To many, Philadelphia's mass transit services are provided by the Slow, Expensive, Pathetic Transit Authority, otherwise known as SEPTA. Most students have learned that SEPTA consistently fails. We've all waited for trains that never came, and dealt with dirty stations and cars.
Having recently returned from an Alternative Spring Break trip to New Orleans with 29 other Drexel students and staff, I feel particularly compelled to respond to Ken Kaighan's commentary in last week's The Triangle, "New Orleans: Helping those who help themselves.
As everyone now knows, Drexel University is now under threat of suit by the Attorney General of New York, Andrew Cuomo, for its part in an alleged kickback scheme involving student loans. According to the allegation, Drexel received 0.75% of more than $16 million in loans from a preferred provider, Education Finance Partners.
Like many other readers of The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Triangle, I have been puzzled and distressed by reports of the relationship between Drexel and a company making student loans, especially the recent revelation that the Attorney General of New York intends to sue Drexel on behalf of Drexel students from New York State.
I've come to a point in my life where I want to annihilate all the cities of Earth. Not even the music of appropriately-titled Rage Against the Machine can accurately express my rage. There may be angrier people on the planet right now, sitting in their rooms brooding about the reasons why mom, dad and teacher are douchebags and how they'd like to beat up varsity-quarterback Lance Greene for giving them a wedgie that very afternoon right in front of Coach Conroy, but the odds of that are slim.
