Full disclosure--this is probably the most narcissistic page on the website. I'm aware of it. Nothing I can do to help it.  Sorry.  If you're here, you might also find the Creative Writing page of interest.  But you just as easily might not.

Advocate Article

"The DeGraff Debate" columns from The Butler Collegian

Have you ever read an opinion column in a newspaper and thought the argument was weak, the writing cold or the grammar un-English?  I've learned never to blame the writer.  Instead, blame the editor--the one who's face isn't above the text.  Just kidding.  That said, editors are a funky bunch.

Not to be too ungrateful, but once a column is submitted, it was out of my hands, and a lot changes were made that seem to add nothing.  In the columns I wrote my Senior year for the Butler Collegian editors deleted sentences or words that added clarity.  Things like first names, predicates, verbs, whatever, were chopped off.  References to kittens appear inexplicably. 

That said, I'm not perfect, and I never submitted a perfect column.  But please don't use these as final judgments about my ability to write grammatically correct, cogent sentences.  If you want to see it as I wrote it, e-mail me. 

Articles that quote/cite me

Selected Butler Collegian Articles from way back (some co-written with Nicholas Adamski):