Re: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

I complete agree with the author of this blog. As we get older, things change. These changes can include your views, your physical appearance, or characteristics you use to make judgments such as what make things beautiful. I guess a way of highlighting this would be look back at one aspect of your life and see how you have changed. I'm 19 years old but I can look back and see how my tastes and opinions have changed throughout the years. One specific example is the type of music I listen to. As the years have gone by I have transitioned from like one genre to another. A reason for this transition is what appeals to you about the music. For this example I equated what you like about the music with beauty. Original post at http://joshbusinessblog.blogspot.com/

IC Work Order

Recently students myself included have been basing on Ithaca College for the cost of tuition, and other factors of campus life such as parking accommodation's. However, this week the college managed to impress me. Since the first day when I moved into my room in Emerson Hall, my shower has had a constant drip. Trying to do my part towards sustainability I finally decided to put in a work order. I submitted the work oder Saturday morning. Monday morning i received confirmation and approval for the work I requested. Today, Tuesday at 1:30 or so I came back to my room after lunch to find an individual here fixing my shower. I was impressed at the response time. This makes me feel like my tuition money is actually going towards something beneficial and that the college truly does want to keep the students happy and working towards a goal of sustainability.

Quiet Hours

There is several signs up in Emerson that proclaim that each night there is quiet hours. The hours depend on the day of the week. Sunday-Thursday: 10pm - 8am. Friday- Saturday 1am-9am. However, no one follows these guidelines. Monday night I was laying in bed feeling miserable. Because just like everyone else I'm coming down with the common cold. You think it was quiet? Hell no! 1am- people slamming doors and being loud. 1:15- people out in the hall having a conversation if you call yelling back and forth to each other a conversation. Finally, at 1:30 I couldn't take it and I went and yelled down the hall to shut up. I understand its hard to enforce quiet hours, I just wish everyone had a little bit more respect and having to get out of bed to tell someone one to shut up / take their conversation into a room wasn't necessary.

Re: Primaries

The 2008 election cycle started far soon than it has in the past. This has caused several states to move up their primary dates. The idea behind moving a primary date up is to have a greater say in who becomes president. This is because candidates carry momentum from state to state. Two such states who jumped forward this election cycle were Florida and Michigan. However, the Democratic National Party did not want these states to jump forward in the primary process. This has caused the Democratic National Party to claim that Florida and Michigan will not have representatives at the National convention. However, as the primaries have progressed and the race has become closer and closer between Hillary and Obama it looks as if these disputed delegates will be important in the end. Furthermore, changes need to be made to the primary and caucus system. The original author suggested drawing out of a hat but this is completely absurd. 50 different state governments with at least 2 political parties will not and can not waste time drawing slips of paper to see who votes when. Several more likely and feasible solutions are either to have primaries by geographic regions. This would then allow each region a chance to be heard first on a rotating basis. Or theres always the other solution of just having one national primary day where voting takes place across the entire nation. Something similar to this was seen this year when 24 states held contests on February 5.

Re: Wireless of Campus

I agree with the author of the blog "Wireless on Campus," who says we need greater wireless internet access at Ithaca College. I find it frustrating when I go to a friends room or a lounge to work on a project but can not use the internet to help with research. I feel that with the amount of money we pay to go here, they could improve the campus and its educational benefits by adding onto the wireless network. One building on campus that I found had wireless was Friends Hall. First semester I had a history class there and used the wireless almost every class day. Original post appears at http://eyorke1.blogspot.com/

Re; Nicked and Dimed

The author of this article nailed it. We pay excessive fees for things that are free at many other schools. One cost that was not addressed was the parking fees. This is where first year students get screwed over more so than other students. For a first year student to have a car on campus its $213 for the year. This fee is the same for student who bring their car the first day they move in, or upon returning from winter break and are only parking for a semester. However, all non first year students pay a much reduced rate. Their fee is $106 for the year. Thats a savings of $107. Also, their rate is prorated which equates to paying less if your only parking for a semester verses two semesters. The only students who have inexpensive parking is the few grad students who get to park for free. So as you can see parking is just another area where the college is collecting a large amount of money on top of already excessive amount of money each student is paying to go here. One finial thought on parking, the first year students pay the most yet we have the worst parking lots, neither of them are paved and they just reduced the one by adding more faculty parking spots in the lot behind Emerson. Honestly, what faculty member is going to park behind Emerson and walk the 5-10 minutes up campus to where they teach/their office is?

The other day while I was reading up on news in the Sailing community I came across an article tittled "Text Book" this article was mainly a set of 6 pictures. These pictures were a definitional argument. They were depicting the proper way to make a specific sailing move work, and work well. What was nice about this argument was the sequence of 6 pictures allows for multiple stages of the inside mark rounded to be shown. This article was meant for the Sailing community particularly individuals who view the website Sailing Anarchy. This argument is not only clean in what it depicts but it is making a logical appeal to the reader/viewer about the proper way to make an inside mark rounding. Further discussion of the race, and the boats involved was also discussed on the website through a link to a different part of the Sailing Anarchy page. The article, "Text Book" appeared on 1/31/08, on the website http://www.sailinganarchy.com/index_page1.php