Snow day musings from the Great Midwest

They canceled classes this morning here at Kent State because of the snow. I came to work as usual, and it should be a quiet day. This is where I work — our new $21-million home. Where have all the students gone?

Snow days in Ohio remind me of the decade we spent in Buffalo, NY, where harsh winters are the norm and no one makes excuses. It took barely four inches of snow to scrub classes at my mega state university today. In Buffalo we called that a dusting. Anything under a foot of snow was brushed off the streets by morning and the school buses along with commuters hit the pavement on schedule.