing the Part

I was deeply upset at the way I’d misrepresented both Orthodox Judaism and myself, and by how, in less then two minutes, I’d managed to make my life and my choices sound silly.