by William Swart | Apr 14, 2019
In class on Wednesday we talked about the people who are running for president as Democrats in 2020. I am going to go through all of the candidates that have been polling nationally according to real clear politics. I am doing this all off of my current knowledge and...
by William Swart | Mar 24, 2019
On the way home from Los Angeles I had a lot of time to reflect, roughly 18 hours of travel to reflect. I realized how cyclical the PLA has ended up being for me. This all started with words from Dean Brady while at the post interview reception in Atherton. He told me...
by William Swart | Feb 24, 2019 |
In Wednesday’s class we had a brief and too short conversation about what will make a candidate a winner in 2020 and I have a few things I want to discuss on that point. One person in class voiced a belief that the two front runners will be white men, returning...
by William Swart | Jan 28, 2019 |
Here begins the semester of my peers and myself lamenting the end of our college journeys. The last week I heard on and on about how this was our last syllabus week. Soon will be our last THON, our last Blue and White game, and our last final. And after that we walk...
by William Swart | Oct 28, 2018
How Far Women have come and How Far Women have to Go Recently I have been seeing more and more headlines about a new female CEO or the record number of women running for office in the 2018 midterms[1]. At first my reaction was mild as I thought it not special that a...
by William Swart | Oct 8, 2018 |
It seems like the more you learn about subjects in school the more you learn that what you were taught before was wrong. In terms of voting we start off being taught that everyone has the right to vote, the right to participate in our democracy, and , what mattered...
by William Swart | Sep 9, 2018 |
This week we started our discussion on Lincoln. I knew this would be interesting because we would get to look into how Lincoln is not as perfect of a person as is described in popular culture. Of course he had a lot of great things he did for this country as he lead...
by William Swart | Apr 22, 2018
Three school trips out of state, a play, a conference, THON, class, 21st birthday, and those pesky classes still hanging around. It really has been a year to remember. Lets keep up the clichés and make a list of things I learned and I can vaguely elaborate on them! Be...
by William Swart | Apr 15, 2018
This last Saturday I broke the first ever elections for my THON org. We have 3 execs within our organization (I’ll be addressing them as president, vice-President, and treasurer). I need to provide a bit more background on these roles. So first off, these three roles...
by William Swart | Apr 1, 2018
So elections for my THON org are coming up soon (a first as we switch to elections this year). In order to encourage people to run the leaders decided to have a phase of nominating people to positions. It took the onus of applying off of the individual and has worked...
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