In the midst of registration, the student body can be heard grumbling about everything from what classes they couldn't get into to what teachers wouldn't overload them. Underlying many complaints about registration, however, is the issue of what day students get to register on.
It's been two weeks since the zombie horde overran Geneseo, sending a small human resistance to a moldering grave on Letchworth field. Two weeks since the heroic last stand of a token few who'd survived the week, since the heroes and captains of the human resistance fell.
On Saturday, the House of Representatives passed the Affordable Health Care for America Act with a vote of 220 to 215. This calls for supporters of the Democrats' plan for health care reform to celebrate, but not to rest. This was the easy part; the road ahead will be tumultuous.
Call your congressperson! The SUNY budget is being cut! The four horsemen are galloping to the Geneseo campus, sickles in hand. If the budget cuts go through, students will be systematically "killed" because they can no longer be supported monetarily. Grab your torches and pitchforks; let's get Gov.
From "Reform health care, already," by Jesse Goldberg: "So much of this 'reform' could take place without huge blaoted [sic] bills. The real intent of this healthcare reform is to take control over peoples [sic] lives. If this passes, everything from what we eat to where we go will be 'related' to health care and regulated.
Twenty years ago to the week, residents of Soviet-dominated East Berlin were allowed free entry into Allied-occupied West Berlin, as the Wall that was synonymous with the Iron Curtain began to be chipped away, piece by piece. German reunification would begin that night and last well into 1990.
A sharp object is forced through your epidermis and punctures your vein. And after the vein is pierced, a vacuum sucks your blood from its flow into a thick plastic bag. Hypodermic needles, vacutainers, iodine swabs, latex: it all sounds so clinical. And terrifying.
