The Universe Song

Ah, the Scopes monkey trial. One of the most controversial cases in American history, I would think. Besides the issues brought up in class, about deciding curriculum and such, I thought about how it is related to the concept of free speech. Is this strange concept allowed in the classroom? Should it be restricted? Is there something in the school guidelines that specifically forbids free thought and similar speech?

Until someone gets up to the college level, it is very difficult for people to understand that the point of a classroom is to get an education. Even then, it is still difficult to get an education without an overhanging political bias. A person in my seminar group mentioned that. I remember who, and I agree. Classrooms should not be political battlegrounds although they are, unfortunately. Do classrooms then become a battleground for speech rights, as well?

Breaking the Habit

Yes, this blog is about 25 hours late, but at least it's posted. So, I was looking at Yahoo headliners and there were two headlines about Fidel Castro. The first I noticed had to do with a confused, leery, and somewhat lost country of Cuba with no idea of what to do without Castro leading them. The one I noticed after that referred to his attacks against the presidential candidates three days after resigning from power. I don't remember discussing the fact that Castro stepped down in the first place in any of my classes. Considering that this is a major political figure leaving his leadership, I don't remember ever seeing the news about his official resignation or whatever.

Personally, I agree that he would not have completely left. I think he may still have three or four hooks into the actual government, besides remaining as head of the party. A man is not in power for forty or so years and then just up and leave completely.

Tonight, Tonight

Well, here we are again. Another year of working Vagina monologues. I'm sure I've got some enthusiasm stashed away around here. Anyway, I was looking at graduation information yesterday. I looked at the information for the grad faire, I looked at the information given for thank you notes and whatnot, but nowhere does it list the price for the actual cap and gown. I'm sure it's a clever ploy to get graduates to attend the faire and this is February, so I'm looking far in advance, but I would still like to know how much the cap and gown is going to cost me. I looked at a couple places online and the price was about $30 for cap and gown, and I think the tassel as well. However, if that's not the case, I would kind of like to know now so I can start budgeting. I'm not being paranoid about it, I'm just lucky to get 20 hours for the entire month at work.

Opening Night

Well, opening night went about as well as opening night would go. We were finishing a couple things between acts, having audio difficulties, and in general tempting Murphey. However, it ended up being pretty good for opening night. I think tomorrow night will be really good though. That's what I'm hoping for, anyway. And the Denny's run may or may not happen as well. One of the perks of live theatre; you may not be able to go out and get coffee with the rest of the crew between shots but you can invade your local Denny's and have a delayed dinner or extremely early breakfast.