We are chemical beings.

Sometimes our bodies do not synthesize certain chemicals properly. When that happens, similar to diseases like diabetes, we must fix the chemical imbalance.

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On March 18, the front page of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel read, “Mentally ill suffer deadly neglect,” announcing the first installment of Meg Kissinger’s investigative project exposing the dangerous slums in which Milwaukee’s impoverished sufferers of severe mental illness live and die.

Slumlords collect disability checks to house schizophrenic, bipolar and severely depressed adults in illegal rooming houses infested with rats, roaches, human waste and expired food. Tenants dodge drug dealers and thieves in some of Milwaukee’s poorest neighborhoods.

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“Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high-powered rifle and scope.”
– P.J. O'Rourke

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Ah, the fallout of spring break. It’s when every college student is able to discuss and brag about wild, ridiculously overpriced one-week adventures.

Walking through the halls of the Union, one can’t help but notice students who traveled on spring break and those who did not.

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Every laundry room I have ever been associated with has been a contradiction of fundamentals. Dirty clothes are taken out of a clean bedroom and whisked away to a filthy dungeon from which they emerge unsoiled.

It requires a fairly small effort to maintain the cleanliness of a space whose primary inputs and outputs include hot water, soap, fabric softener, dryer sheets and clean clothes — however that is not the case.

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