Spring Break
Every year, a few weeks before most colleges begin the academic year, we have to deal with bad news. No, it's not the fact that our friends are heading off to school a whole month before us. It's the results of the U.S. News and Princeton Review annual college rankings.
The August 10 editorial by The Triangle Editorial Board raises important and thoughtful questions about the sorry state of customer service at Drexel University. Unfortunately the points raised are overshadowed by the inflammatory and counter productive calls for President Papadakis's resignation.
Dear Andy, I've got a boyfriend that I really like, but he lives far away. The other day, he came to visit and ended up not getting along with any of my guy friends. Who should I choose - my friends or my boyfriend? -Chen Chen, life is short. Who says you can't have more than one partner at a time? The law? Pshh.
How do you interact with people on the Internet? Sure, there's the old staples like E-mail and IM, but now people have blogs and are members of several different social networking sites. Why do people have to sign up for so many different sites? Isn't one enough? The simple answer is no.
Last June, I went to two games in the San Francisco Giants series. Barry Bonds, then still in quest of Hank Aaron's home run record, started both of them in left field. Even for Philadelphia, the booing set some kind of decibel record. It rolled like thunder down a hill from every quadrant, all of it aimed at the bejeweled and rather delicate ears of Mr.
Correct me if I'm wrong here, but aren't allies supposed to help each other out? This country seems to have picked up a few "allies" who are rather confused: Russia and France. It seems like they're rather unclear on the whole idea of not shooting your friends in the foot - almost literally - because they have the nasty habit of publicly selling guns, ammunition, and weapons to countries who consider the United States to be their primary enemy - countries like Venezuela, Iran and Syria.
On Feb. 2 of this year, 600 scientists from governments, academia, green groups and businesses in 40 countries concluded, "warming of the climate system is unequivocal." The report also found that there was a 90 percent likelihood that our way of life is the cause of the global climate change.
England is an exotic land of mystery. The English eat parts of animals I'd never consider putting in my mouth. Some of their groceries are named specifically after genitalia and their secret agents are continually impregnating the women of the world. Americans prefer broken beer bottles at the bar; they prefer top hats and pistols at dawn.
Noah Cohen, a member of the editorial board, did not contribute to the August 10 issue's editorial, "Papadakis' Golden Idea." His feelings about the editorial's topic can be found in his commentary, "Papadakis' business branding benefits U.," found in this issue.
