With nightly seminars on cover letters and midday meetings for co-op abroad, we see the Steinbright Career Development Center doing everything it can to encourage and support the students who cannot find jobs during this recession. The student body faces an unprecedented situation - competition is exceptionally fierce, many jobs are unpaid and time is running out.
I love music. I am totally obsessed with music. Ever since I saved up my pocket change in third grade to buy my first CD player, I have been spewing oodles of money into the forlorn music industry. I started going to my local record store every day in sixth grade.
We have been hearing about Iran's nuclear program for several years, and while efforts have been made by the international community, including several UN resolutions as well as sanctions, this has neither stopped nor slowed down the Iranian nuclear program.
I was reading The Wall Street Journal recently and I came across an article that really bothered me - a woman from the Philippines, who originally claimed she had been raped by a U.S. marine, has rescinded her rape accusation. As reported by The Wall Street Journal, "It wasn't clear why the woman identified as Nicole in court papers, recanted her testimony in a sworn in statement.
It is a popular joke between my friends that college students don't actually sleep. They just take naps and extended nighttime naps. In college, sleep just seems to be this mythical thing of which no college students can really grasp a steady eight hours.
In our land of free speech, you can lose your job for criticizing the boss or simply speaking your mind on a public issue. That's how it is when the free market (free for the boss) trumps everything else. One of the few bastions of unfettered speech in America is the university, where a privileged minority, the tenured faculty, is at least notionally free to exercise its First Amendment rights without fear of termination.
Dear Editor, Regarding last week's issue, Joshua Kurtz' article, "Police use networking sites," discussed the idea of Drexel Police monitoring the Facebook pages of students. If this does happen, then who is stopping them from searching the Facebook pages without probable cause? If a profile page is open to the public and not set on private, nothing is keeping anyone from looking at personal information.
