Something about The Island really clicked with me.

Was it the outlandish stunts and over-the-top action, combined with a message about the price of human life? Was it the romance? The fact that it doesn’t rely on shock obscenities or lewdness to fill up screentime? (ChristianAnswers gives it the coveted Moral Rating of “Better Than Average“) Read on…

When I first started to become upset about PDEng, I remember that one of the ways I considered “taking action” was to set up a publicly-accessible discussion forum that students could participate in.

I knew that students would (mostly) use it anonymously. I knew that the pages of it would begin to show up on Google, polluting the reputation of the program. This, I thought grimly to myself, would force the school’s hand into either a) asking that the forum be shut down, or b) taking genuine action in acknowledging and fixing the various problems with their program.

But I never set it up, and this is why: How could you ever moderate such a discussion? Whether the intention was to discuss actual fixes or simply moan and complain, how could you draw the line on what’s acceptable? Read on…