Open Heart, Elie Wiesel’s account of his 2011 bypass surgery, should be the next book you read. While it is light in physical weight (fewer than 100 pages), this work packs a massive emotional punch. Wiesel, who wrote Night, about his time in the hell of Nazi concentration camps, again reflects on facing the abyss-this…
On General Tso’s day, our dining hall becomes chaotic. Eager to receive our share of this highly-demanded dish, not many of us think about the horrors these animals suffered for us to get their meat. Paul McCartney, an animal rights activist, urges people to consider the meat they are eating: “If slaughterhouses had glass walls,…
After the boys varsity basketball team’s 54-38 win over Bexley, many students made their way to the dining hall for karaoke night, which the Service Board sponsored to raise money for Faculty and Staff Appreciation Day. Although in the beginning it seemed anticlimactic in comparison to the exciting basketball game, as the event continued, students…
Released on December 14 to much media hype, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey has skyrocketed in the box office to over $886 million in its first month. Directed by Peter Jackson and based off the book The Hobbit, by J. R. R. Tolkien, it has a larger budget (around $250 million) than any of the…
If you have walked around campus at all lately, you have seen it: students taking ugly “selfies” on their phones. You may have been asked what you are doing when you willingly pose for an unattractive picture. Why would anyone want to let others see these ugly photos? Aren’t there hundreds of apps allowing people…
Released in October of 2012, Argo was director Ben Affleck’s third film. With a budget of just over $44 million, the film starred Affleck as a CIA exfiltration expert, Bryan Cranston as his supervisor, John Goodman as a Hollywood makeup artist, and Alan Arkin as a major film producer. The film is based on a…
For those of you who have spoken to any teenage girl at some point within the past week, you’ve probably heard, One Direction’s new album has been released. The hit British boy band just released its new album, Take Me Home, Tuesday, November 13th. The album consists of 13 tracks ranging from sappy, slow tunes…
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