By Andrew Migneault on September 15, 2008
Big brother is shopping with you. Last weekend, I went into the Walgreens convenience store in my town to develop a roll of film that I had exposed during my vacation on Cape Cod. I filled out the form, got out my money, and waited to hand a coupon to the sales clerk when she [...]
Posted in National | Tagged September 2008, Volume VII Number I
By Andrew Migneault on May 8, 2008
The dance was slated to begin at 6:00 p.m. sharp on Friday, April 18. The time was relatively early compared to the dances most students partake in at Brown University. This particular instance, however, would not feature some student DJ showcasing his iTunes library, or a bar with one dollar drinks in a crowded room. [...]
Posted in Lead, Local | Tagged May 2008, Volume VI Number VII
By Andrew Migneault on April 17, 2008
BCA is a business, and its private decisions regarding fairness are its own business. Once the tickets are sold, they are in a free market.
In nearly all of the heated discussions ensuing after the last tickets to Spring Weekend were sold, I noticed that most people’s opinions were largely devoid of one underlying consideration: capitalism. [...]
Posted in Brown University | Tagged April 2008, Volume VI Number VI
By Andrew Migneault on March 21, 2008
Too many times have I heard the gripe, “I wish our University would stop acting like it is so poor.” I had to laugh when I saw the heaping pile of booklets stacked up next to the newspapers in the Mail Room. Despite the best efforts put forth by the University to get all of [...]
Posted in Brown University | Tagged March 2008, Volume VI Number V
By Andrew Migneault on December 6, 2007
Emotions were strong at the SexPowerGod debate on November 6th. There were heated shouts from the back row, sarcastic comments from every aisle, and an overwhelming feeling that the two opponents of the dance had not the slightest chance of changing the minds of anybody in the audience; they knew that the audience would not [...]
Posted in Brown University | Tagged December 2007, Volume VI Number III
By Andrew Migneault on October 26, 2007
How do you define racism? If you answer that question in a literal sense, racism is “the belief that people of different races have different qualities and abilities, and that some races are inherently superior or inferior.” In today’s day and age, most of us (hopefully) know and believe that this is not true, that [...]
Posted in Brown University, Lead | Tagged October 2007, Parents’ Weekend, Volume VI Number II
