Self-Portraits Operating systems our nation's colleges and universities

our nation's colleges and universities no longer embrace a clear and convincing definition of the purpose of a college education

At once a love song to his island home and to his parents

As our story opens

first with the thrill of being a hurricane pilot and then with Yvette Haddad

Self-Portraits Operating systems our nation's colleges and universities"Art dies the moment it acquires authority." So said Japan's quintessential rebel writer Osamu Dazai, who, disgusted with the hypocrisy of every kind of establishment, from the nation's obsolete aristocracy to its posturing, warmongering generals, went his own way, even when that meant his death and the death of others. Faced with pressure to conform, he declared his individuality to the world in all its self involved, self conscious, and self hating