Spring Break
Textbook prices are on the rise, and for a University that sells itself as a pioneer in technology, we're paradoxically behind the times. As more students across the country utilize competitive prices and the Internet to purchase course textbooks, especially used textbooks, Drexel locks us into a last-minute bind.
For those of you that don't read this column, which is everyone, this will be my final column for The Triangle. Ever. I tried hard to transfer into a better school and failed miserably, managing to only get into George Mason University, which is about three or four miles from my house.
It is the end of term. Students will be asked to fill out course evaluations. At least at the college of engineering the results will be on the Web pages for the world to see. These public ratings will guide students on future course selections. Indeed, faculty promotion, renewal and tenure will be based on these here and elsewhere.
I've made some bad choices in my life. I once drank a quart of butter on a dare. I wrote an article about scientology wherein I called them a bunch of names, not knowing that scientologists regularly shoot people for such things. Even now, as I'm writing this, I'm eating sesame-covered anchovies in hot sauce, which I bought at the Chinese supermarket in Chinatown.
I've served as ed-op editor for nearly two years now and I greatly enjoyed being at the forefront of college debate. However, all good things must come to an end. Having accepted a fellowship with the College of Arts and Sciences to help Professor Dilworth write a textbook on Pennsylvania government, I'm excited to help expand this area of knowledge when civics and localism are in decline in America.
Remember at the end of Batman Begins (probably not) when Police Commissioner Jim Gordon asks Batman about escalation? "We get semi-automatic weapons, they get automatics. We get Kevlar body armor, they get armor-piercing rounds. And you're wearing a mask and jumping off rooftops!" While the movie is about the caped crusader, a pioneer for the good and defenseless, escalation is very relevant in today's global political scene.
After a brief, demented show of defiance, Drexel University's administration recovered its collective mind and decided not to contest New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's suit against the cozy relationships between universities and student loansharkers, many of them charging double the market rate while paying cash under the table for preferential (i.
