Tired athletes, ravenous snackers and generally everyone who missed the 7:30 Ratty/V-Dub deadline descended as usual upon Josiah’s on the evening of Friday, September 25th. Walking through the doors they were first greeted by displays of balloons, and as they wondered what was going on while they waited innocently in line for their hamburgers, they [...]

One quiet country evening, I convinced my trusty amigo Travis to join me in the long country drive to the nearest picture show to see Pineapple Express. “So what’s this movie about?”,Travis asked. Eager to appear hip to someone fresh from a summer at UT Austin, an Indie-culture-saturated university, I pretended to have heard Pineapple [...]

On January 11, 2007, China, after a few misses, succeeded in blowing up one of their own low flying weather satellites, proving an intent toward scientific development that could one day challenge that of the United States. From March 2007 to 2008, there have been 12 arrests charging Chinese and Chinese-Americans with espionage against the [...]

On February 21, 2008, the seats in Salomon 101 quickly filled, as the attendees anticipated seeing former United Nations ambassadors John Bolton and Richard Holbrooke ‘62 duke it out over the importance of an organization “criticized as an irrelevant…debating society.” Or, at least, Janus Forum leader Jess Maddox ‘08 told the audience this was the [...]