Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Monday, October 20, 2008
Trayless Kimball Postponed
To the members of the Holy Cross Community,
I have good news to report this evening. The decision to remove trays from Upper Kimball dining hall has been postponed. Originally slated to occur after Winter Break, the decision was made to go trayless after Columbus Day. Thanks to our efforts on the Senate, the efforts of Kelly and Ed our Co-Presidents, and especially Melissa Ogonowski, the SGA Director of Environmental concerns, the decision was made to postpone the switch.
Ogonowski exposed the rhetoric behind the administration's environmental argument in favor of removing trays and suggested that removing trays will have no environmental benefits. This reveals the flawed economic motive of the College in removing trays. There are a number of other suggestions to improve the College's "environmental footprint" without removing trays. As a result, the College has decided to explore all options before removing trays.
I have good news to report this evening. The decision to remove trays from Upper Kimball dining hall has been postponed. Originally slated to occur after Winter Break, the decision was made to go trayless after Columbus Day. Thanks to our efforts on the Senate, the efforts of Kelly and Ed our Co-Presidents, and especially Melissa Ogonowski, the SGA Director of Environmental concerns, the decision was made to postpone the switch.
Ogonowski exposed the rhetoric behind the administration's environmental argument in favor of removing trays and suggested that removing trays will have no environmental benefits. This reveals the flawed economic motive of the College in removing trays. There are a number of other suggestions to improve the College's "environmental footprint" without removing trays. As a result, the College has decided to explore all options before removing trays.
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Online Archive
Starting next Wednesday, October 15th, The Right Source Radio Show will be archived online here at hcrightsource.blogspot.com. This will allow listeners to check out any previous shows that he or she might have missed. As always, our show is broadcast live online via the link to the right of this posting.
Presidential Debate, 10/07
The gloves came off last night as Presidential hopefuls John McCain (R-AZ) and Barack Obama (D-IL) met in a "town hall" meeting in Nashville. The debate went as most would expect - a fair amount of dodging questions and caustic remarks by both candidates. One would be naive to think that neither candidate prepared possible answers before the debate, but the town hall format did allow for more off-the-cuff answers. John McCain was more comfortable from the start. Although his answers were not always clear and concise, Senator McCain seemed to connect with the people. His answers were frank and open. Senator Obama appeared to stumble over words while trying to answer a few questions in the beginning. Once he settled in, it was deja vu all over again with Obama avoiding questions about taxes and vaguely responding to concerns over the economy.
This was McCain's chance to land a solid blow to the Obama-maina that has flooded the airwaves of the country. It was not a knockout by a longshot, but McCain landed several punches and severely questioned the repute of Obama's senior economic advisers. The substance of answers to economic questions, however, involved more finger pointing than anything else. Obama ridiculed McCain for stating that the "fundamentals of our economy are strong," but the United States' economy does in fact stand on solid ground. The country saw a fair amount of growth over the summer and during the second quarter. Although the number was a little under 3%, the United States continues to perform well in the GDP projections for this year. Any economic problems are only exacerbated by the media's sensationalism which causes bank runs and stock market sell-offs.
The national polls are very close but McCain needed a strong performance to help in the battleground states. Obama held leads going into the debate in Colorado and Ohio--two pivotal states in the general election. The debate last night should help McCain to increase, if not challenge Obama's position. Still, however, these are simply polls and polls have a tendency to be incorrect (look at the Dewey-FDR poll back seventy years ago.) ...And the victor is: Senator John McCain.
----An interesting side note, Cleveland Browns QB Brady Quinn announced his support of John McCain in the election and introduced McCain at a Cleveland area rally this afternoon.----
This was McCain's chance to land a solid blow to the Obama-maina that has flooded the airwaves of the country. It was not a knockout by a longshot, but McCain landed several punches and severely questioned the repute of Obama's senior economic advisers. The substance of answers to economic questions, however, involved more finger pointing than anything else. Obama ridiculed McCain for stating that the "fundamentals of our economy are strong," but the United States' economy does in fact stand on solid ground. The country saw a fair amount of growth over the summer and during the second quarter. Although the number was a little under 3%, the United States continues to perform well in the GDP projections for this year. Any economic problems are only exacerbated by the media's sensationalism which causes bank runs and stock market sell-offs.
The national polls are very close but McCain needed a strong performance to help in the battleground states. Obama held leads going into the debate in Colorado and Ohio--two pivotal states in the general election. The debate last night should help McCain to increase, if not challenge Obama's position. Still, however, these are simply polls and polls have a tendency to be incorrect (look at the Dewey-FDR poll back seventy years ago.) ...And the victor is: Senator John McCain.
----An interesting side note, Cleveland Browns QB Brady Quinn announced his support of John McCain in the election and introduced McCain at a Cleveland area rally this afternoon.----
Friday, October 3, 2008
First Show Next Week
The show will be kicking off with its first broadcast on Monday, October 6 at 3pm. Join us by listening to the radio or online. We have so much to discuss with all the current issues and the upcoming election. As always call in if you want to discuss any of the issues we are talking about or if you want to bring up a new topic you want to hear us discuss.
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