The Desert Lamp

From 2008 to 2011, I was a co-founder and blogger at the Desert Lamp, an independent student news blog designed to make student media more competitive and student government more accountable. In addition to in-depth coverage of campus policy and politics, I organized advocacy projects to directly influence policy. We won a $10,000 prize and were named the best libertarian college bloggers in the US. You can see all of my posts here, but these are a few of my favorites:

• 2011 student fee spending roundup (2/9/2011)
• Red light, green light (2/3/2011)
• Tyrannosaurus Rec (1/20/2011)
• Obama in Tucson: Healing, humility, civility (1/13/2011)
• Incidence and accidents (11/22/2010)
• 2010 ASUA budget analysis (8/26/2010)
• Signing meets signaling (4/26/2010)
• A brief history of fees (3/9/2010)
• Process, not programs: A Mad Fee manifesto (2/27/2010)
• Misrepresenting misconduct (4/16/2009)
• Defending Dean Kamen (4/6/2009)
• Career opportunities: the fatal conceit of national service (3/27/2009)
• No such thing as a free ride (3/25/2009)
• Pseudo-crime & Punishment (3/3/2009)
• To serve, man (11/20/2008)
• Campus politics and the English language (10/13/2008)
• Agents of the nanny state (10/6/2008)

Arizona Daily Wildcat

I was opinions editor of the Arizona Daily Wildcat for the 2007-2008 school year. I wrote staff editorials almost every day and a column every week. The online Wildcat archives are in bad shape, but you can read most of my columns here and editorials here. Here are a few examples:

• Student loans: The latest credit crisis (4/29/2008)
• Change your thinking on climate change (3/26/2008)
• Filesharing folly (3/4/2008)
• Know your rights: The 4th Amendment on campus (3/3/2008)
• Abolish student government: The case against ASUA (2/6/2008)
• Conscience and construction (1/29/2008)
• Shocking the Youtube generation (11/2/2007)
• Books and bits (10/18/2007)
• Watching the Wildcat (10/15/2007)
• Death in the desert: The human cost of border security is growing (9/18/2007)
• Mobile phones, markets and a development miracle (8/31/2007)

Elsewhere

• I wrote an article on the Millenial Generation for UA Alumnus magazine.
• I keep a personal blog on Tumblr. Once in a while, I’ll post an essay or high-concept Sherlock Holmes fan fiction.