Every Fifteen Minutes

This week I am faced with the daunting task of submitted a completed Methods & Methodology term paper. Good. Great. Grand.

In other news, I recently had catch up time with one of my friends from the School of Americas trip I attend last semester. She told me about a program she participated in called 'Every Fifteen Minutes' in which a drunken car crash is staged. She partook as one of the victims. The program is sort of a fake-out for the student body. Students witness the fake death of one of their classmates so that the death hits closer to home, then it is revealed that it was staged. This is designed to warn as well as scare teenagers out of drunk driving. I am thinking of having either NDNU or Notre Dame High School host a program, though our students are relatively responsible with drinking and driving. I know of one NDNU student with DUI. There is a lot of planning and thought that needs to go into this project.

Props must be donated

The city of Belmont must approve

The police and fire departments need to agree to participate

The administration needs to see it's purpose and support it

Comment on this post and share your thoughts! I'd like to have a few opinions before I take the proposal to my community partner.

And now for my weekly shpeel:

I am sad to have missed Dr. Ferdowsi's party today. I didn't go because I was feeling intensely ill when the group left.

I am, at the moment, feeding my interest in abstract philosophy...Nietzsche's concept of the Eternal Return.

Study Questions:

1.) Why are trials so exorbitantly priced?

2.) How is the state plan for choosing appellate judges determined?

3.) Page 224 states that while crime rates are down, incarceration rates are rising. What factors are attributable to this counter-intuitive negative correlation?