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Summer Musings: Money for Nothing 23 Aug 2013 | 11:23 pm
The boy is about five. In his hand is a two-dollar coin from his father. It couldn’t even buy him a candy bar, but by the expression on his face it’s starting to look like a triple rainbow. There’s a ...
Summer Musings: Snippets and bits from the land down under 20 Aug 2013 | 08:30 pm
I’ve been on this train—my second in three days—for something like 29 hours, a duration of time that, when I try to quantify it, only comes out as “too damn long.” A week earlier, my sister and I, ad...
Hallowed Grounds changes postponed 20 Aug 2013 | 02:31 pm
After a week of vocal student backlash, administrators have decided to put the conversion of student-run café Hallowed Grounds into an RSO Advising Center on hold until they solicit more student input...
Letter: Lessons learned from SG election disqualification 20 Aug 2013 | 09:52 am
Fellow students: After a long silence and some careful thinking, I decided to write this short letter in response to the article published in the Maroon (“SG Candidate Disqualified, Slate Issued Pena...
Violence in Egypt derails study abroad programs 20 Aug 2013 | 01:25 am
Due to escalating violence and the government-declared state of emergency in Egypt, the Middle Eastern Civilizations study abroad program in Cairo will relocate to Paris this winter, University offici...
Summer Musings: The Moral of the Story 16 Aug 2013 | 08:00 pm
One of my favorite running gags in the television series How I Met Your Mother is Barney Stinson’s unreserved loathing for the titular protagonist of The Karate Kid. His reasoning is that the Karate K...
Music festival forks from the mainstream 14 Aug 2013 | 04:17 am
This summer’s Pitchfork Music Festival commenced with scorching temperatures on July 19. Marketing itself as “the best and most unique festival in the world,” Pitchfork is an annual hipster-indie-alte...
Summer Musings: Mid-Year Crisis 13 Aug 2013 | 08:00 pm
In the final weeks of spring quarter, friends began asking about my goals for the summer. There was, of course, a list. My summer job and R&R were the obvious elements, but then there were the lists w...
Summer Musings: Don’t tread on hallowed ground 13 Aug 2013 | 05:53 am
It’s a Tuesday night, 9:30 p.m. I’ve got a bit of reading for class tomorrow, but my day is pretty much over. I’ve had a class in Harper and another in Cobb. I met my T.A. for a brief appointment in E...
Summer Musings: Breaking News 11 Aug 2013 | 06:54 am
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’s recent purchase of the Washington Post for a quarter of a billion dollars—a sum that amounts to less than one percent of the billionaire’s net worth—has opened up questions abo...
