Falling leaves, falling hopes

It’s oddly warm for October in New Jersey. I am sitting at my desk in my institutionally colored dorm room (hooray for dorm life), and looking out my window to see the myriad of oranges, yellows, browns and reds. Fall is a beautiful season to be on a college campus. I really don’t stop to appreciate it enough.

This week at the Governor’s Office I finished logging in all the newspaper names in NJ, who knew there was such a paper as the Item of Millburn?! It’s interesting to see what is read where and how some newspapers reach only a town, while others transcend counties. I could draw you the county map of NJ with my eyes closed now.

The internship search is going. Spring 09 should be an alright intern season, I only have class 2 days a week. Thus I will devote my time to doing the lowly mans work.

I fear however, the graduating part of being a senior. As I am an old person in college (ie I listen to NPR, read the newspaper, am looking into Roth IRAs and go to bed before 11:30) I worry that when I get out, I will be some party clown because of this whole economic mess.

Maybe I should start looking for a red nose.

Law and Order SVU takes on interesting media question

I was watching Law and Order SVU, as I enjoy to do, and the episode was about a 13-year-old boy who raped other children. However, he claimed not to believe what he was doing was wrong because he saw it on television. He watched cable television series where sex was a major theme. After people had sex on these shows, they were respected and “cool”. To him, sex was just a set of rules to follow, objections and all.

This boy’s defense was that since the media saturated the airwaves with such content, that they are  responsible for the boy’s actions. His attorney argued that  the boy thought that this type of conduct was normal and how adults acted, and he wanted to be an adult.

Although, this is just a fictional television series, it raises some questions? Could a case like this occur? Could the media be blamed for the actions of others?

A Little Activism is Good for the Soul

Ello All!

So this week is going by. I have a dinner date tonight with Jess, last year’s president of Vox: Voices for Planned Parenthood. I love Vox, and have been on the exec board since freshman year. So seeing her will be nice.

Last night I was thinking about how great the Internet is at connecting. You can find almost anyone. When you want college kids, you go to Facebook. Vox is a nation wide organization, so many many colleges and universities have a Vox. I wanted to connect them.

So with a little research, evidently there is an amplifier named VOX, I tracked down a lot of the presidents of the organizations through Facebook. I sent a message asking them to join the new global Vox facebook group. From last night to about 2 minutes ago 20 people joined! Now granted, there are groups with a much larger membership, but still 20 people for one niche cause in less than 24 hours, I am ecstatic! If you want to find out more about Rider Vox you can come to the meetings on Wednesday at 10 in Memorial 112 or check us out of Facebook.

peace.love.choice.

me