Loyola Greyhound

My good buddy Nick Alexopulos wrote a fantastic column in last year's Greyhound talking about the wonder and greatness that is New Jersey. Nick, I'm a fellow Jerseyian, but I have to tell you something: I was ashamed to be one the other week.

After months of confusion as an ignorant, SUV-driving patriot, I finally understand why terrorists hate America. Their desire to destroy us does not stem from our access to "Sex in the City" and our abundance of joint Express/Structure shops. Oh no. Terrorists hate America because Americans are dimwitted simpletons.

In the span of four days I picked the last spring semester classes and housing of my college life. Time went by a lot faster than I imagined. Yes, at 20 even I am starting to feel old. I have to say the moment that defined my elderliness was when I explained to a freshman how game six of the 1986 World Series ended.

I woke up two Sundays ago, disgruntled and anxious, in a bed in a hotel room in the middle of Seattle, Wash. I took this trip to the west coast because The Greyhound editorial staff was invited to attend the 2003 Associated Collegiate Press conference.

Sept. 11, 2001: I walked into my dorm as a scared freshman in her second full week of college only to be confronted by the still-haunting words, "Hey, they're bombing your city." I wordlessly watched with a numb heart while images of my home, the streets I walked, the New Yorkers I loved, flashed horrifically across the screen like a Steven King nightmare sequence.

After browsing my alma mater's web site for the first time in many years, I had the utter displeasure of reading a column full of disturbing rhetoric, reminiscent of the ethnocentric, elitist dialogue that gets me out of bed every morning to continue to struggle for the marginalized and oppressed in our world.

War is upon us and everywhere we look, it is there to stare indifferently back at us. There are nearly an infinite number of issues to dissect about this topic. I will address two specifically. The first of these is: Should we go to war or not? I believe that Americans have become too soft in this age of political correctness and need to wake up to weigh the options.

Here is an essay in logic, an absolute science so lacking from the modern world. If a person cannot make light of something, then one can only make dark of it. From the three premises that this abstract thing can only be made dark, darkness is the absence of light, and visual images cannot be registered in the human brain in the absence of light, it must follow that this abstract thing is completely invisible.

To the Loyola College Community: Stonewall House was en-visioned as an all-inclusive special interest housing option founded in the Jesuit tradition of men and women for others. It is meant to provide GLBT individuals and their allies with an understanding, accepting, and nurturing environ-ment in which they can live their lives openly and honestly, free from bias and harassment.