Spring Break
Drexel losing a court case to 18 MBA students should come as no surprise. The University collected money from the students for a trip to China, then canceled the trip over legitimate concerns of SARS and did not reimburse the students, forcing them to approach the courts.
Kudos to James Mack Jr. for writing an excellent column ("Drug decriminalization will benefit nations, abusers," The Triangle, Feb. 13, p. 13). The drug war is largely a war on marijuana, by far the most popular illicit drug.
James Mack Jr. is right on target ("Drug decriminalization will benefit nations, abusers," The Triangle, Feb. 13, p. 13), but the word he is looking for is not "decriminalize," but rather, legalize. He accurately recognizes many benefits of moving the distribution of in-demand drugs to a legal and regulated market.
It was a tale of two games, two basement-dwelling teams and two very different victories as the first-place Drexel men's basketball team headed into a pair of games against Towson and James Madison. The Dragons expected to make easy work of their lower-ranking counterparts, who rank 10th and ninth, respectively, in the CAA.
If you have a Drexel voice mail box (resident, student org. office, faculty, administrator), you probably received a message from University President Constantine Papadakis last week. In case you didn't, it was Taki congratulating the men's basketball team and welcoming everyone to support them.
There are a lot of potential bad ideas sitting in the depths of the human subconscious, waiting to bubble up to the surface of the real world when the right combination of stupidity, carelessness, and authority aligns - thusly causing chaos and anger. In the case of Senior Vice President for Student Life and Administrative Services Anthony Caneris' bad idea to disallow future first-year Drexel students from keeping overnight guests in their dorms, it will simply keep Drexel from having a freshman class next year.
You may not believe this, but I'm writing this from the back of a speeding van. I'm fleeing the city. I hope I'll be able to smuggle this article back to The Triangle before I disappear for good, but I have to face the facts that people may never read this.
Do you know where your president is? If you're at Drexel, the answer may be Cuba. Cuba? Yes, while the rest of us were wintering in sunny Philadelphia, University President Constantine Papadakis arranged a little getaway to the Caribbean. The occasion being the inauguration of a Greek Orthodox church on Castro's godless isle, where the president, we were told, would hobnob with (among others) his fellow royal Constantine II, the deposed King of the Hellenes.
I hate cell phones. Actually, that's not true. I love my cell phone. I easily rank it above both sliced bread and the discovery of fire as man's greatest innovation. If stranded on a deserted island, I'd take my cell phone before I would pack clothes or a sandwich.
Many people watch MTV on a daily basis. Total Request Live is perhaps one of the most heavily watched afterschool programs by people our age and younger. I can count on one hand the number of times that my sisters have come home from school and not watched TRL.
When the Founding Fathers wrote our Constitution, they included provisions to maintain the separation of church and state. They wanted to prevent the nomination or favoring of any one religion over any other by the government and also to protect the rights of those who chose not to have any religion at all.
Sean Crouse's sermon last week ("Christian morals should become gov't policy," The Triangle, Feb. 13, p. 14) illustrates a disturbing trend among fundamentalist Christians, a small but vocal minority of the nation's religious. Crouse seems to believe that his own spiritual convictions should decide the force of law in this country.
Let's get one thing straight: I'm not like my colleague Aaron Sakulich (thank God). I don't wake up every morning angry. I wouldn't like to think of myself as an angry person, but there are times when I do become incensed. This usually happens later on in the day after I've taken a midterm that makes me question my own intelligence or after I've been shot down yet again by a member of the opposite sex.
