Spring Break
While the phrase "Number one in technology," has been more of a running joke for Drexel than a badge of honor, we have finally begun to see some real, appreciable progress. The Drexel Information Network initiative, started by the USGA and funded by the University, is a great way for communication to remain open around the University.
This Independence Day, Drexel students went out to the barbeques, watched the West Wing marathon on Bravo, or saw the plethora of fireworks displays in the Delaware Valley. Deep down inside, however, we all remembered why we actually celebrate Independence Day.
The American playwright Lillian Hellman titled her memoir of the McCarthy years Scoundrel Time. A memoir of this period in American history might well be called Gestapo Time. It is now more than a year since the revelations of torture and homicide against prisoners at Abu Ghraib, the showpiece of our efforts to "democratize" Iraq, shocked and outraged the world.
If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners in their control, you would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their Gulags, or some mad regime--Pol Pot or others--that had no concern for human beings.
Mrs. Burlingame is the sister of Capt. Charles Burlingame III, pilot of American Airlines flight 77, which crashed into the Pentagon on the September 11 terrorist attacks. She's also pretty angry. Why? It seems the World Trade Center site, the most hollowed ground in contemporary America, is suffering a second attack; a second betrayal.
While one would not know this from media and social science neglect of the subject, about half of all abortion-seeking women have asked a man to accompany them to the clinic or doctors' waiting room. This means that about 600,000 men (almost all of them the male sex partners in an ill-timed and unwanted pregnancy) sit for over an hour waiting to help the patient return home after the procedure.
While I feel that cultural diversity is essential to education so that children grow to sophisticated adults, having African/African American History as a requirement is absurd. I am not dismissing that subject as a particular discipline as I feel that it holds a significant amount of importance among scholars, however this would serve better as an elective course.
On behalf of everyone associated with the Teach-In On the War in Iraq we presented last Winter, I thank William Mulgrew for reminding his readers that the lives of the people of Iraq matter just as much as the lives of our own families and loved ones, ("Movie in response to Iraq teach-in," The Triangle, June 3, p.
In the past couple of months there has been an economic event that has influenced all Americans, that is the rising prices of oil that Americans have to pay when they buy gas for their car. It is important to understand the reasons for why this is so and what is expected in regards to this in the future.
