Dear First Call Readers,

Spring is here!  What is really important about spring, though, is Spring Fling.  For those of you in the Quad, 24-hour party.  And email the FC team with your room number.  We are coming over.

For those of you not in the Quad, you have this whole week to relish the fact that come this weekend, you can stop by the party and then retreat back to your calm, quiet homestead.

So seeing as we at First Call are amazingly intelligent, supercalifragilisticly fun, and have access to print out our thoughts to the masses, we would like to give you some advice:

Work hard, play hard, and read First Call.

Working hard is the rule we are most flexible with.  Maybe we can allow hard work to equal waking up and going to class for the first half of the week.

Play hard during Fling… need we say more? 

And read First Call. 

There may be a few problems that arise as a result of this system.  After all, you might not be in the best state to sit down and read our creative, literary, journalistic masterpieces after having played so hard.  But it’s not your fault, because we are telling you to play hard. 

So, in case you wait until this weekend to finally read this issue (what is wrong with you, don’t you know how hot these articles are!), you may need these notes to see through your Spring Fling blur:

Christopher Ward writes about the Pennsylvania Primary.  Isaac Katz reviews the movie Southland Tales.  Charlie Isaacs composes a poem. Valeria Tsygankova tells all about her computer difficulties and asks the question: are memories still memories if they are stored in a hard drive?  (The questions in this article may be more fun to contemplate after some hard core flinging.)  And One Penn Dude entertains us with some fiction. 

Then fling harder… and do our crossword to prove it!

Phone Home,

ET (Erica Tobin, Editor)