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What’s underneath the plaid shirt?

A fashion war has erupted on campus — and everyone’s losing. With an early spring turned to almost summer, polo tees or some skimpy combination of sports gear, leggings, jeggings or sundresses are back. If you’re not wearing that ensemble, you’re likely a gussied-up, thrift-store monstrosity best left on The Sartorialist blog. It’s prep vs. [...]

Spend education funds on defense

School is irrelevant. Education? A thing of the past. Anyone can see the future of America is war. This inspiration came to me at the Career Fair. Careers that stuck out were of a warlike nature — the armed forces or CIA. Take your pick. Then it hit me: with troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, [...]

Tips for survival after graduation

I suffer from the lamentable and incurable affliction of being a journalist. Even worse, I have no choice now but to get off my duff and get a job writing. “But isn’t print dead?” asks the tech-savvy who think it is. Well, it may be. After a summer internship at Emory Health Magazine, writing intensive classes [...]

Technology hurts our relationships

I’m out of the loop. No tweets. No Tumblr. I don’t Facebook stalk my friends as much as they stalk me. Worlds of opportunity are passing me by as my fellow 20-somethings tap furiously at their touch screens, networking at the speed of light. Modern life for them has become instant. But their rapid-fire world [...]

Relationship between U.S. and Iran too complex to heal grievances

Last week, Rocky Cole suggested that U.S. involvement in developing Iranian nuclear programs would ensure that Iran did not develop nuclear weapons and possibly create an economic partnership that would begin to heal grievances between the two nations. This idea is overly simplistic.