Opinion
In Bed with Billy: Selecting Classes and Men
|By Billy Curtis, Sex Columnist
Selection can be a really important thing. Whether you’re choosing your classes for an upcoming semester or the right guy to date; your choice can make all the difference.
As class registration opened this past week for the spring semester, I began thinking about how important these options can be.
Detroit’s For Sale, But Nobody’s Buying: Michigan Making Up for Economy by State Sale
|By Brandon Minster, Staff Writer
About once a week, I have a serious discussion with myself that starts with, what do I want to be when I grow up? And usually near the top of my list is auctioneer.
The career combines the best of all other jobs. Fast, unintelligible talking, “do I hear five, five, five, do I hear wharlgurlgarble hamanahamana”, but at a much higher wage than working a fast food restaurant.
Describing people’s shameful character traits, “sold to the obese, balding woman in the back row,” but with more regular gigs than an insult comic.
South Africa Welcomes the FIFA World Cup: The Value of Soccer on an International Stage
|By Justin Lalputan, Broadside Correspondent
There are only two sporting events in the world that cause nearly every single country to stop what they are doing to watch, and both occur every four years. One is the Olympics, which occurs during the winter and summer.
The other is the FIFA World Cup. Many people, especially Americans, dismiss it as a simple soccer game, but it is far from that.
The World Cup is a large-scale soccer tournament that can have effects that many world leaders wish they could conjure.
Meal Plan Limitations: Why Eating Off Campus Should be Easier
By Kenny Tindal, Broadside Correspondent
Throughout my freshman year, when we were still allowed to have the Freedom meal plan, I wished I could use my money off campus. Even now there are many nights where I opt to stay on campus and eat at Taco Bell than go out to Old Town or University Mall because my Freedom was so high, but my wallet was so thin.
Weapons of Mass Employment: Finding the Perfect Job, in a Not-So-Perfect Economy
By Brandon Minster, Broadside Correspondent
President Barack Obama has a lot on his plate. Between adjudicating misdemeanors in Cambridge, Mass., opining about the proceedings at the MTV Video Music Awards, demonizing a non-friendly news agency, and advocating for a college football playoff, no one can really blame the man if unemployment is on its way past 10 percent. Clearly he’s busy.
Possible Smoking Ban on Campus: Students Have a Right to Smoke if They Choose
By William Curtis, Opinion Editor
I can never say which is my favorite, the after-eating cigarette, the while-drinking-coffee cigarette or the after-crapping cigarette. They all manage to calm me down and make everything better. Over the span of time, the sanctity of cigarette smoking was so well-accepted that in a world I can never imagine . . . you could even smoke on a plane during a flight. Now, the times have clearly changed.
Politics in the Classroom: Are Professors Just Personal Agenda Pushers?
By Alan Moore, Broadside Correspondent
Since coming to George Mason University, I have been shocked and appalled at the number of professors who are more concerned with pushing their own political agenda than actually teaching.
The Absence of Letters to the Editor
By Evan Benton, Staff Writer
While editing the Opinion section two weeks ago, I noticed a glaring omission, something even a casual reader of the Broadside Opinion section would notice the lack of: no letter to the editor.
There’s a reason why I, in particular, noticed its absence.
The Letter to the Editor section is a magical section. It allows anyone, even those that wish to remain anonymous, to say anything their little hearts desire.
Sexy or Scary: What to Wear for Halloween?
By Stephanie Tran, Broadside Correspondent
What’s the first thing that you think of when someone says “Halloween”? Probably orange and black, haunted houses, candy and of course, costumes. Pretty innocent, right? Sure, except that while browsing for costumes in a store or online, you’ll see several blatantly sexy costumes being sold. Of course, costume companies market these costumes towards adult women and teenage girls, but the funny thing is that, well, isn’t Halloween supposed to be scary, not sexy?