Archive for March, 2008
Five years of war: losing what was never ours
Today marks five years since the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003. In five years, Iraq has yet to embrace the democracy we were told would follow within months of our arrival. In five years, more than 2 million Iraqi innocents have fled, some coming home to find bullets wrapped in bloody cloth on the [...]
A view of green from Ireland
A sign in the Guinness museum in Dublin reads, “Everyone’s Irish on March 17th.” Though those with no Irish heritage may agree, it is quite the conundrum; the celebration for the patron saint of the Emerald Isle is quite different when on the Emerald Isle.
Because St. Patrick’s Day fell on the Monday during Holy Week [...]
Room for intramurals to improve
I partially agree with you on the issue of intramurals, here are some examples that i found interesting:
1) Student referees tend to favor their friends and are bias, especially during basketball and football games. Just one of the reasons i have decreased my playing these sports over the past two years, and have resorted to [...]
Local artist paints a “nail” polished picture
At first look, Jansa Gopic’s paintings seem unusual to an eye searching for regular medium on canvas. Instead of working solely with oil or acrylic, Gopic’s uniqueness stems from her work with nail polish.“I paint from memory, from my imagination, but I also take a picture if I see something exceptionally beautiful and paint from [...]
Lacrosse program begins with hard work
It’s 10:00 p.m. on Aquinas’ campus and all is well. Students are buried in their studies, The Moose is providing a steady stream of caffeine, and 21 guys are running around the field house carrying sticks and yelling strange commands.
Wait, what?
It’s the Aquinas men’s lacrosse team hard at work late into the night. Unbeknownst to [...]
Editorial: Seniors should have a say in commencement speaker
You have spent the past four years, and in some cases five, putting in late hours studying, joining clubs and organizations, participating in various extracurriculars and overall making the most out of your college career. Now it is all over and you are prepared to walk down the aisle toward college commencement and the [...]
“RENT” rocks its local, applauded performance
I knew nothing about “Rent.” I hadn’t seen the movie or a staged production. I didn’t even know what the plot was about. Yet, I was moved to shill out for moderately priced tickets anyway. What would possess someone, you might ask, to purchase tickets to a musical they knew nothing about? If you assumed [...]
End of the Road: Women’s basketball loses in first round of NAIA Tournament
After a seven-game winning streak that ultimately led the Aquinas College women’s basketball team to the national tournament, the team became an unstoppable force not to be reckoned with.
Through injuries and strong competition, the team learned to play through hardship.
Although the team was defeated on the court last week in Iowa in the national tournament, [...]
What I learn from unreal reality
By now it’s old news — the writer’s strike is over and now thousands of anxious voyeuristic persons can once again live vicariously through the lives of Meredith and friends, the women of Wisteria Lane and the crime solvers of Grissom and Co.
Reality television can once again be put on the back burner and re-runs [...]
Exploring the Irish tradition
St. Patrick’s Day has come and passed, with a blink of an eye for most of us.
Most of us think of only a few things when the holiday comes around. But what tickles my fancy is a little bit of history about the Irish culture — sports style.
Sure, America is definitely the sports capital of [...]
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