“How dare you give me a multisyllabic word? Can’t you see I’m a scholar but not a nerd?” When senior English major Keyona Shabazz asked for topics as she freestyled in front of her peers, one student called out suggestions from fish to armadillos to that multisyllabic juggernaut: “Constitution.” Last night, students gathered in the Formal Lounge for an evening...
Culture
Show me the upgrade: iPhone puts the ‘fun’ in functional
Apple sells 395 iPhones every minute, according to the website everysecond.io. Last week, when Apple released its newest iPhone model, there weren’t enough to meet the demand. Before the phones could hit the shelves on Sept. 7, Apple had run out of the iPhone 7 Plus, as well as the jet black version of the iPhone 7. Localytics, the leading...
The Clintons’ character catastrophe
From Whitewater, to Lewinsky, to Benghazi, and finally to Emailgate, Bill and Hillary Clinton have been embroiled in national scandals for almost 30 years. Former United States Secret Service officer Gary Byrne unleashes on the Clintons in “Crisis of Character,” a tell-all book published by the Hachette Book Group in June 2016, making the moral and practical case against...
“Batman Begins” discussion of justice and politics
Students and faculty grappled over justice with Batman and the Pi Sigma Alpha politics honorary Sept. 27 as part of an ongoing series discussing political themes such as justice, corruption, and the rule of law through the lens of the popular Batman trilogy. “I thought the Batman trilogy might be helpful and useful,” said Adam Carrington, assistant professor of politics...
