SIX THOUSAND dollars: Roughly, this is the amount of money the four predominantly African-American fraternities at the University spend per semester for rental and security of IFC fraternity houses during social events and functions.
I LIKE numbers. I always have, and probably always will. During car trips as a kid instead of listening to the latest New Kids on the Block or MC Hammer tape I'd glance out the window and keep track of the mile markers as they whizzed by and then look at the speedometer to try and figure out how long until we arrived at our destination.
ALMOST 30 years ago, school children across Boston began boarding buses to travel to schools outside their neighborhoods following U.S.
WHEN I walk around the Corner these days, I sense a change in the commercial landscape. What once was a local, eclectic, unique area of local merchants is slowly transforming to a commercial franchise-driven powerhouse.
I AM an English major. I love it and wouldn't want to be in any other field, and I know that because of all the books I've been forced to read, I'll be much more entertaining at cocktail parties than, say, an engineer.
THROUGH widespread vaccination, we officially eradicated smallpox more than twenty years ago. Alas, we cannot inoculate minds as we inoculate bodies.
ON PAPER, Gen. Wesley Clark should be leading the Democratic pack. His resume is impeccable: Decorated veteran, Rhodes Scholar, NATO Supreme Commander.
IF THE road to hell is paved with good intentions, then President Bush must have a cushy job as a road paver awaiting him.
EARLY next winter, Newcomb Hall's informal lounge will be transformed from a drab, empty space into a bustling diversity center where students of all cultural backgrounds can mingle in a mutually inclusive environment.
PEOPLE always question why black students have Peer Advisors. Why are there separate organizations and events for minorities despite our pursuit for a race-neutral society?
THAT SCREAM you just heard was Rev. Jerry Falwell reading last week's Massachusetts Supreme Court decision.
FOR THOUSANDS of years, marriage between a woman and a man has been a bedrock of civilization with cultural, legal, religious and historical underpinnings that provide the foundation for society's most basic social unit: the family.
IN NATIONAL politics, it is customary for the press to evaluate the president after his first 100 days in office to see where he has been effective and ineffective, and where challenges still remain. This week will see Student Council President Daisy Lundy's 100th day in office since the beginning of the fall term, and I see no reason not to bring this tradition to the University.
FOLLOWING on the heels of an impressive fall tabloid-size supplement on the football team, the Sports section last week treated readers to an equally noteworthy enhancement to daily coverage.
ON NOV. 12, Sarah Lawrence College joined what the New York Times calls a "growing list of schools" in abandoning its reliance upon SAT scores for freshmen admissions.
WHEN THINKING about the planned diversity center to be located on the third floor of Newcomb Hall, one of the first things to come to mind is Derek Zoolander's "center for kids who can't read good and want to do other things good too." While the planned center will obviously not have Ben Stiller teaching children to read, it will equal the fictitious Zoolander center in general uselessness. This plan is indicative of the growing perceived need for general political correctness within our society.
RIVALRIES between schools are curious things. They can be based on regional schisms (the University of Georgia and Florida, for example)or on the close proximity of two highly visible schools, like Stanford and Berkeley.
IT'S COURSE registration time, which for most students is a big deal. And for the others, it should be.
Well, apparently we're all going to Hell in a handbasket. A rainbow-colored handbasket. This week, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that same-sex couples had a legal right to marry and effectively ended the state's ban on same-sex marriage.
Does anybody know when the Majority Career Fair will take place? Who will be my white peer advisor?
