A terrible thing happened to me last week. I woke up at my usual time about 9 a.m., climbed down my rickety ladder and plopped into my computer chair. Stirring my laptop’s mouse, I called up the screen prepared to listen to some “wake-up” tunes.…
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After flipping through TIME magazine for about an hour trying think of things to write my column on, I stumbled on something golden. It was an article in which a columnist wrote about the “25 things” notes on Facebook. She went through a few notes…
Since President Barack Obama took office about a month ago, it’s easy for me to open a newspaper and see something I’m happy with. That’s something that did not happen once in the entirety of George W. Bush’s reign. Granted, I was in the fifth…
To claim that the Middle East dislikes the United States mainly for its support of Israel would be a great understatement. First of all, the United States has offended the Middle East in various ways. The U.S. military presence in Iraq, Iraqi invasion in 2003…
A lot of misinformation is currently floating around about Freedom of Choice Act, and I am afraid that Brian Lock’s letter that ran on Feb. 6 reflects some of this. First, the law of the land currently is that abortions are banned post-viability, when the…
The Library Student Advisory Committee just released a draft of changes its members feel need to be made to the Cullom-Davis Library. The committee was created in response to low Princeton Review rankings the past two years. It is comprised of students, and it aims…
A truly dreadful day is approaching. Singles Awareness Day aka Valentine’s Day, or as I like to refer to it, VD makes its annual round. If you’ve read my columns or know me, I’m sure you’ll be able to guess this little tidbit about me…
All over the world, and especially in the Middle East, America is strongly disliked, even hated. Insurgents in Iraq and radicals elsewhere are never short of recruits to carry out violence against America. But why? What did we ever do to them? The average Middle…
Student-atlhete That word is commonly thrown around for people who play sports in college. Notice the first word, student, comes before the second word, athlete. This is a fact many fans don’t consider. Stories are written day-in and day-out about how athletes perform on…
It seems as though more has been accomplished in the first three weeks of President Barack Obama’s administration than former President George W. Bush did in the last eight months of his. But it’s hard to say whether the economic stimulus bill that passed in…