Campus Life

  • Deadline leniency displays empathy

    e’ve heard it said all our lives. Our elementary school teachers warned us about the horrors that await us in middle school. Our middle school teachers preached how kind they were compared to the harrowing high school teachers. But when we got there we realized that we could handle the pressures of high school just

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  • Parody Twitter accounts generate debate

    Parody Twitter accounts generate debate

    Almost all of us are on social media these days. Whether it is Facebook, Instagram, Vine or Tumblr, you have probably have used all of these sites at one time or another. Twitter seems to be the most popular social media website for college students, ever since our relatives decided to get Facebook accounts and

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  • Traditional means of testing students doesn’t account for all kinds of intelligence

    Traditional means of testing students doesn’t account for all kinds of intelligence

    ll this time, have we been evaluating intelligence the wrong way? Middle school and high school were all about being taught to the test. The advent of standardized testing ensured that students were no longer learning for the sake of learning, but learning to make their school look good in comparison to others so they’d

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  • Letter to the editor argues laptops unnecessary in class

    After reading last week’s article, “Laptops, tablets acceptable note-taking resources in class,” I decided the alternate viewpoint needed to be discussed. By college, one can make decisions for him or herself; hopefully, these will be good decisions. Taking one’s laptop to class is a decision that students make everyday, but rarely think about. Are there

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  • Letter to the editor argues for complete intolerance of sexual abuse

    all is upon us once again. The leaves are turning. The air is cooling. The color of pink adorns the campus, reminding everyone that October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. But let us not forget the purple ribbons that remind us that October is also Domestic Violence Awareness month. Among the many issues raised during

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  • iOS7 update represents materialism ingrained in technology-based culture

    iOS7 update represents materialism ingrained in technology-based culture

    Just about everyone knows, Apple recently released its newest mobile operating system, iOS7. While the loyal Apple fans downloaded the operating system as soon as possible, I was not so eager to do so.  I was happy with iOS6 and didn’t feel the need to upgrade; however, at the behest of my roommates, I did

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  • Joining too many extracurricular activities has its downside

    As college students, we are trained to work incessantly towards a purpose; we are taught that we must configure our lives in such a way that they catalyze our careers.  How can we catalyze our careers to embody the purpose of our lives? How might we plan for the future without limiting our activities for

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  • Wearing Blue Jay-themed shirts demonstrates school pride

    Wearing Blue Jay-themed shirts demonstrates school pride

    hen your clothes start spilling out over the top of your laundry basket, you know what time it is: laundry time. I procrastinate on doing my laundry so often that I’m regularly forced to examine the shirts that I wouldn’t typically wear. I dig through my dresser to find some articles of clothing suitable for

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  • DeNiro leads star cast in ‘The Family’

    DeNiro leads star cast in ‘The Family’

    obsters have a way of dealing with problems the dirty, family way. They can’t help that it’s in their nature to do so with explosives, baseball bats or dragging someone behind a car. Mix that with dark comedy and family psychodynamics, and it becomes an intriguing mixture with memorable moments, known as  “The Family.” The

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