Spring Break
After more than 20 years, the Cauldron is signing off as an independent, student-run publication, leaving UST without its watchdog of a student paper.
It's hard to believe that my college career at the University of St. Thomas has actually come to an end.
This time last year, my grandfather passed away. Everything stopped cold for me. I rescheduled my midterms and then proceeded to forget entirely about school. As the designated writer in the family, I numbly wrote his obituary, which ran in the Chronicle next to the crossword puzzles that he did every day.
Shocking though it may seem, I'm not actually perfect-I do, in fact, have some minor character flaws. As my editors, friends and parents know, procrastination is one of my biggest weaknesses. Something most people don't know is that I also have a teensy anger management problem.
I was disappointed to learn that the administration of this University has once again stifled free expression on our campus with the cancellation of the venerable Dolores Huerta's speaking engagement.
UST is taking a hard look at its current curriculum. Since this planet is witnessing the Sixth Great Extinction, my recommendation is to concentrate on healing this world by environmental restoration and structuring our accounting, taxes, political, social and economic spheres to live well and get out of our fossil-fuel-based, automobile-centered, throwaway, war-ridden economy that requires 1.4 billion of the world's citizens to live in poverty.