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Reynolds: Boren OU expulsions violated the First Amendment
University of Tennessee law professor Glenn Reynolds, writing in USA Today, about OU president David Boren's decision to expel two students and a fraternity for a video containing racist speech: As a state institution, the University of Oklahoma is constrained by the Constitution. Among other things, that means that it...
MIT's football team
My alma mater, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is not known as an athletic powerhouse, but MIT does offer a surprisingly large number of varsity intercollegiate teams (at times it's had more varsity teams than any other college and the school has national championships in sailing and pistol). The 'tute...
City best place to ride out societal collapse?
Back in the 1990s, companies spent billions correcting the Y2K bug, and many worried that mass chaos would ensue when buggy software failed on 1/1/2000, disrupting banking systems, financial markets, power grids, and food distribution. Many believed the best way to ride out the impending crisis was rural self-sufficiency: enough...
"Let the rush begin"
I received an e-mail earlier this week from my college fraternity, Xi Chapter of Zeta Beta Tau, about their upcoming rush week activities. Saturday: All-you-can-eat steak and lobster dinner and a casino night. Sunday: Building potato guns, canoeing on the Charles River. Monday (Labor Day): Paintball, barbecue, geocaching. Tuesday: Bowling,...
"Der Kommitet bet men zol rayden vayneeger oon davenen mehrer!"
Tonight I've come across a few interesting links about Jewish history in Oklahoma. In honor of Passover, which began Wednesday night, here they are. The quote in the title is from a brief history of Congregation B'nai Emunah (PDF format), and it's a reminiscence of the mid-1930s: Mrs. Harry Cohen,...
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