Every day, more and more harrowing and horrifying tales are coming out of Indiana and Kentucky. According to the National Weather Service, at least 30 tornadoes descended and scarred the landscape on Friday.
Where else would I go to write a column about how fantastic Starbucks is than the excellent establishment itself? I walked in, was greeted with a warm smile and the uniquely delicious smell of slightly burnt coffee combined with the sound of brewing coffee pots and lightly-playing hipster music. I ordered my favorite winter drink (grande skinny vanilla latte) and began to write about how Starbucks is the best place to get coffee on campus. To start off, Starbucks is much more than just a counter where you order a drink and wait in a disorganized mob until your drink is prepared.
So before I get started I have to make sure you all know what you're getting into by reading this piece: I'm weird as can be when it comes to food.
I don't usually get coffee in the morning but when I do...wait, scratch that ? I always get coffee in the morning, and when I do, I prefer to drink the delicious, well-priced coffee of Tim Hortons. Tim Hortons products have been consistently tasty since the shop opened in 1964.
So before I get started I have to make sure you all know what you're getting into by reading this piece: I'm weird as can be when it comes to food.
College students stereotypically live off Ramen noodles and instant mac and cheese. It's safe to say cooking is not our forte.
I don't know if I've ever seen a better way to cap off a regular season than the completely perfect experience that was the men's basketball game Saturday night. There was something special about how it all went down, and I couldn't ask for anything more from both the team and the crowd. Mitchell Watt being hoisted on the shoulders of the hundreds of students on the court and carried off as a hero as chants of "M-V-P" reverberated through the arena was incredible. In my four years here I've always envisioned Alumni Arena that way ? packed out to near capacity, with an electric feeling throughout the crowd, and that's exactly what there was on Saturday. It was amazing. There has been a lot of struggle to get fans to come out to Alumni Arena in recent years.
In America, the War on Drugs isn't a literal war. Mostly, it's a concerted effort by the federal government to take strong police action against the drug trade.
It's almost like a physical law of the universe: if you give someone a national live talk show, he or she will inevitably say something stupid and offensive.
Eight states currently allow same-sex marriage. Eighteen thousand married gay and lesbian couples reside in California, though Proposition 8 was passed, making same-sex marriages illegal. At least 131,000 gay and lesbian couples live across the U.S., according to the 2010 census (and this census was done before New York State legalized same-sex marriage this past July). And Rick Santorum wants to unmarry every last one of those couples.
In the past month, I've kissed three co-workers I had no business kissing ? all in front of a bunch of people ? and sent 34 regrettable text messages.
Most of us don't want to admit when our parents are right. We put up a huge fight and talk back in an attempt to prove a point and then it blows up in our faces.
It's been a month since the SA Senate determined that the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship was violating university and SA rules by requiring its leadership to sign a "basis of faith." This piece of IVCF's constitution forced those elected to sign a document that affirms the entire "trustworthiness and authority of" the Bible. Just in case you've missed the entire "gay marriage" debate that's been raging the past few years, there's a line in the Bible that reads "thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind: it is an abomination." Apparently, gay Christians don't exactly agree with that line. You can't really blame them for cherry picking the Bible, really.
Monday's edition of The Spectrum ran a letter from IVCF representing the club's opinion on its flagrant violation of SA rules, subsequent suspension, and outright refusal to amend its constitution despite being given months to do so.
Three wins for Rick Santorum is three too many. How and why people are continually voting ?yes' for Santorum is beyond me, but maybe it's just my uterus talking.
Sidney Crosby took two hits to the head within a week last January and symptoms of concussions have limited him to just eight games in the last 13 months. But the Pittsburgh Penguins and the NHL should continue their slow approach to Crosby's return. Love him or loathe him, Crosby is the best player in the world and his presence brings more wins to Pittsburgh and more highlights to the NHL. But Crosby is 24 years old.
It's that time of the month for your girl and that means many unfortunate things: complaints about excruciating cramps, an attitude that makes you wish you could lock her in a room and throw away the key, dealing with her desire to eat everything in sight, and more emotions than Rachel McAdams had in The Notebook. What it doesn't have to mean, though, is no sexual pleasure. I know that the thought of your hot dog anywhere near the ketchup oozing out of her sounds nauseating, but there are people that continue to take a quick ride even during menstruation, so there must be some positives to it. "Having sex during your period may help provide pain relief for menstrual cramps by providing feel-good endorphins that are released during orgasm," according to www.everydayhealth.com.
Most of the crap we witness on the Internet we just write off. Stupid videos of people dancing crazily, or silly clips of dogs taking a dump are flashed in front of our eyes, digested, and immediately forgotten. Occasionally, a video strikes the perfect balance between idiocy and offensiveness that catches the nation's collective imagination and turns "viral." Two Florida teens found that equilibrium when a video of their racist tirade made it to YouTube under the title "Racist White Teen Girls Goes On A Rant About Blacks." During the 14-minute clip, they spread hate by saying black people waste their money, and by making fun of speech habits. What's surprising isn't the gigantic backlash against the kids, that's pretty much expected at this point, but the amount of support they've received on the video.
You wake up at 7 a.m. and shut off your alarm clock as fast as possible so it doesn't wake up your roommate.
Elected officials in this nation are supposed to be the representatives of the citizens in their constituency.
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