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This past week, fliers were posted around campus claiming that police would be at the polls Nov. 4 reviewing voters' records for outstanding violations and arresting offenders on the spot. This information was deemed "blatantly false" by the administration, and although these fliers have been removed from campus, it is still imperative that we step up to the plate and show everyone that students are truly ready to speak their minds and will not be intimidated by such shameful tactics.
Talk about bad timing: Just as the financial universe was about to collapse, Drexel decided to offer its graduating classes the wit and wisdom of Carl Icahn and Michael Milken, the two notoriously aggressive Wall Street businessmen immortalized in Connie Bruck's muckraking classic, "The Predators' Ball.
The Federal Reserve announced Sept. 16 the bailout of insurance giant AIG. The rescue - in the form of a loan - is an act unprecedented in the history of the Federal Reserve. The government now, in effect, possesses a controlling interest in a gigantic private organization.
In his Aug. 22 commentary entitled "MOVE Still Looking for Philadelphia Justice" Robert Zaller misrepresents two events in Philadelphia's criminal history. Zaller's first distortion was that the 1978 MOVE confrontation was a swift, hot-headed storming of the radical group's home by the police.
