Spring Break
For 18 straight hours last Friday night, more than 1,000 members of Case Western Reserve University and the surrounding community came together to fight cancer. Students, faculty, alumni, and friends walked in Relay For Life to fight against the second leading killer in America from 6 p.m. Friday to noon Saturday, and rose over $88,000 in the process.
Constantine Petridis, curator of African art at the Cleveland Museum of Art, has a charming sense of humor. "For the 15 people who actually like African art, this is fascinating," he joked as he motioned toward a majestic mother-and-child figure, a true masterpiece of African art.
The Hudson Relays will take place on Saturday, April 25, starting at 9:30 a.m. with the dedication of the statue honoring the late chemistry professor Ignacio "Doc Oc" Ocasio. Following the dedication, the race, which is sponsored by the Class Officer Collective, will begin at 10 a.
This past Friday, over 160 students presented their research at the annual SOURCE Symposium and Poster Session. From 10 a.m. until 3 p.m., students, faculty, and judges filled Thwing Ballroom to view posters or listen to oral presentations. Many of the students were presenting senior capstone projects, while others showcased independent research endeavors.
It was a once- or twice-in-a-lifetime chance for most of the players on the Spartans baseball team, when they packed into three vans for the trip to their game last Thursday. Of course, the once-in-a-lifetime thing was not the fact that they traveled in white vans, nor that they were playing 11th-ranked College of Wooster.
May 7 should be a fine day for almost everyone associated with Case Western Reserve University. Those who managed to finish finals early will already be home, but those who have to stick around for graduation or a last-minute exam will have the opportunity to attend what may be the biggest party of the year for Case Western-ers.
Boys and girls, it's that special time of year: finals. It's the time of year that gives you the warm fuzzies along with a few ill-timed panic attacks. It's a meaningful time to reflect on what we've all learned over the past semester and put it all together, in some misguided hope that we'll actually use what we've spent all this time learning.
