Spring Break
Technology is all about enhancing the distribution of information. It makes information more available and more accessible for everyone, including students. Technology is embraced in the classroom and has a major impact on the learning experience, especially at Drexel.
If you're a football fan, chances are you wanted to watch the Packers-Cowboys game on Thursday night. However, if you're like most Americans, you weren't able to watch it. No, there wasn't a rainout, and there wasn't a massive power outage in Dallas. The problem is that the game was televised on the NFL Network, the National Football League's new in-house premium sports channel.
One question have I long pondered. One question remains at the root of all political discourse and controversy. One question must be answered before all others. Yet we rarely stop to consider its ramifications. We, as citizens, rarely stop to consider our lives in the light shed by this issue which has reverberated in court cases throughout history, sometimes softly, sometimes with deafening intensity.
Guantánamo Bay. A rather beautiful bay located in the Guantánamo Province, which is near the Southeastern end of Cuba that the United States assumed control over after 1903. The area is also home to a U.S. naval base, called the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base, in the Southern area of the bay.
The signs are still up on campus, but the circus has left town. Ever wonder why Harvard, Princeton and Yale never host presidential primary debates? Maybe the Ivy League just has a better sense of smell. No, I didn't go. Like most of us at Drexel, I slipped my way between the sound trucks and the high-on-hype supporters of this face or that, and got to my classes.
Where is the respect? Where is it? Where is the respect for others, the respect for other people's property, and the respect for ourselves? Where has it gone? The crime in Philadelphia currently stands in direct correlation to the lack of respect we have for one another.
