Winter means a snow-covered campus, Student Activities Board’s annual ski trip, and A.J.’s Café hot chocolate. But the winter also means icy streets and sidewalks. And although college maintenance does work hard to clear snow from and ice sidewalks, there is one path that won’t be cleared. The dirt path that students use as a...
‘Tis the season for boughs of holly, Christmas trees, and lights all aglow. But each year, the heated argument returns: should those lights be clear, or colored? Colored lights are more appropriate for the Christmas season than white lights. Colored lights are used exclusively for holiday decorating, which keeps them set apart as a sign...
If someone spends his entire day reading, he might be perceived as scholarly or cultured, but if he spent the last 48 hours binge watching a TV series, he’d probably be viewed as some sort of degenerate couch potato. People buy books just to appear smart, but people aren’t running out to red-box to impress...
Fidel Castro, the fiery revolutionary who defied American presidents for half a century as Cuba’s supreme leader and brought the world to the brink of nuclear war, is dead at age 90. His brother and successor Raul announced the death via Cuban state media Friday. “The tyrant is dead,” chanted jubilant crowds of Cuban Americans...
President-elect Donald Trump’s foreign policy views break from Republican orthodoxy, so his Secretary of State appointment should too. Trump has criticized the war in Iraq, opposed the war in Syria, and favored friendly relations with Russia. Trump needs to search beyond neoconservative Republicans to find candidates more in line with his policies. On Nov. 21,...