You may have sensed it walking through the halls in MacAllister or the grass by Kelly. You may have been sitting in class with your laptop open or in your dorm with the blankets over your head. A tangible sorrow pervaded campus as the news set in over the past week - President Papadakis is really gone, and Drexel is forever altered.
Computers allow data to be stored, copied and shared without much thought or effort from the end user's part. While most digital data (a phone number, a transcript of the SEC's mission statement, or even this article) has minimal value, some of it is highly valued and even copyrighted.
From the G20 summit held last week in London, we heard of the success and progress fostered by the nations and how their innovative ideas for the global free-market economic system would benefit mankind. For decades, world leaders have peddled the neoliberal notion that less government regulation and non-intervention in the marketplace will result in: more profit, less debt and increased prosperity throughout the world.
In our world, fiction and science are rubbing elbows more and more often. One of these friction points is the issue of stem cell research, more specifically, the issue of gathering stem cells from the embryo of an aborted child. This discussion has drawn heated debate from both sides politically, led to new and very specific religious policies, and has shown a new frontier to scientists with a veritable Pandora's Box of biological manipulation.
One of my favorite scenes from Pixar's "Wall-E" is when Wall-E accidentally bumps into a woman, turning off all of her electronic devices. Seeing what is three feet in front of her for the first time in her life, the woman looks out at a broad window and marvels at the stars cape outside of the spaceship.
Art can be simply described as the creation and appreciation of the aesthetic in certain objects. For thousands of years the boundaries of what art is and how it influences our society has been in constant question. Just like people and the society that they develop, art is in unceasing evolution.
Response: Bearing Arms vs. Causing Harm Our Declaration of Independence suggests the inalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Most people in fact don't want to take away your life, your liberty, or your happiness, least of all the government, as much as it may seem that way.
Dear Editor, David Youseff's article "Bearing Arms is Constitutional" in the April 3 issue was a great indicator of the need for protecting our rights according to the Constitution - especially the right to bear arms. In today's society, when someone mentions guns, the first thing that comes to mind is violence, instead of safety and protection.
