Vanderbilt Stadium (photo by Frank Appleyard)
Memorial Gym (photo by Frank Appleyard)
This is what sports looks like to American college kids. Frank and I found our way into the gymnasium. After marvelling at the 14,000+ capacity of the place, we walked back through a few hallways, out a door and through a gate, and all of a sudden were standing on the football field. Now we find ourselves watching the Vanderbilt baseball team in the middle of batting practice.
Three major sports facilities beside eacher other, all on a university campus.
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Five Days reaches Vanderbilt
Frank and I left the hostel this morning and, after a couple of left turns, made it to the campus of Vanderbilt University. We spoke to Robert Barsky, the multi-disciplinary heart and soul of the school’s ever-expanding Canadian Studies Program.
We stopped in at the office of the Vanderbilt Hustler — no, not that Hustler. This one. Also of note, there are “progressive” and “conservative and libertarian” student papers here, too.
We are currently sitting in a courtyard outside of the student centre, and nearby is the famous Parthenon. Before we head that way, though, Frank and I are going to check out the football field. Which is mere minutes from campus. What a dream, sports fans.
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Five Days: Waking up to warmth
The Music City Hostel is our home for the next three nights. When we arrived last night, we were met by a whole lot of young people from all over the States — North Carolina, Alabama, Delaware, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania…
It feels quite bizarre to be back here after just about a year. Not much has changed, although the office in the main building has been “re-organized” (read: the desk was moved to the other side of the door).
Today, Frank and I will head to Vanderbilt University. Or somewhere near there, at least.
Oh, the title of the post serves only to brag about how warm it will be down here.
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Five Days to Nashville and back
The trip is off to a sunny start. Frank is currently on a train to Buffalo, and I am on a bus with a wireless connection that left an hour earlier than I had planned, and which goes straight to Buffalo’s airport. Not a bad opening act.
On the way downtown this morning, it took exactly five minutes on the GO Train to hear a story worth telling. I was sitting there, reading about a boy who died from H1N1, when all of a sudden: Continue reading ‘Five Days to Nashville and back’
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Making friends with enemies
I talked about how great Ed Broadbent, Bill Blaikie and Chuck Cadman were in a previous post. Here’s my question, which is quite simple:
Which sitting MPs have earned respect from all corners of the House?
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When I was even younger than I am now, I wrote a column in the Fulcrum quite often. I could do without most of those having been written — even my favourite, entitled “Fuck, just vote” — because, really, how useful were they to the on-campus greater good of the University of Ottawa?
One opinion I’m not ashamed to have is re-published below. Its title in print was the same as this post. For our purposes, this re-printing is a response to this, which linked to this. Continue reading ‘Ignorance aplenty: the rampant immaturity of political Ottawa’
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This time last year… [4]
I ambled around Nashville, Tennessee, looking for a fitting vantage point from which to record a video that documented some of the city and my experiences there. I ran into some zombies. Follow the first link for more on them.
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This time last year… [3]
I entered Cincinnati, Ohio and remained stuck there for about an hour. I recorded a video, and wrote about it in not-too-flattering terms:
I might be knocking Cincinnati for no good reason. I might just have been trying to fill time there by recording this uninspired video. But if someone can tell me something redeemable about Ohio’s southern terminus, I’ll be glad to hear it.
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Once the media pile-on began and outlet after outlet conducted independent analyses, the federal Conservatives had no chance. Whenever the official opposition Liberals (and presumably the NDP and Bloc Quebecois) join forces with any number of regional and national media to spread a message, that message will win the day. No question.
The message is: The Tories directed the vast majority of Canada’s Economic Action Plan™ stimulus to Conservative ridings for partisan gain.
Unfortunately, this conclusion is based on a false premise — that is, the Tories weren’t the only folks involved in doling out dollars. Continue reading ‘In defence of (some) Conservative stimulus’
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This time last year… [2]
I was on an 18-hour Greyhound odyssey that left Washington D.C. in the early hours of the morning. I had just finished talking to a gentleman named Mel, the relation of a Congressman who felt that Barack Obama’s election — still uncertain at the time — would end up setting back the civil rights movement by four decades.
Three transfers, one crying baby, one drunk Texan, several other quirky characters and three states later, I was in Columbus, Ohio. That was the day I tried to appreciate West Virginia.
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