2008 Woodie Awards
The first time I heard homosexuality was wrong was on the steps of my great-grandmother's house. She was sick, and the family had gathered. I was in sixth grade, and my older cousin told me God didn't like homosexuals. He told me the story of Sodom and Gomorrah proved God didn't like gays.
At the beginning of the semester, I gave you a nonfiction reading list to get you started for your college course, "Pillow Talk 201: Things you should know but are too nervous to look up at Cook Library." We are nearing the close of our semester and so it is time for your fiction reading list of erotica.
How many of us have actually questioned a Muslim about their beliefs? Not many I would imagine. Yet, we all feel like we know something about how they live and what they believe. The fact is, a lot of the information we have about Muslims and Islam is simply hearsay which leaves us wide open for miscommunication and misunderstanding.
If ever there were a need for angry, anti-establishment music devoid of holes filled by nose rings and tongue studs, it would be now. One would think amidst one of the most criticized administrations in the history of the White House someone with the energy and passion to provide an unabashed middle finger for authority would be doing so with the support of a heavy sound and millions of angry fans.
The Student Printz is hiring for the position of the next executive editor, my current job. Only two people have applied so far. This is one of those jobs no one can describe to you. Going in, I asked everyone I could what to expect. Most people compared it to something like a traffic cop or a proofreader.
You have probably used the service Turnitin.com. It is a plagiarism detection program that analyzes documents and spits out a judgment as to whether the paper has been copy and pasted. It has been required for most of my classes since I first came here a few years ago.
There are some who believe respect is a moral obligation, but those same people disprove themselves by making personal attacks in an attempt to discredit this opinion. All they do is prove they have to neither respect, nor adopt my views on life and have provided me with more proof in the matter.
It seems to me that lately everybody is set on denouncing someone else for their opinion or their ideas or their beliefs (i.e. Pillow Talk, etc.). Of course the popular response is that the first amendment ensures their right to speak their mind in a public forum.
Every election that comes and goes shows candidates that are becoming increasingly farther right wing and increasingly farther left. For example; in the upcoming presidential election we have Barock Obama on the left who supports partial birth abortions and all but banning guns, on the right we have Mitt Romney who is a border line libertarian that supports cutting back welfare to almost non-existence and shutting down the Mexican border to all but a select few elite.
After losing my wallet, money, debit cards, etc. all I really have to say is this: price of a MS replacement license: $5 price of a replacement USM student ID: $15 Does anyone else think this is a little ridiculous? Maybe it is because I am on an extremem
