Category Archives: Wild Card

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Income Inequality: What Can You Do?

Posted on April 22, 2014 by Rachael Swokowski

For my spread a message, I decided to take my Prezi offline and transform it into a poster so that I could more easily talk about wealth inequality here on campus. I decided that the best place to try to … Continue reading →

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My Wikipedia Edit

Posted on April 15, 2014 by Kayla Pilkington

I chose to edit the Chi Omega Wikipedia page. Editing a Wikipedia page is a difficult task because multiple pages are locked, and the editors do a great job of taking down all biases. If a site is biases however they put … Continue reading →

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Writing for Wikipedia or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Coding

Posted on April 15, 2014 by Hannah Gentry

I have a new found respect for Wikipedia contributors. For our Wikipedia Creation, I decided to fill a void in the Wiki-verse. I am an intern with the David Mathews Center for Civic Life (not that Dave Matthews), and the … Continue reading →

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The Digital Divide and Education

Posted on February 18, 2014 by Lauren Wallis

I should thank you all; our class last week inspired a (hopefully) fun and engaging new activity I’m going to do during library instruction for English Composition students (under construction here). It was really interesting to hear you talk about … Continue reading →

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Broken Democracy: Why I Should Pay Closer Attention to Edward Snowden

Posted on February 5, 2014 by Andrew Battista

You are someone who is smart enough, idealistic enough, bold enough to know that living with yourself in a system of utter corruption would destroy that self as an ideal, as something worth being. Doing what you’ve done, on the … Continue reading →

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Using the Master’s Tools

Posted on January 21, 2014 by Lauren Wallis

Audre Lorde said that the master’s tools could never dismantle the master’s house.  She was talking about feminist women working within the patriarchal structure of academia, but her words make sense in many contexts where information is created and/or knowledge … Continue reading →

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