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Joshua Smeltzer
Joshua Smeltzer is interested in the intersection of violence, politics and geography. He is a senior at Colgate University, where he is majoring in Peace in Conflict Studies. In 2010, Joshua was a researcher for Colgate's Institute of Philosophy, Politics and Economics, and spent the summer interviewing veterans throughout the ...
Fukushima should be used as an incentive to replace nuclear energy with sustainable alternatives.
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Dam projects in the Indus River Basin make water a potential weapon that targets the internal stability of Pakistan. Without water access, Pakistan resort to violence.
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Realist conservatives in America should not be vilified by other conservatives as isolationists, as the U.S. needs to focus on its problems at home.
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In the world's most militarized space, environmental preservation should be used as a basis for mutual de-escalation.
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Access to water is a source of conflict between neighboring nations with scarce resources. Water disputes need to be resolved through a concerted international effort.
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- 11 months ago
Students may do their fair share of sleeping and Facebooking in the first years of college, but they also take classes with expert professors and learn by debating with a diverse group of peers.
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The simple idea of resource scarcity via population growth adds a new fold to the socio-political dangers of climate change. Understanding this phenomenon helps to better manage it.
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- 12 months ago
Public institutions are more than keggers and tailgates — they are leaders in research and produce graduates who can better give back to their communities.
Joshua Smeltzer Also, I found it interesting that you listed the CEOs of Berkshire Hathaway, Walmart, Intel, and Accenture as examples of high achieving public school graduates. I’m not sure that the exceptions should be used as the rule: as of 2009, the top 20 co...