Semester grades
Lisa Viers and Tyler Hoffman
April 26, 2013
Filed under Editorial, Opinion
A: Accomplishment on the horizon: The Tinkham Veale University Center is one step closer to completion with an event being held today to celebrate the final construction of the steel-beam frame. Progress on the new center has been steady since the digging began in 2012, and it looks like this Cleveland... Read more »
The original drone strike debate
Andrew Breland
April 26, 2013
Filed under Headlines, Opinion
The Elephant in the Room As one of very few conservative Republican columnists in academia, most will expect this column to function as a review of a verifiably bad year for conservatives. We failed to retake the presidency, failed to retake the Senate, lost part of the majority in the House of Representatives,... Read more »
Twitter and news: a bad romance
Ashley Yarus
April 26, 2013
Filed under Headlines, Opinion
Keeping Perspective This Tuesday, the Associated Press’ official Twitter account was hacked. Hackers tweeted that there had been two explosions at the White House and that President Obama was hurt in the attack. Within minutes this claim was retweeted more than three thousand times. The AP promptly... Read more »
Homeward bound
Heather O’Keeffe
April 26, 2013
Filed under Headlines, Opinion
What a girl wants Though it snowed less than a week ago, summer is almost here. Even better, the end of the school year is coming up. On May 7, I get to say sayonara to Case Western Reserve University and pile the contents of my dorm into the car. If I can afford any time during final exams maybe... Read more »
Our dirty little secret
Tyler Hoffman, Executive Editor
April 19, 2013
Filed under Editorial, Opinion
The emails I receive as a newspaper editor are sometimes relevant, usually lengthy, and always entertaining. This past week, as I was navigating press releases announcing everything from apple butter stirring festivals to nursing home trivia contests, an interesting one caught my eye. The RecyleMania... Read more »
Mind your T’s and Q’s
Kyle Patterson, Web Manager
April 19, 2013
Filed under Headlines, Opinion
Family Matters Today marks the seventeenth year of the widely-known Day of Silence, a student-led program established in 1996 at the University of Virginia. The day of activism, involving a 24-hour vow of silence, calls to attention the silent troubles faced by countless students who are assaulted... Read more »
Immigration deformed: reform stalls over policy differences
Evan Wilson
April 19, 2013
Filed under Headlines, Opinion
Fairly Unbalanced Since losing the 2012 elections, in part due to lackluster support from minority voters, the GOP has decided it needs to make immigration reform a key issue and do more than propose building a big fence. Republican Senators McCain, Rubio, Graham, and Flake joined Democrats Schumer,... Read more »
Letter to the Editor
April 19, 2013
Filed under Letters to the Editor, Opinion
With the recent uproar due to disturbing responses by some to the Steubenville rape case, the knowledge of the general population about sexual assault has been called into question. As a founding member and former president of Case Western Reserve University’s Sexual Assault and Violence Educators... Read more »
A little teapot in Texas
Aditya Rengaswamy
April 19, 2013
Filed under Headlines, Opinion
Strange Architecture Exploring the world through food and architecture has always been an interest of mine. I hope to find time soon where I can travel the world, sample cuisines from various cultures, see magnificent structures created by man, and dive deep into bizarre sensations. This desire has... Read more »
Fed up and still hungry
Tyler Hoffman, Executive Editor
April 12, 2013
Filed under Editorial, Opinion
A perusal through the Undergraduate Student Government’s Moderator web page reveals an interesting snapshot of what irks students on an average day at Case Western Reserve University. Think the Greenie system is too slow? That’s on there. Wish certain buildings had more seating? So does somebody... Read more »