Monday, 6th September 2010

A Full-Throated Apology

Posted on 24. Feb, 2010 by Michael Neil in Uncategorized

As I sit here, I am virtually in tears…for this paper, any writing I do in the future, and the pain caused by me to the Clarion editors and staff.  I did not intentionally thieve any text from the Clarion article.  It would have been better had I not read it at all.  My memory allowed me [...]

Why We Should Worry About Haiti’s Rebuilding Process: A Historical Lesson

Posted on 04. Feb, 2010 by Michael Neil in Op-Ed, [Inter]national

Why We Should Worry About Haiti’s Rebuilding Process: A Historical Lesson

With the news that over one million Haitians remain homeless and that efforts are shifting away from the construction of permanent housing in favor of do-it-yourself wooden and, occasionally, steel structures, concern over the future of Haiti’s rebuilding process abounds.  Even the International Organization for Migration sees few permanent structures emerging in less than five [...]

A Call for Living Wages

Posted on 23. Nov, 2009 by Michael Neil in Around Campus, Featured

A Call for Living Wages

Our tale begins in an eight by twelve foot cell…or, at least one strand of it does. Perhaps the room has a few windows. Perhaps it has only one. It could be in Texas, or maybe California, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Oklahoma, or Tennessee. It might even be in our very own [...]


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