Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing. ? Johann Wolfgang von GoetheImprovisational comedy is like midair acrobatics without a safety net.
If reaction by various "bloggers" is any indication, David Brooks' recent New York Times column on the "lonely campus voices" of campus conservatives has caused quite a stir.
Rock and roll emerged with social revolution, expressing the frustrations of an entire generation.
Say it loud, I'm a geek and I'm proudIn response to the article on the Mr. Engineering Pageant (Nov.
President Bush got the deluxe tour of England last week, under the beaming gaze of Tony Blair and the polite smiles of Queen Elizabeth.
An article in Philadelphia's City Paper last year asked the following rhetorical questions. Would you invite Enron's Kenneth Lay to talk about corporate ethics?
I believe that most students could use a heavy dose of cultural immersion abroad. What I learned from 18 years of living in the United Kingdom is the invaluable appreciation of another culture and another way of life.
Were John Ashcroft's minions observing my movements over the past few weeks, I would probably rate a file in the cabinet of some shadowy Homeland Security organization.
Instead of protesting, students should support democracy in TaiwanRegarding 'New York protest draws Chinese grad students' (Fri., Nov.
I am sick and tired of constantly apologizing; I can not stand my penitent demeanor which always puts me in the wrong and everyone else in the right.
When the Massachusetts State Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that same-sex couples have the constitutional right to marry, only the justices were able to remain dispassionate.
The folks at McDonald's have a beef with the folks at Merriam-Webster, whose latest dictionary records the neologism "mcjob,"defining it as a "low-paying job that requires little skill and offers little opportunity for advancement." Mcjob thus claims its place alongside mcmansion, mcpaper and other etymological witnesses to the phenomenal success of the hamburgerer-in-chief.Whether it is a favorable or friendly witness is of course questionable, and James Cantalupo, the Chief Executive Officer of McDonald's, has issued a formal protest and a demand that the word be expunged from the lexicographical record.
Moderation may appease the masses, but it does not make a good presidential candidateRegarding "Sen.
Simply because there are improvement in Iraq does not mean Bush has chosen the best policyRegarding 'Contrary to media's coverage, there is steady progress in Iraq' (Tue., Nov.
In his recent speech to the National Endowment for Democracy, President Bush called for a democratic revolution of sorts in the Middle East.
It was seven years into the epidemic and over 55,000 infections nationwide (less women died from breast cancer last year), before President Reagan uttered the name AIDS in public.
Besides moderation, the only more potent sedative for young Americans may be the gentle voice of a college professor, Princeton excluded.
Intellectualism is dead. Across the campus, students in the dorms, dining halls and eating clubs are forgoing insight into molecular structure and ethical value in exchange for chatter of pop princesses and 80s flicks.
Senior class officers accept responsibility for ticket problems, but managed as best they could.I write to clarify and comment on a few points that Ryan Walsh made in his recent editorial titled "Whose ticket is it anyway?"The policy of each person being able to purchase as many tickets as they had PUIDs was set by the senior class officers and not by "Frist/Richardson" as Walsh suggested.
When the snow falls on campus for the first time this season, pants and bras won't fall with it. President Shapiro banned the Nude Olympics several years ago, and it's up to Shirley to bring them back.
