Of Sophomores and Storm Troopers

After the April 8 total solar eclipse, a campus awakening met by violence and the University’s desperate quest for identity and purpose in the digital age.

Planet Waves Weekly for May 9, 2024 by Eric Francis

Aries (March 20-April 19) — Mars in your sign is serving as a confidence-building exercise. How that might develop is being shown all the ways that you fall short on faith in yourself and in your abilities. You might have missed these otherwise, as you do a great job of faking it when you have … Read more

Planet Waves Weekly for May 2, 2024 by Eric Francis

Aries (March 20-April 19) — Orient your psychic state around what you think people think of you and you’ll discover a formula for misery. State that in a succinct and original way, you can get a patent and make a lot of money. However, you’ve got something much better going on, which is a formula … Read more

American Spring

Dear Friend and Reader: FOR THE FIRST TIME in many years, antiwar protests have spread among college and university campuses in the United States. I don’t remember this happening in all the time I’ve been covering student activism in all of its forms since around 1983. In that era, there were anti-apartheid protests, though they … Read more

Planet Waves Monthly for May by Eric Francis

Aries (March 20-April 19) — As part of music study, you learn something, then you learn it again, then a few years later, you might learn it a third time. This is all mingled in with practice, trial and error, forgetting and remembering. With Mercury now moving direct through your sign, covering the places where … Read more