We’ve been complaining about the same thing for years, and it’s time something gets done about it: dead week isn’t dead.
The Egyptians had hieroglyphics. Native Americans had cave wall paintings. College students have library desktop etchings. It is the time-tested way for students everywhere to vent as they drift away from organic chemistry equations.
The first time I spoke to him, he was jumping up and down and wearing a skeleton suit. Michael Ivins, The Flaming Lips’ bassist, and I were backstage in Oklahoma City’s Ford Center preparing for the band’s 2008 New Year’s concert. Ivins was weird and stoic. However, I didn’t think any part of him was dangerous — and that was when he was dressed as skeleton.
OSU’s got 99 problems, but a ditch ain’t one. Dec. 30, 2005: Texas oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens makes a $165 million donation to the OSU Athletic Department. Students and faculty rejoice. Fast-forward to almost three years later, to fall 2008. The Athletic Village has been postponed indefinitely. The northeast side of campus is a landfill: a large portion is covered with mounds of dirt, chunks of concrete and piles of scrap metal surrounded by cheap makeshift fencing.
It all started in 2005, when the university proposed the plan to the Board of Regents. A plan that would cost the university more money than it anticipated in court fees and more headaches than anyone could have predicted. The headaches still plague several people. That’s right, it’s the OSU Master Plan’s Athletic Village — which hasn’t happened. It’s been 4 years, and at this point there’s no turning back.
Platinum Dunes, the production company behind the recent remakes of “Friday the 13th” and “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre,” announced Jackie Earle Haley would play Freddy Krueger in its upcoming “Nightmare on Elm Street” remake. In 2005, Haley received an Oscar nomination for his role in “Little Children” as a convicted pedophile seeking rehabilitation and redemption. This year, he showed up as the tormented superhero Rorschach in “The Watchmen.”
Next year, Haley will take on one of the most iconic figures in American popular culture. It will be intriguing to see his version of Krueger.
Hopefully you recognize the call to arms from the old Captain Planet cartoon. If not, chances are that you aren’t doing you part for Earth Day.
But, whether you have been doing your part, let’s face it: Earth Day, which was started in 1970 as a way to get environmental issues on the national agenda, isn’t working anymore.
With dead week and finals coming up, students are devoting themselves to long hours and late nights studying.
What better way to accompany study sessions than snacks? It’s hard to study on an empty stomach. Group study sessions are always better when pizza is involved. The sugar in candy provides little bursts of energy and chocolate relieves stress.
I have what I like to call the “Comet dance.” It involves me holding a can of Comet bleach, spraying my shower walls with water and shaking the bleach all over with the fury of a rabid animal. This might sound weird, but I usually cleaned the bathroom my sister and I shared back home; I know what it is like to scrub the sink, wipe the mirror and get on my knees to scrub the toilet and tub — and not be appreciated.
Like everything in this world that evolves, we tend to divide growth and development into stages. There are set stages for medical diagnoses, like cancer and depression. There are stages for certain addictions, like smoking and drugs. We also have stages that distinguish the periods leading to life and death.
My mother always said something is only worth what someone will pay you for it. Gauging the value of a product with a retail price can be easily done, but what about dignity? How much is yours worth?
We are this far into human existence and still hung up on the color of everyone’s skin. The purpose of affirmative action is to improve employment or educational opportunities for members of minority groups and women. That means a position or a spot is made inaccessible people because of their skin color or gender, creating a constitutional paradox by using inequality to create equality in the long run. Instead of putting a Band-Aid on the problem, we should try to find the heart of it.
The first point I will concede is that the most qualified person should get the job, and in an ideal world, that would include a diverse mix of people. Unfortunately, Americans — most of the world, even — aren’t mature enough to hire diverse applicants on their own. We need government legislation to ensure we have a diverse workforce.
Today’s topic: things that are ridiculous. Ridiculous is an adjective used to describe things that deserve ridicule. Ridicule means to mock or maliciously belittle. So what do I find ridiculous?
Late in the Democratic primary race, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton took their epic battle into the hills of West Virginia. Clinton won that state by a wide margin, capturing 67 percent of the votes.
Break out your hats: it’s time for a tea party.
A grassroots movement is holding antitax tea parties across the United States today to protest rising tax rates — on the same day taxes are due.
The most beautiful people in this world … are Photoshopped. For a whopping $142.88 (at Walmart), you can turn beer bellies into abs of steal, plump thin lips into a luscious pout, magically trim size six waists into size threes and add numerous other special effects, if you want to. And it’s all made possible with the photo editing computer software, Adobe Photoshop.
It’s time we broke down some walls on campus. Starting with the Peace by Piece wall. Although the editorial board members agree that words have a lot of power, we’re not all on board with this idea. It could easily become a waste of time and money if students aren’t responsible about it.
I gave in. I finally did it. No, I didn’t check out the latest spring wear American Eagle has to offer. Instead, I spent about five minutes in a tanning bed while it was turned on.
When faced with the assignment of determining elements that would make a perfect world, I thought, “impossible.” I couldn’t even scratch the surface of all the changes that need to be made in the world. Instead, I opted for a list of changes that would better our own country’s warped little society. So, although it might not create a utopian society, here is my list — David Letterman Top 10-style — of steps toward a more perfect U.S.
It’s time everyone stepped up and saved our nation. And we can do it in fewer than 400 words.
The first thing we need to do as a nation is stop playing the blame game. It doesn’t matter who spilled the milk (Clinton) as much as getting it cleaned up.
One evening when I was a graduate student at the University of Kentucky, a young lady invited me to her mother’s house. I noticed a huge engraved silver cup standing at the fireplace. I have not seen the like since. It was awarded to Jay Rhodemyre, my date’s late father, for being the most valuable player in the 1949 College All Stars - Chicago Cardinal football game. He played center.
Kristen Juras, an associate law professor at University of Montana, is trying to stop the Montana Kaimin from publishing its first weekly sex column, according to the Kaimin.
Juras told Kaimin editor Bill Oram “Bess Sex Column,” written by student Bess Davis, is “inappropriate for college students and reflects poorly on the university’s School of Journalism and UM itself.”
“Fast and Furious” opened to a record-breaking $70 million, a figure that exceeds the opening grosses of the three previous films. The film marks the return of actor Vin Diesel to a series apparently too lazy to bother adding a number after Furious or come up with a clever title. (What? Nowhere to go after the groundbreaking 2 Fast 2 Furious?)
Much of the conversation surrounding the surprising success of this new film has focused on Diesel’s return to the franchise.
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