December 8, 2000
Volume CXXXII, Number 12

    What does the date December 12 mean to you? Some of you might flip open your little black agenda books and find that it signifies the last day in a row that is neatly framed with the pink highlighter you decided to use to designate "Reading Week," which comes right before the neat transition into the use of the green highlighter border that signifies "exam period," which is followed by an explosion of metallic silver-pen snowflakes surrounding a swirly-lettered "December Break, Hooray!"

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Letter from London: Sightseeing
By JAMES FISHER, STAFF WRITER

   LONDON-If I were a pessimist, I'd say gobal warming has come to London.
   This week it's been unusually warm, in the 50s (11 degrees C to us). The rain has also dropped off, although this fall has been the wettest in over 200 years-18 inches of rain have drenched the streets of the city in the past few months.

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The scoop on cars: What you should know, really
By MIKE SAUR, CONTRIBUTOR

    Perhaps the biggest mistake a friend can make is to ask me a question about any automotive topic. Seriously, once asked, I will not shut up. So, in the spirit of the "common good," I've decided to get the car bug out of my system and to provide anyone fortunate enough to pick up this week's Orient with the general basics on cars.

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Campus construction continues

Two Years Beneath the Pines: From Pines to Palms

O.O. Howard, Part 11: With Sherman in Georgia

Holidays at the Social Houses