The Ranger Challenge came and went; there’s nothing I can say about that I haven’t already said. It always sort of seems like – with the Challenge, I mean – I’m either bragging or complaining, so I’m not going to really go into it. We took a solid second out of 26 schools (and a lot of them are a big, big schools). It’s been over for a couple weeks now and I’m still waiting on getting a solid CD of the all pictures. As soon as I do, I’ll post ’em and shoot out a link. In the meantime, here are two new columns by your favorite rhetorician:
On my wonderful Oregon
http://www.trumanindex.com/media/paper607/news/2005/09/29/Opinions/Back-From.Abroad.Columnist.Reminisces.About.Oregon.Life-1002357.shtml
Definitely isn’t my best column, but it does make for interesting reading:
http://www.trumanindex.com/media/paper607/news/2005/10/20/Opinions/Americans.Will.Be.WellServed.When.They.Think.For.Themselves-1025804.shtml
& a letter-to-the-editor about that last column
http://www.trumanindex.com/media/paper607/news/2005/10/27/Letters/Columnists.Take.On.War.On.Terror.Was.Based.On.Misrepresentations-1034419.shtml
and, as an added bonus I’ve attached my first photographic work ever published. The Monitor is the campus alternative newspaper, and I submitted (I hope to make it a habit) a photo of mine, which they promptly -and surprisingly – ran. I plan on using the Monitor to express viewpoints that might be a little too extremist for the Index and my official, Army-bound career, hence my uber-clever and unhackable Monitor-pseudonym Fosh Jenton (visible in the bottom right corner). Speaking honestly, one of the strongest lessons I’ve learned in college is the extreme value of Plausible Deniablity.
yours,
Captian Colossal
