Wednesday Clean-up

Today is my last full day here at school till next term. I'm going to...
Stay in my PJ's all day
Clean my room
Take out the trash finally
Put everything that needs to go home and stay home all together
Get my final art project from the art building
STUDY MY ASS OFF TO ACE MY GEOLOGY FINAL!

Sooo facebook is covered in Probama Nobama status updates and I'm really getting sick of all the republicans saying our world is going to shit. But my friend Annie who goes to college about 45 minutes away from me wrote an article for her school paper. She's a creative writing major...

Obama win sparks Knox march, history
by Annie Zak

On the evening of November 4th, 2008, 75% of Knox College students were rioting in the streets of Galesburg. It all began when, earlier, around 10:30p.m., on the Knox College campus, a small crowd of students sat in the lobby of Post Residence Hall and watched the television as Barack Obama won Ohio and came closer to winning the election for president.
“Let’s take this to the streets!” Knox Junior Joey Firman said to sophomores Sam Conrad, Noel Sherrard, and myself. After exiting the lobby of Post after Obama’s first and historical speech, the four students headed north on West Street on the college campus and motioned to the rest of the crowd from Post to follow. There was soon a mass of fifty to sixty students marching on West Street, yelling to the buildings they passed “Come outside, get into the streets! O-BA-MA!” As the crowd marched, it turned through the courtyard of campus apartments, near Jazz House and Steak House as well as Tompkins, growing in size as it then headed north on Academy Street. Though the group was confronted by a police officer at one point early in the march, students simply screamed louder and kept marching after he said to “just try to keep it down, guys, and we can’t have you in the streets.” Continuously, the students shouted “Yes we can!” through the streets of Galesburg. The group at the front of the march then decided to steer everyone back toward the quads of Knox College to get more if not all students involved.
Once arriving at the quads, the marchers screamed at people to join them, stood on tables and waved American flags, dancing down the sidewalks. In the next ten minutes, nearly the entire population of the quad residents were on the lawn between there residence halls, cheering so loud it was hard to understand where we were going next.
A group of ten to twenty students slowly began to trickle out of the mass of quad students and toward the south lawn of Old Main, waving their arms until they ached for others to follow and move closer to Main Street. Once on the steps of Old Main, where history has taken place before, history was made once again as hundreds of hundreds of Knox students self-organized in joy of the win of America’s first African-American president. “I feel like I’m going to get smashed against the front door!” said one student as she watched the mass of people run toward Old Main’s steps, as many of them trying to make it onto the steps as possible and defy the capacity of the lawn.
After being on the steps of Old Main for ten minutes, Sam Conrad and I conferred with juniors Rita Lanham, Ariel Krietzman, and Michelle Geyer to once again move the group toward Main Street. With no hesitation for the possibility of cops, we formed a train of linked hands to guide us out of the mass of screaming students and toward Cherry Street. The mob soon followed, now surely the majority of Knox’s student population with even some adults and professors spotted within it. Heading north on Cherry Street, the students were wary but unflinching at the sound of the sirens from two cop cars, but this time, neither police officer got out of his vehicle. The crowd continued to march.
Turning left on Main Street and finally climaxing at the Public Square roundabout, the group stood up on the empty fountain and cheered still more, yelling “Whose change? OUR change! Whose victory? OUR victory!” People continuously screamed until hoarse, “This is the power of the people!” and “Happy history, everyone!” became a common phrase throughout the night.
Earlier in the night, many students were expressing their fears and doubts about the elections. Sophomore Sam Conrad said, “I was optimistic, and then today came and I kept thinking, ‘how could [Obama] win?’ But it’s happening. It’s so crazy. We’re living history.”
After the march, students slowly dispersed from the Public Square and headed back to campus, where Knox’s funk band was playing an impromptu and highly-attended concert outside of Knox’s Center for Fine Arts. Drawing almost as large a crowd as the march itself, students danced and protested that classes should be cancelled for Wednesday, in lieu of history being witnessed Tuesday night.

I think it's so cool to see her writing things like this.