Boston University Trustee Scholars are encouraged to develop well-informed and well-reasoned views of important political, social, and artistic issues. We try to select students who have a sense of how to present persuasive arguments in support of their views. With that in mind, write an essay of
no more than 600 words responding to one of the following statements:

1. Electricity generation via nuclear power produces no greenhouse gases, but does produce a small volume of very dangerous radioactive waste.

2. The citizens of France and the Netherlands voted to reject the proposed constitution for the European Union.

3. “A real tradition is not the relic of a past irretrievably gone; it is a living force that animates and informs the present...Far from implying the repetition of what has been, tradition presupposes the reality of what endures. It appears as an heirloom, a heritage that one receives on condition of making it bear fruit before passing it on to one’s descendants“ (Igor Stravinsky, 1882–1971).