Editor Trevor Drummond shares his experiences from the 3-day event.

At 110 miles per hour, life’s little troubles are subdued to the less-than-quiet reality that the slightest angular readjustment of a thermoplastic wheel piloting a late model cherry Ford Contour could at best lead to an accident, and at worst lead to death.

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“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”1

The week of January 18th was extremely eventful for our campus, the nation, and the world. On Monday, we celebrated the life and legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. On Tuesday, we witnessed the inauguration of the first African-American President of the United States of America. Indeed, in these events, we remembered the brighter side of America and our devotion to social justice.

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Jeffrey Rosen will deliver the annual Tresolini Lecture in Packard Auditorium on March 31, 2009.

Rosen is a professor of law at The George Washington University and legal affairs editor at The New Republic. His lecture entitled “Obama’s Constitution: The Future of the Supreme Court,” will explore the most contentious realms of Constitutional law and how they may be affected by Obama’s prospective Supreme Court appointments.

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“Never again…but I had just come from a place where history was repeating itself.” This is the statement that stood out to me the most at the recent Lehigh lecture by Paul Rusesabagina, whose story is told in the movie, Hotel Rwanda. Mr. Rusesabagina gave the packed Baker Hall auditorium a brief history of the simmering chaos in the decades leading up to the Rwandan genocide in 1994. He then described, in stark detail, the beginning of the carnage in April of that year. He remembers having dinner with his brother-in-law and his wife one evening, shaking hands good-bye that night, and finding out later that they had been killed on their way home. He remembers seeing his wife, whom he had sent along with his four young children to be evacuated, return in the evacuation vehicle beaten so badly they could hardly move for weeks. He remembers the dead bodies lying in scores on the side of the road, many with missing limbs and heads.

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The predictability of Spring-time at Lehigh is, in fact, quite nauseating. The weather will be awful, while tempting you once or twice with the warm weather. Once you cooped up studying for finals, spring will actually arrive. The weather is only part of the story though. Along with the dreary weather, spring at Lehigh brings with it the “rejection season.” The rejections, which come in a variety of types during February and March, are truly what give spring semester its joyous disposition.

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As a result of the current financial crisis, many intuitive lessons of our parents and mentors are becoming countercurrent truths. The industrial age assumption that hard work, a lot of studying, and a little luck will land you a great job for life is no longer a reality. Currently, the unemployment rate is 8.1 percent and rising (U.S. Department of labor). Students in the finance department are now fumbling for jobs and even Engineering Co-ops are being cut.

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Abortion was popularized in the United States by Margaret Sanger, founder of the American Birth Control League, known today as Planned Parenthood. Though the name is more benign, the organization’s purpose remains the same. Interestingly enough, Margaret Sanger promoted abortion as a method of eugenics. Approximately 1.37 million abortions occur every year in the United States alone. [1]

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