Thursday, May 22, 2008

Touching The Void

By Sam Buntz, Contributing Columnist

I’ve recently experienced my first Green Key weekend, and I have to say that it was a weekend like any other weekend, except longer and with more ennui. All of the campus publications ruminate on the meaning of Green Key, as if booze and casual sex were not ends in themselves. If Homecoming is about touching the fire, Green Key is about touching the void. Nonetheless, it has inspired me to take up my keyboard and write something. We cover the death of Romance very often in these pages, but do we ever cover our own coverage of the death of Romance or muse on why we are so concerned with it? We keep getting dragged back to the same old turf, over and over again. More »

Filling Their Shoes

By Jordan Osserman, Contributing Columnist

There are a number of privileges that we freshmen get to enjoy for just three terms: We can suck at pong, be unabashedly promiscuous and go frat hopping in obnoxious groups of 15, just to name a few. More »