When I arrived at Berkeley in 1985, I saw a makeshift shantytown on the campus. It called attention to apartheid in South Africa and sparked my awareness of that situation and of politics in general. I mean, the campus was steeped in political protest since the free speech movement decades earlier had ignited a trend—thatContinue reading “Campuses: WTF?”
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How to Describe Me?
How would you describe yourself to someone? This is a tough question. As humans, we identify ourselves in different ways, and for different reasons. A professional bio reads differently than a dating profile, for example, and it’s possible that something from the former could scare away people from the latter. (Though one time I didContinue reading “How to Describe Me?”
Nickname?
What’s the story behind your nickname? In another blog post I talked about the origin of my avatar’s name, and how I came up with Phorkyad Acropolis. Here we focus on my real life name. To begin, I don’t really have a nickname, per se. My birth certificate says, “Stephen Alan Schrum.” My mother onceContinue reading “Nickname?”
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