2008 Woodie Awards
Editorials Articles
24-hour food
by Editorial Board
College student live in a world of constant activity-be it exercise, classes, Greek meetings, or organizations on and around campus. College students are not yet a part of the nine-to-five world of heart attacks and lunches eaten in cars. Students on campuses everywhere are 24-hour creatures, and it is high time that Saint Louis University recognizes this and submit to popular demand for 24-hour food.
Adolescence lost
by Editorial Board
A story that has been in the news lately is the University of Pennsylvania's acceptance of a 15-year-old into their Ivy League halls. Brittney Exline, one of this year's freshman-class members at the northeastern university is, certainly, entitled to enrollment at a university well in advance of her peers, but such early academic prowess begs the question: What happened to adolescence? The point is not that Exline, and other students her age, should be discouraged from attending universities earlier than their peers, but rather that such young students will be entering into a social strata for which nothing but life experience can prepare them.