This week's top story, "Honor standard inconsistent in academic, social settings," paints a grim picture of how honor currently operates on campus. The idea that academic honor is held to a higher standard than honor in social settings is problematic.

In January, two controversial acts introduced to address the problem of internet piracy, titled SOPA and PIPA, were both shelved amid massive backlash from the internet community. Countless E-mails and phone calls from constituents came "in the 11th hour" and struck both bills down.

As a sophomore, I'm incredibly excited to spend next fall semester studying abroad in Argentina, discovering a new culture, and having what I hope will be an enlightening experience. However, what I am not looking forward to is the housing situation that I will be confronted with upon returning to campus.

      It's about 1:00 am on any given Saturday at Davidson College. After a night down the hill, students begin to stumble and bumble back to their respective apartments and dorm rooms. Along the brick paths that wind across campus are a multitude of lampposts.

Recently, Davidson has redesigned The Crier, the daily e-mail to all students detailing the daily events at Davidson. Also, just this past Monday, Davidson redesigned their main website. But is change for the better? Starting with the Crier, the new Crier presents itself as a cluttered, hard to read mess that provides less information in a harder to read format, especially on an iPhone or other mobile device, which is where most people probably read The Crier when it comes in.

End Greek social Monopoly, decrease paper flier usage

I've always been a little bit wary of the Greek social system, but it wasn't until the other day that I realized one of the things that bothered me most about the way it works at Davidson. They hold an effective monopoly on weekend parties. Greek houses are good for parties in that they are a supervised space.

6:00 a.m., January 27th, 2012, had finally arrived. As freshmen girls eagerly awaited in their rooms, upperclassmen danced, stuffed goodie bags, and began to wonder why they had not stopped to take at least a nap at any point in the past 20+ hours. Excitement hung in the air as we reflected on our own self-selection nights: the jitters, the nerves, the changing out of pajamas and into cute clothes even though we weren't supposed to know the sophomores were coming….

College administrations in the US are constantly searching for policy solutions that will create both harmony and safety on campuses. Here at Davidson, one answer is salutary neglect. Some examples of common salutary neglect include: Keep the door shut and don't play your music too loudly; no one will have any reason to question the legality of what you are doing behind your closed door.

A Fellowship of Christian Athletes journal defined hypocrisy as the gap that exists between our public and private lives. Stealing is clearly done furtively, with the goal of secrecy. No thief would ever write about his actions in The Davidsonian or discuss them openly.

Ideas for 2012 and beyond

I'm going to continue this week by keeping up a high pace of ideas in hopes that one or more of them will catch on with time left in the semester to make them happen. Please contact me if you have an idea you think would be appropriate for this column! We have a lot of really talented visual artists at this school, but sometimes the VAC feels just a bit far away.