Rowing their way down to the Florida Keys from a river Henry Hudson first traveled, two Cleveland State students, senior Jon Hauserman and graduate Tom Kotula took their engineering backgrounds out of the classroom and put them into practice. Formerly on the Crew Team at Cleveland State, the student and the graduate converted an old sail boat into a vessel worthy of completing the 2,000 mile journey around waterways and an ocean.
It is only Afghanistan's second presidential election, but the contest was a heated one. Incumbent Hamid Karzai, a native of the Southeastern Karz village in the Kandahar province, faced tough opponents. The Major Candidates Hamid Karzai was born to a family supportive of former monarch Zahir Shah.
Any CSU commuter got a shock upon opening Campus Mailbag the week before school started to discover that the new South Garage - closed last year to build what Parking Services' FAQ page calls a "solution to the parking shortage" - is not meant for students or faculty.
The Southeastern Conference has just announced that there will be no toleration for Twittering, Facebooking, blogging, or any social network tracking of photos, videos, or scores of collegiate games. A spokesperson from the SEC stated that the reason for this absurd obstruction of media is to keep viewer numbers and ratings increasingly high for sports channels such as ESPN and CBS.
As the Student Government Association (SGA) kicks off the fall 2009 semester, the recently inducted officers are still adjusting to their new roles. Mohammad Faraj, the new president of SGA, is working hard, along with the other officers to inform the students about SGA.