South Dakota’s legislative body just passed a bill that would restrict all abortion except in the case where the mother would die as a result of childbirth (Sources: WorldNetDaily, Boston.com)

Now I am pro-choice (for reasons that I don’t have the strength in my fingers to address at the moment) but I have to admit, the idea of a big battle rehashing Roe v. Wade just seems exciting to me. Maybe we can finally get this country to stand up and reaffirm what (last time I heard) 60% of Americans agree about: Abortion should be legal in America.

Or the pro-lifers could win and we could be set back 30 years… (oh god I hope not)

I want to see the movie Vera Drake. Stay tuned.

After a fun weekend it seems as if Monday is back here. I am sitting in a tea shop that is located on the first floor of one of Loyola’s downtown buildings, skipping a class that I would have missed half of anyways (had an important meeting, and I’m not missing anything.) I have a lot of work to do this week, but really all I just can’t wait until the weekend when I go home for spring break.

Going home for spring break… Doesn’t sound too much like the MTV Spring Break lineup, but it’s cheap and it is comfy.

Short messages are best.

I have been intrigued by the “Boot Windows XP on an Intel Mac” contest for a few weeks now. Not everyone is happy with the guy who is running it (opening other sites, adding advertisements (which probably don’t cover his hosting costs,) etc) and I can’t say that I don’t agree with many of the detractors. Nevertheless, a few weeks ago I did donate $3 and got my link on his site.

So now that I have a monetary connection to the project (albeit a rather small one) I find myself checking the contest website for news. Turns out someone got the Windows XP installer to run by doing some sort of plugin for the bootloader. The problem here is that the person who did it didn’t post any information about how exactly he did it, something that may be caused because he wants to win the prize. (a theory previously discussed on osx86project.org) This is a rather large, complex, project going on here. One that could be aided by additional assistance from others, but since everyone wants their $12k I would be somewhat amazed if there is a working solution before the deadline.

I could be wrong. With the MacBook Pros shipping there is going to be a very large group of very experienced people who didn’t want to invest in an Intel iMac just to find themselves stuck or have the prize money taken away by someone else.

Do I think someone will figure it out? Yes. While there is prize money? Doubtful.
Hopefully before I get mine (circa end of the summer, before school starts.)

Another Thursday Night here in Creighton Hall 210. The dynamic seems to have changed here, with a lot more sensible conversation. It seems that now the truth is out people seem to be more acceptable and thoughtful.

We had a somewhat long discussion about my roommate’s future wife. His main concern on women is if she is willing to stay home with his kids. Needless to say, I disagree with this being anyone’s primary concern. Now I would have no problem with a wife who would stay home with her kids, but I would much prefer to share the responsibility with my future wife.

The girl that was passed out on top of the toilet last week seems to be a lot more reasonable now. I keep saying that she is good looking and really nice, but annoying and prudish. I told her that I liked her at the start of the semester (which is true) and when she was away I was talking to my roommate about how I still found her interesting. Oh well, I like someone else.

Another girl is over here, the toilet-drunk girl’s roommate. She is (based on general consensus) very good looking (and knows that all the guys say that) but not my type of girl. I don’t know what is in to me, but I tend to like girls that others seem to think are not worth it.

Room selection for sophomore year is coming up soon. The school assigns things based on a random number. I am really hoping to have a room that is with a few other people from my former dorm. I keep telling people that I will open a cash bar, but to be honest I doubt it will happen. It just seems to be too risky and pricey. When I first got some Grey Goose Vodka I told my roommate that if the room got raided I wouldn’t let the resident assistants take my fine vodka. I don’t know…

The interesting thing about this post is that it is being typed via a VNC session to my computer. A computer at which the drunk girl’s roommate is watching. As she states to the rest of the room that she finds me and this blog to be very similar to Cameron Crowe’s Vanilla Sky. As the discussion has come back to my roommate’s shallow preference in women, she chimes in with a discussion of how if she spent a ton of time in college she would not want to just let it all go to be a housewife. To which I yelled “THANK YOU!” Just to think, at the start of the night I thought of her to be so much more shallow… Interesting, she seems like someone I should try to foster a friendship with. If she doesn’t get pissed after she reads this.

Sarah over at CampusTavern (Marquette University Student-Run Blog) writes about Indianapolis high school’s decision not to censor a musical they were performing. The play, the tony-award-winning Ragtime, has multiple instances of the ‘n-word’, swearing, and sexual references (according to the original article at IndyStar.) Originally everything except the n-word was removed, but after protests instead of removing that as well the principal added everything back in.

A similar thing happened back in my high school a year or so before I attended. While not quite as bad, it was twice as sad: some in the ‘community’ were pissed that the school was putting on Grease without removing the cigarettes.) Of course the school’s official stance was “We can’t remove it, the contract says no” but honestly, I thought it was a great decision.

Personally I think keeping everything intact is, in general, a good decision… The story is about race and a White family’s attempt to come to terms with it. When I was in English class in high school the english department never overtly censored their material, even if it contained profanity, sexual references, etc. I was smart enough by then to understand that those words, while not proper, had historical significance. In this case, if the play’s original text has those words they should be included.

Freedom of speech in an academic setting presents itself here at Loyola too.

The wonderful Ann Coulter is coming to Loyola March 23rd to speak. 1000 seats are available for the event which is costing the Student Activity Fund (which we all pay into) $25,000 to host. There has been a lot of debate around here on if that is a good decision. I think it is, and here’s the reasoning that Father Garanzini, President of the University, has said recently after much national debate about his decision to allow The Vagina Monologues to be performed at Loyola: Loyola University Chicago, while a Jesuit institution that instills strong values in its students, trusts it’s students and faculty to make up their own minds. BUT I do have one fear: After her actions at the University of Connecticut I have to wonder if the risk the university is taking is really worth it.

Oh well… I’m going to be at the front of the line to get my Coulter tickets.