IT'S MID-AUGUST on the University Grounds, and you know what that means: Soul-smothering heat, bumper-to-bumper traffic on Route 29 for three straight days, and - of course - a whole new crop of fresh-faced first-years. Oh, first-years.
Unless you?ve been living under a rock, you?ve no doubt heard about the Obama?s new family pet, a Portuguese Water Dog named Bo.
As an out-of-state student, I take a lot of airplane flights. Last summer alone, I took no fewer than six international flights, each one seemingly longer and more uncomfortable than the last.
Recently, I had the privilege of watching the documentary ?Haze,? which tells the story of Gordie Bailey who died in 2004 as a freshman at the University of Colorado after consuming excessive amounts of alcohol at the Chi Psi fraternity house.
Late one cool April night, you?re seated in the Amphitheatre surrounded by a few friends and hundreds of strangers.
The pictures have been splashed across the front pages of gossip magazines across the country: shock photos of Rihanna with swollen lips and black eyes, pictures of Chris Brown with his head bowed and eyes averted, bold black headlines declaring the state of their relationship, each one contradicting the next: ?They?re Over!?, ?She?s Taking Him Back!? The media frenzy following the fight in which Brown beat up his girlfriend Rihanna has essentially stripped both singers of their dignity, exposing their relationship for criticism and commentary from the informed and absolutely clueless alike.
?Medical miracles do not happen simply by accident,? said President Barack Obama on March 9, following his decision to overturn the Bush administration?s policy restricting funding on embryonic stem cell research.
Nearly six years ago, an American surge towards the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad marked the start of the war on terror and created a panic that left Iraq?s National Museum looted and destroyed, its hallowed halls dark and dusty and its displays empty behind shattered glass panels.
IF YOU?RE an out-of-state student at the University, chances are that when you first arrived on Grounds you felt at least a tinge overwhelmed by the sheer number of students from Virginia.
I HAVE A love/hate relationship with the Amazon Kindle.If you don?t know what the Amazon Kindle is, Amazon describes it as ?a wireless reading device.? It?s about the size and shape of a book, but it functions like a handheld computer to which you can wirelessly download magazines, newspapers, ?e-books,? and other forms of electronic media.
