Spring Break
It was recently announced that all of President Papadakis' town hall meetings - the students' best way to communicate with the administration - have been postponed until spring term. Adding these four meetings to the three meetings that were canceled at the end of fall term due to Taki's run-in with an elephant in Nepal (see "Papadakis cancels town hall meetings," The Triangle, Jan.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. has once again passed us Jan. 15, and the national holiday in honor of him is Jan. 21, the third Monday of the month. His impact on our society is incalculable, and to try and measure his influence would be to undervalue his message.
It was a Wednesday afternoon and I was sprawled in between two different uncomfortable chairs flipping channels until I stopped on Vh1 to watch America's Most Smartest Model. Two intellectually crippled male models ran on a treadmill for five minutes straight as I watched for five minutes straight.
It is a sad day in United States history when some politician thinks that we can solve illegal immigration with a fence. Fences will not solve the problem. It might, however, cut through American towns, as the most recent plans for a border fence in Texas, along the Rio Grande would.
"The worst kind of slimeball": On the Road with Ed Rendell. No, I didn't make up that phrase. It comes from Tom Ferrick, who used it in a recent Sunday Philadelphia Inquirer column to describe the machinations of Gov. Ed Rendell over the planned expansion of the Convention Center, which involves the demolition of two historic buildings on Broad Street protected by an agreement reached in 2004 between the Convention Center Authority and the Pennsylvania Historic and Museum Commission.
