Fighting to stay alert in my four-hour night class last week, I found myself perturbed by one classmate’s repetition of particular filler phrase. In response to our professor, this classmate
Category: Opinion
In an age of bloggers, pundits and hacks broadcast from coast to coast, few people seem to understand newspapers, and even fewer know the meaning of the word “bias” as
What makes a university? First there is some land. Then there are some buildings that contain classrooms, the all-important library, a dormitory for students to live, offices for faculty, staff,
One thing that has always cracked me up is people’s legitimate fear of one another. We’ve all been conditioned to “not take candy from strangers” or “stay away from the
A few weeks ago I was mindlessly browsing the racks of clothing at Forever 21 when it happened. A Nicki Minaj song came on. The lyrics of which were, “I’m
They say you can judge a man’s character by the company he keeps. If that’s true, the brothers and sisters of the University of Central Florida’s fraternities and sororities might
Bar etiquette should be required with the privilege of drinking. After polling bartenders and witnessing first handedly the obnoxious behavior of drunken patrons, I figured I’d compile a list of
They were words we had used many times before. “We’re just a student newspaper.” This time, they were used to justify misspelling a professor’s name in three different ways throughout
When I first meet people, one of my biggest fears is that they think I’m gay. Not that anything is wrong with being gay; I’m just not trying to scare
Live at home for the first year of college, they said. It will be fun, they said. Ah, commuting, such a delicate, misunderstood beast. Caught in between life on campus