Campus Chronicle

Last week marked the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina ravaging the Gulf Coast, leaving her mark especially on the city of New Orleans. Levees that separated the city were destroyed and the city flooded, with 1,700 people lost to the storm. Now, fewer than half of the city's 460,000 residents have returned, and those who have returned face a lengthy trial of government ineptitude and delayed action by governing bodies.

It is time for Campus Recreation to acknowledge that the aquatic facility in the new Student Recreation Facility is an abysmal failure. That's obvious to all who visit it and work in it. The lap pool gets by far the most use, but it's disastrously designed and dangerously overcrowded.

This past summer, the Lebanese-based terrorist group Hizballah was victorious in its war against Israel. When I say "victorious," I mean that the governments of Syria and Iran simply repeated over and over that Hizballah had won, and the Western press inevitably took their cues like obedient canaries.