A Warm Welcome to David Wippman

January 01, 2016 by Enquiry Editor in Editorial, Volume 3 Issue 13, The Editors

Hamilton College recently hit a low point when activists calling themselves “the Movement” made national headlines for their laughable list of “demands” that sent college administrators scrambling to appease them in one way or another.

Fortunately, Hamilton followed up the low point with a high point the very next week. On December 11, Hamilton announced the selection of a new college president. David Wippman, a professor of international law and the Dean of the University of Minnesota Law School, will assume the office in July 2016.

Rural Dependence on Mass Incarceration

December 17, 2015 by Michael Levy in Lucas Phillips

Prison population reduction has started making inroads in mainstream public policy, most notably with the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act, currently under consideration in Congress. How to resolve mass incarceration has been a source of partisan debate, but prison reform has become a bipartisan concern.

Wilson, Root, and Historical Standards

December 07, 2015 by Michael Levy in Volume 3 Issue 14, Patrick J. Bedard '14

Lafayette College is a small, elite liberal arts institution in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley, well known for its robust academics and picturesque campus. One of Lafayette’s particularly breathtaking buildings is the Kirby Hall of Civil Rights—said to be one of the most expensive buildings per square foot when it was constructed in the 1920s—which boasts a stately Roman-revival exterior, a grand travertine marbled-clad entryway, and an airy, oak paneled-library.

How Hamilton’s Leaders Have Failed Their Students

December 07, 2015 by Michael Levy in Volume 3 Issue 14, Mike Adamo

Last week, the group of Hamilton College activists known as “the Movement” released a lengthy list of demands to almost universal ridicule. Few Hamilton students respect the Movement’s childish and arrogant calls for public apologies, special attention, and, of course, money. Our college administrators, meanwhile, rushed to validate the protesters’ demands and feelings.

Salvaging a Campus Conversation

December 07, 2015 by Michael Levy in Volume 3 Issue 14, Ben Wesley

After the Movement released its demands, the overwhelming majority of students made it clear that they disagreed with the list. And with good reason—the demands were so radical that they could easily have been mistaken for satire.

Cost of Dermatology Drugs Rising

November 30, 2015 by Michael Levy in Volume 3 Issue 13, Phil Parkes

In 2009, Steven Rosenberg, a practicing dermatologist from West Palm Beach, Florida joined forces with his daughter, currently a medical student at the University of Pennsylvania, to survey the cost of popular prescription skin-care medicines. They wanted to educate local dermatologists about the prices of drugs they were prescribing to patients on a daily basis.