This should sound familiar. Students sitting on the floor or in the aisles in a class they need to graduate, 34 chairs squeezed into a room that the fire code says can only fit 25 people, other students pleading with professors to sign a drop/add form so they can get into a class that they actually care about.

In every department from optical sciences to political science, students understand that there never seem to be enough seats to go around, and if they can get into the classes they need they'll be one of a lucky few crammed into a classroom never designed to hold that many people. [Read article]

These are heady days for the Democratic Party. With Democrats holding steadfast, John Bolton - now the U.S. permanent representative to the United Nations - was unable to receive confirmation from the Senate, only earning his sinecure through a shaky recess appointment by President Bush.

Paul Hackett, the Democratic candidate for an Ohio congressional district and a veteran of the war in Iraq, returning from combat less than a year ago, was able to garner 48 percent of the vote in a heavily Republican district without a platform to speak of. [Read article]

"I want to spread the word of what it's like to be close to God. Whenever I'm down, I turn to him."

-Robert Truman, undeclared freshman

"I like my English classes because there's lots of communication. No, I'm not ESL!"

-Emily Park, biochemistry freshman

"I like a girl that pops her collar."

- Josh Alhadeff, regional development junior [Read article]

Bernsen assertion misleading, inappropriate

I am writing in response to yesterday's article "GPSC wants in on pres. search." In the caption paired with the accompanying picture, and according to Cade Bernsen, the GPSC is a "club."

As the president of the GPSC I find this assertion ridiculous considering that the GPSC was once a part of ASUA and was formally and permanently given a portion of ASUA's budget in 1997 in order to serve as the graduate- and professional student-specific branch of student government because ASUA had been doing such a poor job of it. [Read article]