Senior Mark Keller spent the first part of the summer of 2012 hitchhiking his way from Hillsdale, Mich. to Hillsboro, Wisc. — an adventure that included a free tattoo from one of his rides. The eighth and last person Keller thumbed a ride from on that trip, a tattoo artist from Gelena, Ill., offered him...
There is a wheeled craze on campus, and it has taken many guys by force, no matter how hard they fall. The phenomena of skateboarding, longboarding, penny boarding — the whole gamut — exploded across campus this semester. Junior Whittaker Dunn, the veteran boarder that many newer skateboarders credit as their inspiration to start boarding,...
South of Botswana, Africa, near the Limpopo River is the Eland ranch, an expansive game reserve on a plateau high above the city of Johannesburg. The land here is covered in Acacia trees, bush veldt, and thorny waitabit bushes. Sophomore Marshall Gobba is stalking a herd of blue wildebeests. The wind has changed several times...
You wouldn’t know that the waitress recommending fish was in the midst of gaining full custody of her son. Or that the hostess has been widowed for five years. Or that the server bussing tables is a recovering alcoholic. When Jack Mosely opened Tastes of Life this summer, his primary motive was not to bring...
Her father calls her “the human cyclone” that runs around his shop. The employees love her even though she has the propensity to “fire them” if they don’t give her pickles on demand. The customers laugh as they hand their money over to the little girl helping at the cash register of Oakley! Deli. Eight-year-old...