If you had told me the day the NBA lockout ended, that come April the Chicago Bulls would sport the best record in the league despite missing MVP Derrick Rose for 21 games, Rip Hamilton only taking to the court 17 times, and Luol Deng…
Posts published in April 2012
Services like Netflix and YouTube have made the most recent films readily available to anyone. Can we find anything of value in the muck of b-movies, ambitious failures and exploitative crap-fests? We’re going to find out in Dispatches from Instant View Purgatory. What’re we watching:…
The Garrett Cultural Center policy requiring student groups to pay for additional event security will now be paid for by the university. “We heard from the students that they’d greatly appreciate if the university would not charge them for additional police security,” said Vice President…
Jason Segel’s career path is one of non-stop contradictions. Whether it’s playing the loveable but idiotic stoner in Freaks and Geeks and “Knocked Up,” to the affable break-up victim in “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” or the quirky kid at heart in “The Muppets,” he’s always the…
A curriculum change for social studies and history secondary education majors was approved by the faculty senate last Thursday evening. A major in history secondary education will no longer be available. “We are combining the best of both programs,” said Dean Cantu, chair of the…
Yes For the first time in two seasons, the Final Four did not have a team from outside one of the six power conferences. And it showed. I may be in the minority, but I loved seeing Butler in the National Championship game two years…
One of the most fruitless endeavors in being a music fan is to try to follow buzz bands. Breaking on the blogosphere before slowly ending up in commercials, movie trailers and seeping into your subconscious, these groups roar onto the scene before fizzling out quickly,…
Last semester students expressed their unhappiness and frustration toward the party policy of the Garrett Cultural Center. Among the rules and regulations that came along with hosting an event at the center, there are a few specific parts of the policy that seem unfair to…
At the end of its first season, The Killing alienated many of its viewers with its plot developments. The drama about the investigation of a murdered teenage girl revealed that its big discovery never actually happened and that many pieces of evidence, up to that…
While the U.S. Supreme Court is focused on whether the government can force people to buy health care, it’s time to question how smart these people actually are. Monday, the Supreme Court ruled with a 5-4 vote that a man’s civil rights weren’t violated when…