This is a fun and heart-warming short 10 minute documentary about an after school program in North Philadelphia. The program leader sets up skype sessions with kids across the world to facilitate cultural exchange. I wish it was not so focused on the male students, and I wish it gave a little more context on the program, but it is a very cool way to educate kids about different cultures.  

http://www.upworthy.com/a-boy-in-america-explains-to-a-girl-on-the-other-side-of-the-globe-how-racism-feels?c=ufb0

Over the past few days, I have had a few conversations that have made me wonder about racial sensitivity in the Bi-Co. First, I was at dinner with friends, when one of them used the word gypped, as in he gypped me out of something. I let my friend know that the word shouldn’t be used, as it comes from the word Gypsy, and is thus obviously pretty offensive. She did not realize where the word came from, and was happy to have been informed of such. Another person at the table said that it was similar to the word jewed, but that jewed was more offensive, particularly in the Bi-Co, because there are more people who identify as Jewish than Gypsy. I was happy that we had this conversation, and it raised for me the question of why language is so important.

Earlier today Bryn Mawr students, faculty, and staff were the recipients of a few emails announcing a few exciting changes to the college's admission policies: transwomen, nonbinary, intersex, and gender-noncomforming individuals will also be eligable to admission to Bryn Mawr for the 2015/2016 school year. In the words of Arlene Gibson, the Chair of the BMC Board of Trustees, "in addition to those applicants who were assigned female at birth, the applicant pool will be inclusive of transwomen and of intersex individuals who live and identify as women at the time of application.

high school in a vine.

High school, to me, most closely resembles a marathon that someone else signed you up for and expects you to finish. But then even when the marathon is over, it's effects are everlasting, like that toenail that never grew back or that hamstring that never healed again. In this sense, high school sets you up for the rest of your life, but the experiences you gain from it are strictly dictated by the school district or school administrators.

Introduction/rationale

In much of the art about our ecological reality,

Dear Science Faculty,

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