The Turnpike Series, The Pinstripe Series, cheesesteak vs. cheesecake, Broad Street vs. Broadway; whatever you want to call it it's the World Series! So what does a Yankees vs. Phillies Series mean for Muhlenberg? An exciting two weeks probably doesn't even begin to explain it.
I may or may not be the first, but I am certainly far from last to get swine flu at the College. On Thursday night the doctors at St. Luke's hospital told me I had swine flu, and I've been making the best I can of it. I've been enjoying tracking how fast the virus could potentially be spreading, for example (this is all true): I was hanging out with person A who gave a hug to person B, person B hooked up with person C later that night, and person C is on the soccer team and shares a locker room with persons D, E, F, G, and H.
Muhlenberg encourages students to study abroad junior year, and we have many options. Exotic, discipline-specific programs like Maastrict and Goldsmiths may sway students with the opportunity to travel and speak foreign languages. And the Office of Global Education boasts about exposure to diverse traditions and perspectives through international programs.
Can you believe another election is right around the corner? It seems like yesterday when crowds flocked to the polls for election day 2008. On Nov. 3, '09 there will be a series of local elections happening right here in Allentown and all across Lehigh County.
At the very start of his time in office, President Obama made a wise decision to shut down the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, our most prominent, but by no means our only, overseas prison. Of course, this decision begged the question of what we should do with the people we hold there.
Our society has developed a major and debilitating habit: we have embraced the "quick fix" as a viable solution to our problems. No longer do we seek to solve the causes of problems, rather we simply seek to eliminate the symptoms of those problems. The top selling drug in the country, Lipitor, is a medicine used to lower a person's blood cholesterol.
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