Alma Matters: Thoughts on Today's Students
Every year about this time, I get the back-to-school itch. The smell of plastic pencil cases fills the air, and I dream about the days when I broke in a pair of stiff new oxfords, donned an itchy Black Watch plaid jumper, and trudged off to School 84.
Who’s the Boss? Deborah Paul on Discipline
If kids knew what to do, they'd be adults. It's our job to turn them into the latter.
Editor's Note: June 2012
Maybe I’ll text Patrick a picture of myself first, shooting him a dirty look—for old times’ sake.
Letter from Guatemala: Steps Forward for a Patient and a Nation
Editor’s Note: Our correspondent, Alex Farris, is a research writer with the Center for Hip & Knee Surgery in Mooresville. As part of Operation Walk, he recently traveled to Guatemala with a surgeon from the clinic, Dr. Merrill Ritter, and agreed to update IM with a series of dispatches. Read the first and second at Circle Citizen. The third installment follows.
AMA: Will Shortz, New York Times Puzzle Editor
He’s lived in New York for decades, but the crossword puzzle editor of The New York Times is still a Hoosier at heart. And he has plans for leaving his mark on his home state.
Phil Gulley: The Things She'll Carry
"When my wife goes back inside for my writing table and the pendulum clock, I might have her grab my grandpa Hank’s fly fishing rod that hangs on my office wall. Plus, there’s my pocketknife collection. I sure would hate to lose those."
AMA: Angela Braly
"I don’t think (women) are being specifically excluded. But I don’t think these organizations that are involved in public policy are thinking, Let’s invite women. The other thing is that women don’t have the same level of confidence to go into a place where they want to feel prepared, educated, and ready."
