The Final Countdown
Currently the Top 10 schools (in terms of points) are working hard on their final activist projects that will determine the winner of the Challenge. I hate to say it but slowly the OCC is wrapping up.*
Fortunately, ONE’s work never ends. I hate to plug this again but if you haven’t signed the petition to save $2.6 billion to fight poverty, do it and then spread the word! To put things in perspective, if you wanted to raise that much money with bake sale fundraisers by the ol’ girl scouts method you’d better pre-heat every oven on campus and reserve about 10 large buildings for the 200,000,000 cookies you’d be baking.
Then make a phone call (see previous post by Nick). If you can show you parents you changed U.S. foreign policy maybe they’ll pay to upgrade your plan.
In other news: you may have heard the name Jeffrey Sachs throw around a lot when people talk about development economics and you might be interested in his ideas. These lectures he delivered last year summarize his latest research and are the basis for his new book, Common Wealth coming out next week.
Finally, I’m an ROA for New England (the southern half) so I don’t want to sound too confident lest we get our hopes up and get crushed–like, say, in the Super Bowl–but go get ‘em Brandeis and Sacred Heart!
* – Don’t worry, as far as I know, the OCC is like the Hess truck: it’ll be back and better than ever next year.
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