Cartoon: Housing
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Student input missing againRumors fly due to lack of information on chapel
Construction has become a regular part of life for a college student at St. John Fisher College. It has forced students to be flexible about parking and class assignments. It has limited use of our campus by taking away LeChase Commons for months at a time and moving respected tenured professors to cubicles in the upper level of the library.…
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Customers should show some respect
You know one of the things that is wrong with the world right now? Everyone is so caught up in their own lives and the next thing they need to do that they don't really think twice about cleaning up after themselves before running off.
This type of attitude occurs everywhere.…
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Occasional venting proves beneficial
There are a number of things I could write about that would inform or educate people, but I think I'll just take this time to let people know about some things that bother me. Some may be offended, but I haven't had a good venting session in a while, so here it goes.…
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Guest Essay: Relief effort shows signs of growth
On August 29th, 2005 Hurricane Katrina crashed ashore near the Louisiana/Mississippi border as a category 3 storm with sustained winds of 125mph. 1,836 people perished as a result of the tropical cyclone with the vast majority residing in Louisiana and hundreds of thousands of others were left with broken homes, hearts and dreams.…
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Life doesn't always follow traditional plan
As a high school student, I thought that at as a senior in college, I would have everything figured out.
I would graduate Cum Laude, know exactly where I wanted to live and might even be engaged.
I am a year from walking across the stage at Blue Cross Arena, and if I shook a magic eight ball I can bet it would point to 'outlook not so good' or 'cannot predict now.…
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Make other papers more available to students
From before I can even remember, I've read the newspaper. As long as I can find one, I read the newspaper daily.
It's become a part of my normal routine up to the point where if I take the rare nap at home and wake up in the evening, I half expect to go to the kitchen and find the morning newspaper sitting on the table.…
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Courier Counterpoints: Grad school buys time
You wake up one morning, and you're getting shuffled onto the school bus with your Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles lunchbox and a plastic backpack. Years pass by faster than you would have ever expected, and you wake up one morning to grab the keys to the car, and you shuffle off with a German textbook and Russell Banks' The Sweet Hereafter.…
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Courier Counterpoints: Eager to begin career
What are your plans for after graduation? It's a question that I get asked numerous times a day. Myself, like most other seniors really have no clue about what is to happen after we leave St. John Fisher College.
There has always been the toss up of going to graduate school or getting a job.…
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Guest Essay: New Orleans residents inspire volunteer with hopes for future
This was my third trip to New Orleans to assist in rebuilding the city that suffered so much from Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The stories we heard, the personal interaction with extraordinary people and knowing that our work was needed and capably performed were the highlights of a wonderful week.…
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Cartoon: Skip & Cal
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