March 31st, 2009
Steffen Graae, UD’s Neighbor …

… when she lived on Capitol Hill, died too soon.

But before he died, Judge Graae had a chance to do something brave and important.  He had the guts to put the DC housing authority in receivership, and many, many people benefited from this.

The drama at Clemson University, starring a retired French professor, is kind of like that.   John Bednar has obviously decided, at an advanced age, to do something brave and important.   He has very publicly accused the Clemson administration of serious corruption, and he continues to do so.

For this, he has been pilloried by Clemson’s leadership, and by many in the Clemson community.

We should all be so lucky.

March 3rd, 2009
“Day full-blown and splendid-day of the immense sun, action, ambition, laughter …”

UD salutes the young idealists featured in the three posts below. They are students at Harvard, the University of Minnesota, and George Washington University.

The words in my title come from Walt Whitman.

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