• Hooray For Our Side

    We began our football season last week with a loss in double overtime to Kenyon College, the alma mater of Rutherford B. Hayes.

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  • Holy Days

     We have just begun the four and a half month span -- between the solemnities of the Assumption (August 15) and Mary, Mother of God (January 1) -- into which all our holy days of obligation are now compressed.

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  • The Lake

    Chemists and economists speak of equilibrium conditions, where the concentrations of reactants and products, or supply and demand, are in balance.

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  • Jeremiah Revisited

    Last month, California’s Senate passed a bill (SB 360) that would require priests to report crimes of child abuse they hear in confession.

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  • Suppose We Let the People Decide

    This week, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in Franchise Tax Board of California v. Hyatt that states have sovereign immunity from suits brought by individuals in the courts of another state.

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  • Look At This

    I am so proud of our students.  This month the Student Government Association, the body that represents our undergraduates, passed a resolution asking the University to prohibit access through the campus network to the 200 most frequently visited pornography websites.

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  • Not So Fast

    I probably shouldn’t admit this in front of my grandchildren, but I am a fan of McDonald’s fish sandwiches.

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  • Jim Crow

    By now I think almost everyone has seen the photograph from Governor Ralph Northam’s yearbook -- a man in blackface standing next to a hooded Klansman.

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  • One Man’s Meat

    One of our girls gave me a book for Christmas, One Man’s Meat by E.B. White.  We agreed to start a little book club, just the two of us -- coffee once a month to talk about it.

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