ENOUGH. The information center at Altgeld Hall features condolence cards that elementary schoolers have sent us.



Again, click the photos to enlarge. Note that the card at left is in Spanish. Note also Merging Lines and Main Lines on the bookshelf.

We learn today of the murder of the student government president at the University of North Carolina. The story also reports a probably unrelated murder of an Auburn student.


We also learn of a Hezbollah endorsed, if not Hezbollah sanctioned, library shooting in Jerusalem.

A student, Yitzhak Dadon, said he shot the attacker first with his own pistol. He told Israel Radio that when the shooting started, he climbed out of a window to a porch. "The terrorist went out and started spraying gunfire in the air," he said. "He stood at the main entrance to the library. ... I shot two bullets in his head, and he started to turn. He started swaying and then a fellow with an M-16 ... finished him off. We kept shooting at him until we emptied our clips."

Spring Break is here, and the animals are going about their business in Watson Crick. (For the past 22 years I've been pronouncing it correctly but not spelling it correctly. It's a bit of academic humor.)


And so a most un-spring-like Spring Break begins. Posting will probably be lighter in the upcoming week.