SDSU to create new DI sports alliance?
SDSU and NDSU are in the early stages of discussing the formation of a new Division I-AA football conference. Interested schools could start talking as early as the end of this month, said Gene Taylor, NDSU athletic director. The schools would want to start playing at the start of the 2004-05 season.
Operation Shoebox gathering supplies for U.S. troops
A campus group is spearheading a branch of the national campaign, Operation Shoebox, to gather supplies for U.S. troops. Deb DeBates advises the American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences (AAFC). “This is a way to show support that is not difficult,” DeBates said.
Miller preps SDSU with war-related precautions
Response procedures are in place should a campus emergency occurs, President Peggy Miller told campus staff in an e-mail after the war broke last month. The e-mail included hyperlinks to a 34-page SDSU Emergency Operating Plan, which gives specific instructions on how to handle emergency or disaster situations, and to the SDSU Respirator Safety Program.
“They said it!”
“My opinion is that if this is real and if this is a clearer examination of what mankind’s place is in the universe, then this is something that cannot be swept under the rug forever.” Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) researcher Robert Hastings on the veracity of UFO reports.
Nathan desires a rock star’s life
At some point in everyone’s life, a dream to be a rock star springs up. For me, it’s been in the last two years. As graduation day looms in my very near future, I am trying as hard as possible to avoid getting a real job. I would rather be a professional athlete, an actor, a supermodel or a rock singer long before having to sit in a cubicle and grind my life away like the software engineers on “Office Space.
We should not be warring with God
Peace rallies are in the news. With the outbreak of war in Iraq, people around the world are rallying for peace. Some do so in the name of Jesus. Indeed much has been written from a religious perspective about the rightness and wrongness of the current war and the hope for peace.
Knowledge of one’s own culture can cause us pain and hurt, but it helps our self-awareness
The pursuit of knowledge is what drove me to college. However, lately I have run into an interesting phenomena. Never before in my life would I have said that ignorance is bliss. Anybody that knows me has heard me repeat “Ignorance is not an excuse” and “Ignorance is often a source of great evil.
Young Mr. Steckelberg eats a lot of apples, drinks a beer
I need to go on a diet. I am what your sensitive mother may call husky, while drunken aunt Joan calls me a chubby f@#*. I don’t know if I am morbidly obese, I don’t even know if I’m slightly amusing with a serious streak obese. I do know that like many Americans, I can’t stop stuffing my swelling cheeks.
New Patriot Act might be too large of an expansion
Patriot Act II worries me. A conservative Republican like me would be expected to support the Bush Administration’s attempts to expand federal authority to quell terrorism. However, as a conservative, I am philosophically in favor of a small federal government with limited powers that allows its people to live relatively free of government interference.
The proposed Patriot Act II will destroy our liberty
Washington D.C. has produced a frightening sequel in the post-Sept.-11 frenzy. “Patriot Act II: The Final Reckoning.” The “Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003″ promises longer wire taps, fewer warrants, and the immediate expulsion of those pesky “terrorists.
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