Drexel's choice of speakers for commencement is lacking this year. Students pay a good amount of money to attend Drexel for four or five years, and at the very least should be entitled to have a good commencement speaker. Seeing that Drexel's graduation is later in the year than most other universities because of the quarter system, it's not as if there is any competition in trying to get a prominent speaker.
Since I wrote my last commentary ("Iraq policy needs overhaul now more than ever," The Triangle, May 7, p. 15), many more shocking photographs have come out in Iraq. The situation is now far graver than I could have ever imagined it.
Universal health care is one of the worst ideas of all time. Universal health care is a system by which tax money is used to give health care for everyone who doesn't have it via a job or some other means. To put it in more realistic terms, it means that hardworking people who pay taxes are required to pay for a huge number of irresponsible people, a huge number of vain or hypochondriac people and a small handful of people who genuinely need help.
Superheroes have been around for decades and have gradually become icons of diverse cultures throughout the world. They take you through incredible journeys into magical worlds of good and evil, dispatching a thousand monsters along the way, and emerge unscathed in all their glory.
Shortly after the Abu Ghraib controversy broke wide open, President Bush held a joint press conference with Jordan's King Abdullah. The President recounted his apology to the king for the Abu Ghraib abuses saying, "I told him I was sorry for the humiliation suffered by the Iraqi prisoners and the humiliation suffered by their families.
