Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

The Senator from New York took the state of Pa. to keep her campaign alive. She got 28 more delegates, but only won by 8 percent.

Clinton scored her victory by winning the majority of the votes of blue-collar workers, women and white men in an election in which the economy was the dominant concern, according to exit polls.

The Obama campaign is still very much alive, however, as Clinton still trails Obama by a significant margin in the delegate count.

The road to the Democratic Convention in Denver has just begun.

“It’s been really calm,” Adrian Curtin, a freshman at Drexel and Committee of Seventy volunteer said.

The volunteers said that since 3:30pm the polls surrounding Drexel have been pretty light.  Their guess as to why it’s so light?  Voter apathy and confusion.

When I was standing in line for the polls 4 people ahead of me came to the wrong place to vote.  Although there may be a record number of voters out there, how many votes will actually be counted?

The following construction projects begin in the spring/summer:

• Renovation of Alpha Pi Lambda House on 33rd and Powelton Avenue
• Powelton Green Park on empty lot at 31st and Powelton Avenue
• Traffic light at 34th and Lancaster Avenue
• Tennis courts on empty lot behind 7-Eleven
• Integrated sciences building in parking lot behind Korman, 33rd and Chestnut Street
• Expansion of the Daskalakis Athletic Center out to Market Street
• New Dormitory and retail on 34th and Powelton Avenue, where tennis courts are

Source: Multiple Triangle Articles
Photo courtesy of howstuffworks.com

Obama has admitted to being the underdog in what has become a showdown between the candidates and the Clinton campaign is jumping on that to undermine Obama’s “electability.” 

 

“I’m not predicting a win,” Obama said in a morning radio interview with KDKA-AM radio in Pittsburgh. “I’m predicting that it’s going to be close and that we are going to do a lot better than people expect.” 

 

With the beautiful weather and voting polls packed today in Center City, only time will tell.

Alia Sabur is 19 years old and is becoming the youngest person in world history to be a university professor. She will be teaching at Seoul’s Konkuk University as a full-time professor in the Graduate School Department of Advanced Technology Fusion.

Sabur is recognized as the youngest professor in history by the Guinness Book of World Records. Sabur broke the record set in 1717 by Colin Maclaurin, a Scottish mathematician and close friend of Isaac Newton, who became a professor at age 19.

Sabur went to college after 4th grade, earning a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from Stony Brook University at the age of 14. She earned her MS and PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from Drexel.

Click here to see the full article. Photo courtesy of Korea.net.

There will be a five-act concert for Drexel students this weekend at the Philadelphia Armory on our campus, in support of Earth Day. In order to gain admission, students must bring two aluminum, glass, or plastic bottles to the armory to be recycled.

The concert is being put on by Drexel’s Sierra Club and caps off multiple activities on campus for Earth Day 2008.

The five acts performing are Breaking the Silence, Drop Collective, Leiana, Matt Duke and Papa Midnight. The concert will be at the armory on Saturday, 4/26, with the doors opening at 6:30pm and the show starting at 7pm.

Picture is of Breaking the Silence, courtesy of their MySpace Page.

An article on KYW1060.com is reporting that students at at least nine Pennyslvania college campuses are going to be wearing empty holsters this week to classes, in order to protest concealed weapons bans at schools.

Jeremy Clark of Bethlehem, and a Villanova Law School student finishing up his second year, is one of about ten Villanova students taking part in the “Empty Holster Protest.”

Clark explains that there are two reasons he is supporting the protest: “First, is to raise awareness and dispel a lot of myths about concealed carry and to show people that concelead carry actually helps reduce crime. The second goal is to get states and school administrators to change their policies.” Clark, however, doesn’t have much hope that Villanova will change its no-concealed weapons policy in the near future.

Photo courtesy of KYW1060.com.

On May 5, the ability to use single-stream recycling, putting all of the recyclables in one container, will expand to 150,000 homes in North and lower Northeast Philadelphia, according to a Philadelphia Inquirer article. Once this is completed, only about 80,000 homes in the entire city will not have single-stream, but they will be added in July, according to the Street’s Department.

Before the single-stream programs began two years ago, the city only recycled about 5.5% of their waste, one of the lowest rates nationwide for large cities. The rate is now approaching 8%, with the goal to reach 18%, which is the national average. The tonnage of recycled items has increased 35%, and while the city pays $62 to send a ton of trash to the landfill, it can sell the recyclables for $37 a ton.

After the remaining neighborhoods get single-stream recycling in the next 3 months, the next goals will be to convert neighborhoods which get recyclables picked up every two weeks changed to be get them picked up every week, starting in January 2009. This includes Powelton Village and all of University City, in West Philadelphia.

Photo courtesy of CleanWaterAction.org.

The PhillyNews.com blog is reporting that the Philly Pretzel Factory will be giving away three free pretzels to everyone who goes to one of their 90 locations.

The company is expecting to use about 20,000 pounds of flour for the nearly 100,000 pretzels it expects to give away on National Pretzel Day, as they are calling it.

The polls have officially opened for the 2008 Pa. Primary and only one will stand at the end of the night.  Will it be Clinton or Obama?

Turnout at the Pennsylvania polls is expected to shatter all previous records as voters cast their ballots in today’s primary elections, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer.

The latest polls have shown Obama ahead of Clinton 2-1, but now it is up to the voters…

It’s your turn to decide.