On Wednesday, Student Association President and senior Haleema Murtaza made the difficult decision to vote down funding for the spring concert. The Lamron supports Murtaza in her choice and encourages continued financial responsibility on the part of the SA executive board.
Verizon has a new phone called the Droid, which they tout as being this impressive machine capable of many impressive feats of technological wonder. Commercials even say that with the Droid, you can "reach the deepest depths of the oceans without getting so much as a grain of sand in your shorts.
Spirit, one of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's rovers tasked with exploring Mars, is about to die and its life is worth celebrating. Originally designed and programmed to roam the Martian surface for a mere 90 days, the craft has lived over six years on the hostile terrain of our red neighbor.
Sunday morning, I left Geneseo at 9:30 a.m. bound for the Rochester airport. My good friend Chris was up at that ungodly hour and very graciously drove me. I arrived at Manhattan College in the Bronx at 2:30 p.m. Chris was the last person I talked to. When I got to the airport, I used the little automated terminal to check myself in and have my boarding pass spit at me.
As far as charitable organizations go, Habitat for Humanity is one of the best. The Livingston County chapter has existed for over 20 years and has provided at least 12 local families with safe, low-cost homes. Since 1976, Habitat for Humanity International has built over 350,000 houses for people who need them most with help from hundreds of thousands of dedicated volunteers.
Last Wednesday, President Barack Obama delivered his State of the Union address and, like most State of the Union addresses, this one was a self-congratulatory speech lauding the successes of the current administration and reciting a list of token American values.
