No Swine Flu Vaccine at Cowell

Everybody has a method. Some people like to exercise before they study while others like to take power naps. Some can study with music blaring while others have to be in complete silence. Some snort Adderall while others choose to simply ingest it.

It's annoying, but I find myself doing it. No, it's not sleeping through the alarm clock or spilling instant oatmeal on my shirt in the morning. It's that filler between classes, that substitute for silence.

It's lurking in that awesome party just off the quad, hiding in the shot glasses passed from person to person and in the make-out sessions in the hallway. Swine flu is swirling through the nation's campuses, but despite all the warnings, flu kits and prominently displayed jugs of hand sanitizer, many students, like Georgia Tech freshman Elise Woodall, just aren't that worried.

Heavy beats, bottles and cans in the gutters on Market Street, woefully over-weight and under-clad middle aged men: what can all this signify if not another San Francisco street festival?

As University President Michael Engh, S.J., spoke about the importance of silence in our lives, a peaceful vibe suddenly spread throughout the small and harmonic room.

Leading transportation experts convened in Washington, D.C. for a two-day summit on distracted driving hosted by U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood.

Santa Clara alumna and volleyball standout Caroline Walters was a defensive force for Santa Clara from 2004-2007.

The Santa Clara men's soccer team split a tight pair of West Coast Conference matches this past weekend at Buck Shaw Stadium, falling to University of Portland 1-0 and topping Gonzaga 1-0.

During the 2008 election we were attacked by the phrase "It is time for change." At the time it seemed unlikely that the conservatives would recite this mantra as well. However, with the political climate changing even faster than the global climate, the time for conservatives to step back and reevaluate has come.

It was standing room only Wednesday during the Mass of the Holy Spirit in the Mission Santa Clara de Asis.

It used to be commonplace for there to be many professional sports organizations coated in tradition, wonder and prestige. Today, the chances that any of them can put together back-to-back .500 seasons is a total crapshoot.

It is the beginning of a new school year and I am encouraged to look back on my first two years at Santa Clara in reflection, so that I might be able to look forward to my next two with more hope.à

Thirteen Santa Clara alumni have committed to serving in the Jesuit Volunteer Corps for the next year.

In the midst of Santa Clara University's present drive for sustainability, the construction and management of the Learning Commons has been held up as a guidepost for the rest of the campus. This is not only because of its energy-saving abundance of natural light, but also for its thorough recycling of what remained of the previous library. Yet some may remember the striking fact which, literally, underlies all of these good intentions, one which becomes particularly shocking when we recall that Santa Clara County residents have been officially urged to cut back water use by 15 percent. Similarly, nearby Fresno County languishes in its newly-declared status as a drought disaster area.

Santa Clara alumna and volleyball standout Caroline Walters was a defensive force for Santa Clara from 2004-2007.

San Francisco 49ers Head Coach Mike Singletary, a Super Bowl winner and Hall of Fame linebacker, knows a thing or two about the essentials to winning. He said in a press conference last year, "Our formula is this: we go out, we hit people in the mouth."

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