Spring Break
What is the most dreadful time of the term for students? Midterms are difficult to handle, especially when they occur several times a term. Finals week is also stressful because students have to spend days studying for all the material that they slept through earlier in the term. But believe it or not, most students find registration one of the most difficult times of the term.
If someone were rude to you, your typical natural reaction would be to punch them in the face. While we restrain ourselves because we live in a society of laws, there are rare occasions when those who cannot restrain themselves shock everyone around them like a downed power line at the local swimming pool.
It's offensive, arrogant and narrow-minded, the relativists say, to claim that any one religion is true. Others go further and equate such exclusivity as religious chauvinism or spiritual dictatorship. When stripped to the core, all religions are equally valid and true, the claim goes.
In high school, I attempted to formulate a theory mending evolution and creationism. I failed miserably. I researched evolution tirelessly, went to Bible study, and dredged through dribbling science journals and long-winded evangelist speeches. To be fair, however, I was not equipped with the tools to achieve this aim so soon.
I can't wait for baseball to start this season; there are so many storylines to follow. Which ginormous off-season contract will turn out to be a waste? Will Barry Bonds break Hammerin' Hank's home run record? Will Bud Selig use Pete Rose for publicity and still snub him for the Hall of Fame? While only time can tell the answers to some of these, I have a few predictions I think are as sure to happen as Albert Pujols' dominance.
Just to be sure we know what we are talking about, let me start by saying what tenure is, for the purposes of this column. Tenure is a contract of employment without any specific limit of term. Many faculty are hired on contracts that "run out" after one or three years, but for tenured faculty the contract doesn't run out, and the faculty member has a reasonable expectation that she or he many remain in the position until retirement.
Eamonn Rockwell succeeded at his stated task of offending at least one group ("Xenu vs. Rockwell: The phight for Philly," March 2): the members of the Church of Scientology here in Philadelphia who have personal experience of the practical tools provided by Mr.
You see them walking around campus. Often, they are equipped with an overwhelming load of drafting tools, rolls of trace, and every now and then larger-than-life presentation boards. They are interior design students. Some of you may even know some of these so-called "nesbians," yet the question remains: What exactly do they do? In this era of Home and Garden Television, in addition to the current trend in home improvement, people have adopted what they think to be interior design based on the common misconceptions shown on TV.
In "An eyewitness account of the Guantanamo Bay prison" (Jan. 26), Eric Zillmer praised Guantanamo Bay as "a modern security facility." He continued to say: "During my visit, I came to fully believe that the detainees kept at GTMO are being treated humanely and ethically.
The only thing worse than losing a war is not being able to surrender. That is our present position in Iraq. By all rational standards, we have been defeated in every one of our war aims, declared and undeclared: destroying Saddam's weapons of mass destruction (he had none), creating a model democracy in his wake that would serve as a model for the entire Middle East (we have sown chaos instead, and destabilized the region for the foreseeable future), creating a secure base of military operations (our giant fortresses in the desert will be someone else's bastion), and securing control of Iraq's oil wealth (we have crippled production, and taxed ourselves in doubled and tripled oil prices for the benefit of private corporations).
