With summer coming to a close, my friends and I took a trip to Port Aransas. I drove more than 500 miles that weekend and with about five miles to go on the way home I received a ticket for "failure to slow or evacuate lane for an emergency vehicle." The "emergency vehicle" in question was an unmarked police car. After some time on the Wikipedia ... [Read More…]

I can appreciate random and outrageous displays on campus from people who boldly go where no others dare to go. Asking permission and then commencing to tackle someone else's snowman in front of them, especially after having watched them labor to construct it, takes a special kind of person. You have to smile when you see a student in the library ... [Read More…]

The hardest part about my job as managing editor is writing headlines. Well, that and making sure all my minions get their stories in on time. Designing pages is difficult as well. So is ping-pong. But headlines are the worst. They never fit. The best trick is finding words that are very short but carry a lot of meaning. Sometimes I get so ... [Read More…]

I am a graphic design major. I came into college as a speech pathology major, which - don't get me wrong - is an amazing field. I just could not see myself doing it every day for the rest of my life. When I made the big switch, I realized I was going from a scientific, clinical profession to a purely creative one. So I began taking art classes. ... [Read More…]

The American flag Buzz Aldrin planted on our moon isn't there anymore. The extreme heat, cold and UV rays probably shredded it. The hardware-store quality flag a secretary ran out to get one afternoon in 1968 is just gone. Ten million years from now evidence of the flag, the footprints and three golf balls won't exist. Our flag wasn't taken ... [Read More…]