Spring Break
Dec. 16, 2008 at 10 a.m. all Drexel students received an e-mail (which they may or may not have read) informing them that, "in order to satisfy Pennsylvania Department of Education requirements for the number of class hours per quarter credit hour, and to maintain the current schedule of holidays … the final exam schedule … has been expanded.
It's been bruited lately that the planned casinos in downtown Philadelphia, having been chased from waterfront to local neighborhood to shopping mall, won't be built after all. As we all know, gamblers, like other addicts, will spend their last nickel on their passion.
Three weeks ago I said to my wife, we really have three wonderful children. How are we so lucky? Each of them is a better person than I. All three of them are Eucharist ministers. All of them attend Sunday mass. Elizabeth graduated summa cum laude from Immaculata University.
Everyone is entitled to his or her own opinion. Disagreements happen. Debate and uproar are always bound to occur. However some people - people who wield a considerable amount of influence - sometimes say with the strongest conviction things that do not make any sense to me at all.
The weekend of Jan. 23-25 marked the return of Drexel University Homecoming. At a school with a historically apathetic student body, we should all feel pride that this Homecoming was a success, and largely for students, by students. The Drexel Traditions Program's executive council began planning the revival of Homecoming in spring 2008, with the help of major campus groups, administration and alumni.
here are a lot of "experts" in our society. We've all seen political experts that insisted an inexperienced guy named Barack couldn't win an election. There were financial experts who thought Enron was a "can't miss." And who can forget the pop culture experts who said Brad and Jen were meant to be? There were also those slick college basketball experts who predicted your Drexel Dragons men's basketball team to finish last this season.
As president of Drexel's chapter of One in Four, a national organization dedicated to reducing sexual assault and rape on college campuses, I am writing in response to the Jan. 30 article, "Student alleges sexual assault on campus." It is important that we promote a campus where survivors of sexual assault and rape are listened to.
