"After Class, Skimpy Inequality"

College campuses are incredibly sexually charged. People are experimenting, they are less inhibited, and they are actively trying to go out and have fun. As a result of the growing promise of sexuality, women are repeatedly objectified Girls are expected to dress up, because they will be chosen. Like prizes, they are to be picked out. Frats decide who they are going to let in their doors, and they are more inclined to let in somewhat scantily clad girls as opposed to other, competing, males. I think college enables, and sometimes encourages, both sexes to conform to gender roles. Guys try to chase girls, and girls are to accept and enable such advances. Even still, as one University of Utah junior phrased it, “College isn’t supposed to adhere to the rules of the real world.” But then, it does, doesn’t it? Males are highly encouraged to begin courtships- by initiating dates, paying for dates, and simply offering to pay for dates.  They are expected to do the pursuing. I think the media is partly to blame for the injustice between the sexes, but it does not make getting into parties any easier if you happen to be dressed conservatively because you disagree with the practice. I don’t think enough people were offended by the Duke Halloween party not to go, and that the college atmosphere greatly affects students’ decisions on where and what they should be doing, especially after dark. Peer pressure, then, remains a huge factor in what college kids decide to do for fun, despite the insistence students relay to both their parents and to their friends. No one wants to be left out of the fun, and sometimes that means coming up with a way to get past the initial inspections at the doors.

Mountains Beyond Mountains

Farmer affects Haiti with the spirit he brings to his physical work. When asked whether he expected others to replicate his efforts, he grins and replies, “fuck you” (42). He wants to instill in his medical staff the spirit to dedicate themselves to the patients, just as he does. He walks miles to reach single patients. He improves the lives of his patients by building them houses and latrines and schools. His spirit is partly due to the fact that the bigger picture can only be reached by surmounting the more basic, and more easily identifiable obstacles like fresh water. Once he deals with that, and the squalor some of his patients live in when all they desire is “dignified poverty”, he can wipe out diseases further. Farmer’s work is so spirited because he is empathetic, but also because he is extremely outcome-oriented. He has an end goal for these people, and he stops at nothing to help them get there. His physical work, then, is just an expression of his spirit.