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There has been a buzz around campus lately - and it's not because of sports or an important administrative decision. It's because the Democrats are coming. Drexel is in the process of transforming into a political oasis. It certainly is a great honor for the University to be hosting the Oct.
In the interview I gave a representative from Haverford University last year (during that awful three month period of trial and error that is called college interviews), I lied and told him I learned logic, reason, rhetoric, penmanship, creativity, culture, skill in writing, persuasion, vocabulary, mathematics, and cold hard facts from my stint in high school.
In recent weeks I've seen ignorance about homelessness surfacing among students of this University. It seems that many Drexel students believe the homeless to be drug addicts or lazy opportunists looking for some easy money. Although this probably defines some people on the streets, it does not accurately characterize the majority of the homeless.
Racism is more real than we think. It has just taken up more subtle and hidden ways, and unlike the stereotype that goes, it's not always the white person being the racist. It's just that people pay more attention if racism is by one sect against another. The incident comes more to light and, suddenly, everyone is talking about it.
Last week my colleague, Jamie Thomson, wrote a semi-impassioned article bringing Drexel scholars up to date on the SCHIP program and the plight of America's uninsured children. She ended the article with an insightful comment, "That any child (or any person, for that matter) should go without healthcare in this country is appalling.
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The Nov. 6 mayoral election has already been decided, much like the dozen or so mayoral elections before it. As any aware Philadelphian can tell you, the actual, meaningful election had taken place five months previous, when the Democratic Primary named Michael Nutter as its candidate for the race in our overwhelmingly Democratic town.
