The play is one of two student directed plays that the department is putting on this semester. Graves hit the road after unveiling his plan at the March 13 State Board of Education meeting. He highlighted what he sees as the major initiatives of his plan. It is appropriate, with spring dawning today, to express relief that winter's grip is no longer with us, and jump toward a fresh start. That's what spring does, despite what the originators of the calendar did by placing the new year in the middle of a season.
Spring is about beginnings, removing the old to make way for the new.
Farmers do it. Schools do it. Our national pastime, baseball, is using spring to prepare to blossom in the summer. We should do that as well, in a more parochial way. We should clean up the messes we've let accumulate in and around our houses.