So, by now many of you have heard about the teach-in protest that was held on our campus. Faculty and students gathered in the mall to demand that the university stop its work on all military weapons projects.

That was the main goal, despite the fact that what's gotten the most press is one of our professors saying he wished the U.S. would lose the war and suffer "a million Mogadishus." (For those who don't remember, it was the 1993 incident where 18 of our soldiers were murdered - on which a major movie was recently released.)

A lot of top-secret projects are developed on campus. Or rather, I should say under campus. We may be the only campus in the country that has as many acres of underground facilities as we do above ground. Yes, we were home to the Big Bomb, that's why it was called the "Manhattan Project" before they moved it to the U of Chicago because of the threat of axis submarines in the Harbor.

I highly doubt that those protesters will have any impact on the amount of arms development that occurs on campus other than tightened security and more layers of red tape to classify secrecy. Oh yea, that and the fact that they brought worldwide attention to our school as a legitimate target! Grrr.