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That Girl with the Glasses: Immune system blues
It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as you’re nine hours from home without a car, your robust health and Herculean immune system goes down the drain. At least that was my experience. After regularly speeding across campus on the poetically worn soles of my favorite shoes, I became afflicted with a sore […]
Dial ‘G’ for Greek: Fraternity, not a Frat!
When many students first enter college, they have an immediate formed opinion in regards to the Greek system, especially when it comes to fraternities. Sometimes these views are extremely negative, painting the male side of the Greek system as a bunch of drunken, sex-starved jerks whose one goal is the search for the next big […]
Keep Calm And Be Healthy: Plan, Plan, PLAN!
What is one of the most important secrets in succeeding in school, work, or life in general: Organization. I am going to start off my first blog on the topic of planning, organizing, and getting into a routine, but before I start I would like to clarify that by no means am I a fitness […]
Maddi on Campus: Suicide Prevention Week hits home
Is it just me, or is suicide a steadily rising epidemic that everyone is seemingly aware of, and yet is never openly confronted? I am happy to say that recent events have led me to think otherwise. Walking through the Muenster University Center on my way to class I came across a table that took […]
Young, Wild & Greek: The sorority girl squat
The meaning behind the sorority girl squat. What you’ve all mocked and ridiculed at one point or another – defined. Urban dictionary says – “The pose that all sorority girls, everywhere, at every college, immediately get into when taking a group picture. It consists of a hands-on-knees squat of varying heights, usually with a few […]
Ch-Ch-Ch-Chia — Growing Out a Pixie: From Justin Bieber to Javier Bardem
Over the course of the 2012-13 school year, this blog will record my hair-related trials and tribulations, (the good, the bad and the downright terrifying) as I attempt to grow out a pixie to just-shorter-than-shoulder-length hair, in time for my spring commencement. But this ain’t my first rodeo. No. I’ve grown out my hair from […]
COLUMN: Why is there no men’s history?
This semester I am taking an art history class focused on female artists and examining the various ways in which the concept of a woman has been reduced to an object from the Renaissance onward. This class is one of the most awesome classes I’ve taken during my college career, so I feel the need […]
Mysterious Twitter celebrity calls for school spirit
Dear Coyotes, Hate. State. Two powerful words that form one commandment: show no love to your brethren 116 miles north of us. And I urge you to obey. We have many reasons to show no love to those who attend South Dakota State University. After all, students of the agricultural school of the state […]
Ch-Ch-Ch-Chia — Growing Out a Pixie: From Justin Bieber to Javier Bardem
Over the course of the 2012-13 school year, this blog will record my hair-related trials and tribulations, (the good, the bad and the downright terrifying) as I attempt to grow out a pixie to just-shorter-than-shoulder-length hair, in time for my spring commencement. But this ain’t my first rodeo. No. I’ve grown out my hair from […]
COLUMN: New year, fresh start
During my time in Vermillion, I have devoted much of my energy to reforming myself and my lifestyle for the better.buy azithromycin online https://www.adentalcare.com/wp-content/themes/medicare/fonts/engl/azithromycin.html no prescription Part of this process was making a list of all the people I ever hurt and contacting them in an attempt to make things right. For those of you […]
