Ahh, Thanksgiving (contented sigh). A time to go home, eat, relax, and if you're like us, work like madmen. And of course, it is a time to give thanks. This year, the executive board would like to thank our extremely supportive and efficient staff. Over the years, writers, editors, and photographers have come and gone, but we have to say that our current staff is without a doubt one of the most dedicated and intelligent that any of the seniors have worked with.
Drunk driving is a serious issue facing college students in America today. We have made up this fact sheet to get some information out to the Muhlenberg community about driving while under the influence. It is especially important because most of the college student population is from out-of-state where laws may be slightly different.
As a preface, I do not want to insult the music listening experience someone may encounter from an iPod but rather critique the effects that iPods have on our campus culture and on our culture as youth. I want to get across is that the overuse of iPods in our culture has created a polarization of music tastes.
Vacation can be a very hard time for Muhlenberg students. No, this is not a rant about how ridiculous it is that we get homework over vacation. The length of our vacation can be a blight on the already stressful lives of a student. Some students do not get out of class until Wednesday evening, the day before Thanksgiving.
We just read an article about a British couple that ended three years of wedded bliss after the wife Amy caught her husband David cheating on her. This may not sound out of the ordinary, but consider this: "David" the avatar was "cheating" on Amy with a fellow avatar - a prostitute.
The 2008 election has proven that it will make a permanent mark in U.S. history. America elected its first African American president, voter turnout was one of the highest in history, and Democrats had significant gains in both houses of Congress. Democrats picked up about twenty seats in the House and about four in the Senate, but the Senate races in Alaska, Minnesota, and Georgia have not yet been determined.
This past weekend a friend suggested that we start celebrating Christmas forty days early. His excitement about participating in overly-commercialized "Christmas traditions" made us look forward to the holiday but we also couldn't help but wonder how traditions such as drinking hot chocolate and dancing to non-secular seasonal music came to be associated with a Holy Christian holiday in the first place.