Spring Break
Laughter, smiles and sometimes a few tears generally fill the celebratory hours of graduation day. Today, that upbeat air should continue when the keynote speaker delivers his address to family and close friends, as well as the students themselves, the graduating class of 2004.
Oh fair overgraduates, your long journey through the annals of this fine educational institution may finally come to a long-awaited end. When most students accept four years as an appropriate length of stay, one should take at a university, you have stood up to that principle and said "No! I shall take five, six or even seven years to complete my education.
So there's this drug adderall, right? Oh man, some of my friends do it and let me tell you: that stuff works. I don't mean improves concentration like ginseng 'improves concentration.' I mean it takes one's head and slams it against one's desk until half a semester's work lies in a neat pile completed.
The political picture is looking bleak, not only nationally but in our state government as well. Everyday we hear a new story about Gov. John G. Rowland and his serial gift taking. There is mounting evidence he has been engaging in unethical behavior, yet he continues to flash his arrogance in our faces by refusing to resign.