Opinion
As students on college campuses across the country ease back into school to begin classes this fall, Congress will vote on one of the most detrimental pieces of federal legislation to face students in...
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I'm optimistic. Our leaders cannot get any more corrupt and evil. Surely they've hit rock bottom, which means there's nowhere to go but up for our conservative rulers. Oh, but it's so cute to see them...
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If there were a Hall of Fame for Political Corruption, Tom Delay would be the House Majority Leader. The senator is putting up first ballot Hall of Fame numbers this year, wowing liberals and conserva...
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Before allowing us to sign on the dotted line so that he might begin to take from us every dollar potentially earned this school year, the owner of the apartment building in which I now live solicited...
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I was propositioned Saturday night. My boyfriend and I met up with a group of friends. One was a member of a fraternity, so he suggested we go back to his frat house. After watching a few rounds of be...
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I'm writing in response to Adam Wenger's rant, "Today's Cinema Doesn't Compare to 90s Blockbusters" (Daily Nexus, Oct. 3, 2005). Actually, I'm only using it as a springboard into a different, tangenti...
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You know who he is. That dude, the one who thinks of nothing except the cute neighbor that might hook up with him if he gets her drunk enough or who's going to buy him beer. The guy with nothing reall...
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October is always the most demanding time of the year for the 'human. Not only are there countless birthdays to be recognized (happy B-Day little 'human bro), there is the Major League Baseball playof...
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The summer after my senior year of high school, my father told me, "Chris, get the hell up off that couch, put some goddamn pants on and get a job." I tried to drown him out by turning up the volume o...
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You know who she is. That girl. The hippie. The activist. The evangelical Christian. The one who always prattles on and on about the deeper meaning of things. We all know someone like her, someone who...
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I will never get laid in I.V. again. No really, it's just not going to happen. It's OK, I'm not too worried about it. Because the following argument is the same as dumping the check on your date. It's...
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Comedy. Drama. Romance. The closest thing to porn on TV before 11 p.m. With all of this going for it, I can't help but wonder: can there possibly be a better show than "Sex and the City"?
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If you had to pack up your life in a single suitcase what would you take? At 3 a.m. yesterday, my friend Carly, an Oak Park resident, learned she had to pack what she could because her neighborhood wa...
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Who's the big college student? Yesh you are. Yesh you are.
Who's the big independent person doing whatever they want in class, like reading the 'human? Yesh you are. Yesh you are.
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Ride through the bike path without crashing
Find a seat at the red couches on the second floor of the library
Sunrise and sunset dip on the same day
Find parking on Del Playa Drive
Drunk for 24 hours
Bagel crawl
First pick at an Arbor muffin in the morning
Participate in a mosh pit at a band show
Finally talk to their class crush
Get an earlier pass time than their friends in GOLD
Graduate
Successfully walk through I.V. without seeing an old hookup
