Monday morning roundup

College students are hurting.

It's disingenuous to talk about the area's Catholic universities--and their treatment of Muslim students--as if they were monolithic. Georgetown and Catholic are two very different places. In fact, a friend of mine (more or less agnostic) from grad school (Georgetown) opted out of law school at Catholic because it was too overwhelmingly Catholic.

The Maryland Natural Resources police really doesn't know how to pick their battles.

I wish this article on Moscow's ice sculpture culture had more photos.

Oooh! The winter solstice is to be celebrated with azuki concoctions, among other things. I love azuki-based foods. Food aside, I wish the author had included a discussion of Zoroastrian traditions--it would be only appropriate, since the sun is so central to their beliefs.